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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 6, 1868

Obituary Notices.

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.

DIED in Battle Creek, Mich., June 25, 1868, Sr. ELECTA PRATT, aged 90 years, 6 months, and 14 days. The deceased, Electa Hubbard, was born in Sunderland, Mass., Dec. 11, 1777. Her husband, William Pratt, was a soldier in the war of 1812, living at that time near Buffalo, N. Y. They afterward removed to Huron Co., Ohio, and from there to Kalamazoo Co., Mich., where he died in 1848. Since that time to the time of her death she has lived with her son, Bro. Edward Pratt, now of this place. She embraced the truth of the Sabbath about five years ago; though in her “second childhood,” she seemed to lay hold of the truth with all the strength left her by age. Hearing the family talking about the wrong of tobacco-using, and its being inconsistent with the high and holy profession of the Christian, she immediately laid aside her pipe, and broke off the habit of smoking at the age of 85—thus giving an evidence of her conscientiousness, setting an example of self-denial, and leaving a standing reproof to the strong and vigorous who daily with depraved appetites, and plead the excuse of the strength of habit. Though very young at the time, she distinctly remembered “the dark day” of 1780, which shows how strong an impression was produced by that phenomenon, as it is well known that a very startling event is indelibly fixed on the mind of a mere child. About three years ago her eyesight returned, since which time she has been able to read without glasses. In her last sickness her senses failed one by one—her sight, speech, and hearing, each in turn being entirely lost. She appeared to be conscious very nearly to the time of her decease, and when shut out from this world, spent much of her time in prayer.

Funeral on Sabbath, 27th, at the house of worship. Discourse from Deut. v, 29. J. H. WAGGONER.

DIED, in Palmyra, Jefferson Co., Wisconsin, June 17, 1868, my brother-in-law, Seaman Christopher, in the nineteenth year of his age. He embraced the present truth last winter under the labors of Bro. R. F. Andrews and H. C. Blanchard, at Little Prairie, Wis. His sufferings were great, but he bore them all with Christian fortitude, feeling wholly resigned to the will of God. He exhorted all of his friends to meet him in the kingdom. We feel his loss, but sorrow not as those that have no hope. Remarks by Eld. J. Matteson, from Rev. xiv, 12, 13. J. W. BLAKE.