Obituary by Uriah Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 27, 1883

Obituary

By Uriah Smith

JONES—Died of consumption and cancer, in Monterey, Mich., Aug. 20, 1883, Orrin B. Jones, aged fifty-eight years. Bro. Jones was born in Onondaga County, N. Y., in 1825. He early removed to Michigan, locating first in Marshall, and then in Monterey, where he has lived more or less at intervals to the present time. When the present truth was preached there in 1857, he readily embraced it, and remained one of the staunchest of its friends to the close of his life. His ability as carpenter and builder was soon called into requisition in connection with this cause, commencing with the erection of the first brick Office building, after the formation of the Publishing Association, in 1861. He has since had charge of the erection of two other brick Office buildings, the third Battle Creek meeting-house, the Sanitarium, and the College, besides many residences for the Educational Society and for individuals. Two years he spent on the Pacific Coast, having charge of the erection of the San Francisco meeting-house, the meeting-house in Oakland, Cal., and the Office of Publication in the latter place. Thoroughness and faithfulness characterized all his work, and he was generous almost to a fault. Though feeling the affliction of being deprived of the privilege of active labor, which was his delight, yet through all the period of his confinement, commencing last spring, and in all his sufferings which at the last were extremely severe, not an impatient or murmuring word was heard to escape his lips. He leaves a wife, two sons, five brothers, and a sister, and many to whom he was dear in the ties of Christian love, to mourn his loss. The funeral was attended by a large congregation in the meeting-house at Monterey, August 22.

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