Obituary Notices | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 21, 1882

Obituary Notices.

“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.”—Rev. 14:13.

MCYOUNG.—Lydia C., wife of James McYoung, died in Afton, Iowa, March 1, 1882, aged thirty-eight years and twenty days. Sister McYoung leaves a husband and seven children to mourn her loss. On the occasion of the funeral, the writer spoke words of comfort from Rev. 14:13 to as large and attentive a congregation as was ever in the Adventist church in Afton. Sister McYoung had many friends, who hope to meet her in the resurrection of the just. A. W. H. MILLARD.

WETHERBEE.—Died of consumption, in Bledsoe Co., Tenn., Jan. 21, 1882, John R. Wetherbee, son of H. A. and Margaret Wetherbee, aged nineteen years, nine months, and six days. He made a profession of religion last summer, and was baptized by Bro. Moyers. His whole soul was in the work of preparing for the Judgment. He will sleep a little while, and then we trust that Jesus will come to crown him with immortal life in the Paradise of God. MARGARET WETHERBEE.

BATTIN.—Died of scarlet fever, at the residence of his father-in-law, in Wasioja, Minn., March 7, 1882, our very dear brother, Eld. Newton Battin, aged twenty-six years, three months, and fifteen days. He was ill only five days. He leaves a wife and one child to mourn their loss. Eld. Battin had just closed a series of meetings in Milton township, and came home the day before he was taken sick. Thus within one week from the time he was enjoying apparent health, this dear brother was laid in an untimely grave; so brittle is the thread of life. On account of sickness in the family, and his friends living at a distance, the funeral services were deferred until some future time. L. M. ELLIS.

JACOBSON.—Died of diphtheria, Dec. 31, 1881, in Oak Valley, Otter Tail Co., Minn., our little boy, Frank Jasper Jacobson, aged four years, four months, and one day. Before he was taken sick, he talked of his brothers whose obituary notices were in the Review of Jan. 31. He would say, “Well, Julius and Bertie will be alive in Heaven some day; and then I can see them.” On his dying bed he sang, “Shall We Gather at the River?” We hope to gather there with our little ones.

Also Jan. 15, of the same disease, our daughter, Paulina May Jacobson, aged eleven years, three months, and twenty-two days. Paulina and Julius were much attached to each other. They studied their Sabbath-school lessons together, and recited them at home, as they could not go to Sabbath-school. When Paulina was scarcely able to speak, she cleared her throat, and sang in a clear voice, “We Are Going Home To-morrow.”

In eight short weeks we have laid four of our dear children in the grave, and in a little over five years have buried seven,—all of the younger children. We have but three left. Our hearts and home are sad and lonely, but we feel to say with Job, “The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord.” MRS. C. JACOBSON.