Obituary Notices | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 10, 1874

Obituary Notices.

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

Died, in Ashaway, R. I., Jan. 13, 1874, Flora M., wife of John D. Langworthy, and daughter of B. F. and Anna Carpenter, in the twentieth year of her age. She was an obedient and affectionate daughter and wife, and parents and husband deeply feel her death. We trust she sleeps in Jesus. They mourn not as those without hope. May those who loved her here love God with all their hearts, and meet in that land where sickness and death will never be known and sorrow never come. Words of comfort spoken by the writer, assisted by Eld. Main, S. D. Baptist. P. C. Rodman.

Died, in Independence, N. Y., Jan. 28, 1874, after four weeks severe suffering, Joseph Evens, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. In early life, Bro. Evens united with the Methodist church, and continued with them for twenty-five years. Then his mind was called to the subject of the second coming of Christ. Yielding to the convictions of his judgment, he united with the first-day Adventists. A few years later, his mind was called to the Sabbath question, and this was so clear, he embraced it at once and united with the Seventh-day Adventist church at Lewisville, Pa., with which he remained until death. He was an earnest Christian during life, and endured his sufferings so meekly and with so much patience as to convince all that he loved Jesus with all his heart, and that Jesus loved him in return. His death was a triumphant one. He has left a wife and six children, and others, not to mourn their loss, but to rejoice in his gain. J. Kenyon.

Died, in Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 29, 1874, of consumption, our dear sister E. Jennie Gonter, aged twenty-nine years. Sister Jennie embraced the truths of the third angel’s message some twelve years ago, and loved them. She calmly and sweetly fell asleep to awaken in the morning of the resurrection. She leaves a little son aged five years. Comforting words were spoken by Eld. Whitmore, Adventist. D. Lamson.

Died, in Avilla, Jasper Co., Missouri, our loved mother, Celina, wife of James Santee, in the forty-sixth year of her age. Her sufferings through a protracted illness were at times severe, but borne with patience. She fell asleep in Jesus Nov. 26. For over twenty years she was a lover of the truth and an observer of the Lord’s Sabbath. The tired feet that have so often become weary for us are at rest. May the seed that she has sown in tears bear fruit to life everlasting. She being dead yet speaketh. Her words of love and truth have a deep place in our hearts. May the Lord enable us so to live that we shall meet her at the resurrection of the just. Funeral discourse by Bro. Blanchard. Her Children.

Died, near Centerville, Linn Co., Kan., Dec. 18, 1873, my father, G. J. Sharp, in the sixty-fifth year of his age. He had been afflicted with a cancer for many months, and had during the past year suffered all that it seemed possible for any one to suffer, but is now at rest. Many times during his last days he longed for death to come and release him from his pain. Smith Sharp.

Died, in Palmyra, Maine, Jan. 1, 1874, Polly, wife of John W. Davis, aged seventy-three years, eleven months, and eighteen days. > “Blessed are they henceforth that die, > Reclining on the Saviour’s breast; > They cease from every care and sigh, > From all their labors, they have rest.” > > J. B. Goodrich.