p. 71 | Obituary Notices by Roswell F. Cottrell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 15, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 35, Nos. 8 & 9.

Obituary Notices.

By Roswell F. Cottrell

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

FELL asleep, in Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 22, 1870, our beloved brother, J. B. Lamson, of Rochester, N. Y., aged 41 years. From apparent health, a few weeks of sickness closed his mortal life. Disease, quick consumption and typhoid fever. He leaves a stricken wife, but a few years since bereaved of a kind father (Bro. J. T. Orton,) by the pitiless hand of a murderer, and two children, father and mother, brothers and sisters, and numerous friends, to mourn his loss; but not without hope; for they feel the blessed assurance that he sleeps in Jesus. He loved the truth; and while he was striving to renewedly consecrate himself to God, and prepare for future usefulness, we believe he was ripening to sleep the “blessed sleep.” The church in Rochester is deprived again of one of its most efficient members, and all the churches in this part of the State mourn with them.

The funeral was held in Rochester. Text, Ps. 103:13–18. We laid him away in Mount Hope, to await the coming of the Lifegiver, whose voice, we believe, will soon open this grave, and others in this cemetery, and bring forth the silent and peaceful sleepers clothed in immortal bloom. R. F. COTTRELL.