Obituary Notices | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 25, 1874

Obituary Notices.

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

FELL asleep in Jesus, in Kenockee, St. Clair Co., Mich., Sabbath, July 4, 1874, Sarah, daughter of Bro. Daniel Smith, in the eighteenth year of her age. Was taken sick immediately upon entering a term of school at Flint, Mich., with typhoid pneumonia, followed by quick consumption and death. Naturally of a happy temper, to make it still better, it was molded by a Saviour's love. Her last words were, "Can this be death? Oh, how sweet to sleep in Jesus." A thrill of joy it gives unceasingly to the heart of father and family. Endeavored to speak words of comfort on Sunday, July 5, from John 14:1. D. H. LAWSON.

DROWNED, in Pawcatuck River, Westerly, R. I., July 31, 1874, our dear little Vollie. He was at play with his playmates in a boat, when his foot slipped, letting him into the water. His companions, from fear, undoubtedly, made no alarm till sometime after, when search was immediately made and his body found floating near the west bank of the river. Kind friends and a physician at once used every energy to resuscitate him, but all in vain. He was five years old on the day of his funeral, Monday, Aug. 3, 1874. His remains were buried at River Bend Cemetery, where we trust he will lie till the first resurrection, then to be united with us to die no more. What a “blessed hope”! E. ANSON STILLMAN, RENA K. STILLMAN.

DIED, July 31, at Milwaukee, Wis., Hannah Sleeper, widow of the late Lester Bryant, aged seventy-eight years, five months, and fifteen days. They were both S. D. Adventists, and died firmly believing that Christ, the life-giver, would soon call them from their peaceful slumbers to inherit life eternal. CLARA BRYANT.

DIED, at Colebrook, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, July 23, 1874, of dysentery, Esther Violet, infant daughter of Moses E. and Julia C. Geer, aged seven months. MOSES E. GEER.