p. 119 | Obituary Notices

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 29, 1870

Obituary Notices.

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

Died, in Albany, Wis., Feb. 11, 1870, of consumption, my dear wife, Jane Francis, daughter of Benjamin and Jane Swancutt, aged 30 years, 4 months, and 28 days.

At the age of 12, she joined the Primitive Methodist church. In 1858, we were both buried in baptism. In 1865, under the labors of Eld. Ingraham, she commenced keeping the Sabbath, and has been a member of the S. D. A. church of Albany, Wis., since its organization. She was a tender mother, a good, loving wife. She leaves a husband and four children to mourn her loss. WM. FRANCIS.

Also, died in Albany, Wis., Feb. 11, 1870, Benj. Swancutt, jr., aged 32 years 3 months and 10 days, only twenty-three hours after his sister, Jane Francis. His disease was inflammation of the bowels. He leaves a wife and five children to mourn his loss. Both funerals met at the graveyard, where we laid them both away to wait the coming of the Lifegiver, whose voice will open the graves of all his, and bring them forth clothed with immortality.

Funeral sermon by Eld. E. J. Meredith, Methodist. WM. FRANCIS.

Died, in Chelsea, Mass., of bilious fever, March 11, 1870, Sr. Belinda Chick, aged 65 years. She embraced the present truth last summer, and was earnest and consistent in this, as she ever had been in the light she had enjoyed as a member of the Freewill Baptist church. One of the best of companions and mothers has fallen asleep in Christ, leaving a husband and five children to mourn her loss. May they be led by her godly example and dying admonitions, to make such a preparation that they with her may share the reward of eternal life.

Words of consolation were spoken by the writer, from Rev. 14:13. M. E. CORNELL.

In sorrow and sadness we lay her away, For a dreamless repose in the lone, quiet tomb, While striving in humble submission to say, The will of our Father in Heaven be done.

But with the loved sleeper we know it is well; Her rest will be sweet till Jesus shall come, When she shall awaken with rapture to swell The glad song of triumph o'er death and the tomb. A. M. A.C.

Died, in Viola, Iowa, March 15, 1870, of scarlet fever, Esther Barnard, eldest daughter of Truman, and Anna Barnard, aged 14 years. Truly, as James says, our life is “even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” N. BLOOD.