Obituaries

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 25, 1902

“I am the resurrection and the life.”—Jesus.

WILLIAMS.—Died at Hughes Springs, Tex., Oct. 15, 1902, of heart disease, T. S. Williams, aged 72 years, 4 months, 16 days. He joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church thirty years ago, and his hope of a soon-coming Saviour was bright. He leaves a wife and six children to mourn their loss. C. C. WHATLEY.

WARREN.—Died at Trufant, Mich., Oct. 10, 1902, of quick consumption, Mrs. Nina Warren. About three weeks before her death, she accepted the third angel’s message as far as she had learned it. Funeral services were conducted by Elder Marcan (United Brethren) and the writer. SAMUEL H. MEDLER.

ALWAY.—Died at Salt Lake City, Utah, Oct. 27, 1902, Margery Pauline Alway, daughter of Brother and Sister W. A. Alway, aged 2 years and 15 days. Typhoid fever, combined with other diseases, caused the death of this little one. She was buried at Ogden, Utah. Comforting words were spoken at the funeral by the writer. A. G. CHRISTIANSEN.

PRITCHARD.—Died at Minden, Neb., Oct. 18, 1902, of tuberculosis, Mrs. Lilly Pritchard, aged 34 years. Lilly gave her heart to the Lord in the days of her youth. A husband, two young children, and many relatives are left to mourn, but not without hope. The funeral was held at her old home, near Exeter, Neb. Words of comfort were spoken to a large congregation, on the hope of the resurrection and eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. DANIEL NETTLETON.

COLCORD.—Elder George W. Colcord was born May 12, 1843, and died at Hygiene, Colo., Oct. 4, 1902. Occupying, as he did, important positions of trust, he became widely known throughout the ranks of Seventh-day Adventists, and formed a wide circle of friends. For several years he was president of the Illinois Conference. He was instrumental in starting the academy at Milton, Ore., which later developed into the Walla Walla College. He was likewise the moving spirit in establishing the academy at Graysville, Tenn., now known as the Southern Industrial School. Years of arduous labor and close application undermined his health, and several years ago it became necessary for him to remove to Colorado. But even here he was not content to relax his efforts, but again engaged in school work, teaching one year in the church school in Boulder, and then organizing a school in Hygiene, which constituted his last field of labor. This last school was started with the most favorable auspices, reaching an enrollment of more than one hundred; and had Brother Colcord’s life been spared, no doubt, with the blessing of the Lord, eminent success would have attended the enterprise. Elder Colcord was a man of faith and devotion to the cause of truth. He was pre-eminently a pioneer. Possessed of marked executive ability and organizing power, he was enabled to take new enterprises and bring out of them success where those less fortunate in the possession of these faculties would have failed. He had a large faculty of inspiring his students with enthusiasm and earnestness in their work, and his loss will be keenly felt by the many in whose lives, by the blessing of the Lord, he has been an inspiration to higher purposes and earnest endeavors. His wife, who has so nobly and faithfully stood by his side all these years in the work to which God had called him, is left, above all others, to mourn his loss. 1 Tim. 4:7, 8, was the basis of remarks made upon the occasion of his funeral, which was largely attended by our own people and by citizens and neighbors. FRANCIS M. WILCOX.