Obituary Notices | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 18, 1873

Obituary Notices.

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

DIED, in Galena, Ill., Jan. 15, 1873, of lung and heart disease, our daughter, Margaret E. Williams, aged twenty years and four months.

We have every reason to believe that our daughter sleeps in Jesus, and will be found of that happy number that will meet the Saviour in the air and be forever with their Lord. Our mourning will soon be over, for Jesus is soon coming to take his waiting people where parting will be no more. C. P. & B. L. WILLIAMS.

DIED, in Richburg, Allegany Co., N. Y., Jan. 31, 1873, of congestion of the lungs, Mrs. Lydia Griggs, widow of the late Reuben Griggs, aged seventy-eight years and eight months.

Sister Griggs experienced religion in early life and united with the Methodist church, of which she remained a member for between forty and fifty years. At that time her attention was called to the questions of the Sabbath and baptism, and, after a careful study of the Scriptures concerning them, she was baptized and commenced keeping the Sabbath. Her religious feelings were most in harmony with the Seventh-day Adventists, although she never united with any of their church organizations. She continued faithful till death, trusting in the Lamb of God for the crown of life. G. J. CRANDALL.

DIED, in Fulton, Gratiot Co., Mich., Dec. 29, 1872, Adalaide Daniels, aged twenty-seven years, six months, and six days. She leaves a husband, two children, and a large circle of friends, to mourn their loss. The deceased embraced present truth about eight years ago. She has lived a consistent Christian, and we hope she sleeps in Jesus. Words of comfort were spoken by Bro. F. Squires. H. W. MUSSERT.

DIED, in Richmond, Iowa, Dec. 31, 1872, Mary Davis, in the seventy-seventh year of her age.

Our dear mother was in the first message, and attended meetings with father Miller. She retained her Advent views. When she moved West, there being no Adventist church there, she joined the Baptist church, of which she remained a member until her death; but she had been keeping the seventh-day Sabbath for over twelve years. She said she should rest in the grave only a little while. She died in the blessed hope of having a part in the first resurrection. Funeral services by the Baptist minister. ELIZABETH C. CHIPMAN.

DIED, at his residence in Parkville, St. Jo. Co., Mich., after an illness of seven months, Leonard Claflin, aged sixty-three years. Bro. Claflin has been a faithful member of the Seventh-day Adventist church of Parkville ever since the truth was first preached there by Bro. Loughborough and Andrews.

He leaves an aged widow to mourn her loss. L. A. OLMSTEAD.

DIED, of measles, in Marion, Iowa, Jan. 26, 1873, Major Morton, son of Nathaniel and Eveline Morton, aged fifteen years and twenty-six days. Remarks by J. T. Mitchell, from Job 14:14. D. T. SHIREMAN.