Obituaries

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 17, 1903

INGALLS.—Died at Castleton, N. Y., June 10, 1902, of rheumatism of the heart, Sally M. Ingalls, aged 81 years. She was deeply interested in all the work of the third angel's message. H. H. G. INGALLS.

DAVIS.—Fell asleep in the blessed hope of a soon-coming Saviour, at Pomona, Mo., R. I. Davis, aged 79 years, 6 months, and 21 days. For twenty-five years he had been a sufferer with kidney trouble. He leaves a wife and four children to mourn their loss. GEORGE DAVIS.

CURTIS.—Died in Monica, Ill., Nov. 28, 1902, Josephine E. Curtis, aged 55 years, 3 months, and 5 days. Early in life she joined the Christian Church, later uniting with the Seventh-day Adventists, within whose fellowship she died after many years of faithful testimony to God's saving grace. WM. CURTIS.

BOYCE.—Died at Battle Creek, Mich., Dec. 18, 1902, of dropsy of the heart, Cornelius Henry Boyce, aged 64 years and 3 months. He was born in the State of New York, and moved from St. Clair County, Mich., to Battle Creek in 1899. He passed peacefully away in a full belief of a coming resurrection. Funeral service was held at his late home, December 19, and the next day the remains were taken to his former home in St. Clair County, for burial in the Memphis Cemetery. I. D. VAN HORN.

SNYDER.—Died Dec. 15, 1902, in Kalamazoo, Mich., of apoplexy, James Warren Snyder, aged 75 years, 6 months, and 19 days. For about sixty years he lived near Chelsea, Mich. Death entered his home in April, 1899, and took away his beloved wife. For nearly thirty years he had lived a Christian life. He leaves two sons and two daughters, one brother, and one sister, to mourn their loss. Their consolation and comfort is found in the promise of God. I. D. VAN HORN.

PLACE.—Died at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, Dec. 15, 1902, of dropsy and heart disease, Henrietta A. Place, wife of John Place, aged 73 years, 9 months, and 3 days. Mother was born at Clay, Onondaga Co., N. Y., March 11, 1829. She was the daughter of Elder George Blossom. She was converted when quite young, and remained true to her Lord till the close of life. In 1850 she married John Place, of Oswego, N. Y. About that time they both accepted the third angel's message, and their home was blessed more than once with the presence of Brother and Sister White, and other pioneers of the truth. For several years they lived at Southwest Oswego, N. Y. In 1860 they moved to Battle Creek, Mich., to be with their son, O. G. Place, M. D. Later on they followed him to Mount Vernon, Ohio, where two years ago they celebrated their golden wedding. For about forty years mother has suffered with heart trouble, at times very severe. Last May dropsy began to manifest itself, and since last June she was unable to lie down even for a moment. These were days and nights of trying experience, but the grace of God did not fail this dear old soul who had, like her Saviour, been made perfect through suffering; and without murmuring she gasped for breath hour after hour. Occasionally she would exclaim, “O my Saviour, if it pleases thee, let me rest; but if I must still suffer on, ‘thy will be done.’” During the month of October the writer spent two weeks by her side, almost daily and at times hourly expecting the end to come. During that time I was permitted to get a new view of the terms “mother” and “Christian.” In her death a life of devotion to God, family, and fellow man closed in beautiful triumph. The “valley of the shadow of death” was bright with hope, and she was comforted by the “rod and staff” of the One she had loved and served so long. When I left her, I knew I should not see her again in this world, but I said, “Good-by, mother, I will see you again soon;” and between her gasps, she replied, “Yes, Albert my boy, it will be but a little while, and what a meeting that will be!” My sister, Mrs. M. M. Hubbard, nursed her faithfully for months. Dr. Place came from Boulder, Colo., twice to help her, and was with her at the time of her death. This is the first time in fifty years that death has come to our family circle, and now father, in his seventy-ninth year, and two sons, and two daughters remain to mourn the loss, and sacredly to cherish the memory, of wife and mother. For years we have been a united family in this precious truth, and our sorrow is brightened with the expectation of the union in the eternal kingdom, where “there shall be no pain and no death.” The funeral was held at father and mother’s home on the afternoon of December 17. Remarks were made from Prov. 16: 31, by J. O. Miller, assisted by W. W. Miller. Many were the friends who came and lingered as they beheld her lovely face for the last time. A. E. PLACE.