p. 287 | Obituary by Jasper G. Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 22, 1882

Obituary

By Jasper G. Smith

SMITH.—Died in Williams, Colusa Co. Cal., May 30, 1882, my wife, Annie M. Smith, aged 21 years and 10 months. Two years ago she took cold, which settled on her lungs, terminating in that dreaded disease, consumption. In 1876 she united with the M. E. Church, South, at Santa Rosa. She believed in the near coming of Jesus; and after a careful study of the Bible, and writings on both sides of the Sabbath question, she commenced to observe the seventh-day Sabbath in November, 1881. She was a great reader of the Bible, and loved God's people. She bore her sufferings with Christian patience, and expressed a willingness to die. Funeral sermon by Rev. Atkinson, of the M. E. Church. Text, "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." Jasper G. Smith.