p. 103 | Obituary Notices

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

Obituary Notices.

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

DIED, in Burlington, Mich., March 2, 1870, Sr. Susan Jones, aged 60 years and 13 days. Sr. Jones embraced the faith of the third angel's message when Bro. Bates and myself went with the tent to Burlington, in 1857. She lived a consistent, Christian life; was very punctual in her attendance at the meetings of the church, and her testimony for the truth was never lacking. In this respect she presented a worthy example. Her husband went to California at an early period of emigration thither, and is supposed to have been murdered, as no tidings have been received of him for a number of years; this made her life one of care and hardship. Her labor for her family was untiring, and she lived to see several of her children walking in the truth. May they be steadfast therein as she was, and all meet in the morning of the first resurrection. Sermon by the writer, on 2 Cor. 4: 17, 18. J. H. WAGGONER.

DIED, in this city, Jan. 31, 1870, of pulmonary consumption, William Bixby, aged 63 years. Mr. Bixby was taken violently sick with inflammation of the lungs something over a year ago, from which he never fully recovered, but was able to be about during most of the past summer. The disease finally culminated in consumption, and he was confined to his bed some four weeks before his death. He died the death of a Christian.—Owatonna (Minn.) Journal.

Bro. Bixby was a firm believer in present truth, and a consistent Sabbath-keeper; and in conversation with the writer during his illness he expressed his faith in the nearness of the fifth kingdom in the strongest terms. W. SUTLIFF.