Obituary by John C. Thorp

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 22, 1881

Obituary.

By John C. Thorp

THORP.—Died of typhoid fever, at Jay Eu, Republic Co., Kansas, Nov. 8, 1881, after a long and painful illness, our beloved brother, Wilmot P. Thorp, aged 32 years, 10 months, and 16 days. The subject of this notice was converted in his youth, and united with the Missionary Baptist church, with which he remained until 1871. He then united with the First-day Adventists, and remained with them until about four years ago, when he commenced the observance of the Sabbath of the Lord, which he continued to keep until the time of his death. He came to this country eleven years ago, to secure a home, and endured all the privations and hardships peculiar to pioneer life. His life has truly been one of toil, anxiety, and care. But he rests from his labor. He leaves a wife and two children, a mother, one sister, and five brothers to mourn his loss. Again our number is broken by the tyrant death, and our brother sleeps beside his aged father. While we mourn the vacant places, we rejoice that the time is not far distant when all the righteous shall rise victorious over death and the grave. God grant that we may meet, an unbroken band, in the earth made new.

JOHN C. THORP.