Obituary Notices | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 28, 1882

Obituary Notices.

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

ALLARD.—My dear husband, John J. N. Allard, died of cancerous inflammation in the throat and congestion of the stomach, at his home in East Poland, Me., Nov. 17, aged fifty-six years, and six months. He had kept the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus for years, having united with the Seventh-day Adventists in 1874. We believe he sleeps in Jesus. My husband was deaf and dumb. It was hard to part with him, but we hope to meet him in the morning of the first resurrection. FANNIE L. ALLARD

HULL.—Died of consumption and a complicated disease, at Silver Hill, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., March 9, 1882, Celia, wife of James Hull, in the twenty-fourth year of her age. About two months ago, while on a sick bed, she sought and found the Saviour, and He was her comfort in the trying hours that followed. He was very precious to her. She often confessed her faults, and seemed anxious for forgiveness. She expressed a desire to live to train her infant boy for Christ. Her husband and numerous friends mourn their loss, but not as those who have no hope. Funeral discourse by Miles, Congregationalist, from Rom. 14: 8. ELLEN S. COLLINS

COUNTERMAN, HYATT.—Died of diphtheria, in Mecosta Co., Mich., Oct. 17, 1881, Mrs. Ida M. Counterman, aged twenty-two years, nine months, and four days; also of enlargement of the heart, Jan. 4, Alice A. Hyatt, aged twenty-one years, four months and twenty-one days. These were both daughters of Br. and Sr. Leonard and Catharine Hyatt, of the Alma church. They were converted at the first Alma meeting, in August, 1880, and on receiving baptism united with the Alma church, of which they were members at the time of their death. In youth they entered the service of the Master, little thinking their lives would end so soon. Loving friends laid them away to rest, hoping to meet them again when the Lifegiver comes. Funeral discourse by the writer, March 12, 1880, Eccl. 12. “If love or care could death prevent, Thy day had not so soon been spent.” D. A. WELLMAN

BROWN.—Mrs. Mary Esther Brown died of pneumonia at her home in Fish Creek, Door Co., Wis., March, 1882. Sister Brown was born in the State of New York in 1846, and while a small child removed with her parents to Fish Creek, Wis. Here both her parents died, she was too young to realize her loss. At the age of fifteen, she was united in marriage to Mr. John Brown. In the winter of 1876, under the labors of Eld. H. H. Decker, she accepted the views held by S. D. Adventists. To the time of her death she remained true to her profession; and believing that she sleeps in Jesus, and shall have a part in the resurrection of the just, we sorrow not as those who have no hope. “Go to thy rest; and while Thy absence we deplore, One thought our sorrow shall beguile, For soon, with a celestial smile, We meet to part no more.” Funeral service by the writer. A. JOHNSON

HILTON.—Died of dropsy, in Cornville, Me., Feb., 1882, Comfort, wife of Joseph Hilton, aged eighty years, five months, and eleven days. She was a member of the Christian Baptist church in this town, about fifteen years ago, when the third angel’s message was presented in the place. She accepted the truth, and united with the S. D. A. church in Cornville, remaining a faithful member until the day of her death. She was a faithful companion, an affectionate mother, and one who was very highly esteemed by all her neighbors and friends with whom she had lived for some fifty-eight years. She was among the few against whom we never heard a word of censure. Having fallen at her post, she sleeps in Jesus. May God bless the afflicted family, and give them a home where death will never come. Sermon by the writer, from 1 Thess. 4: 18. J. B. GOODRICH

HAYDEN.—Died of spinal meningitis in Appleton, St. Clair Co., Mo., March 16, 1882, our dear little Chester Curtis, aged seven years and eight days. He was sick but three days, but his sufferings were great, though borne patiently. Curtis was taught to keep the commandments from infancy, and was careful in his use of words, considering by-words as bad as swearing. He always had a good Sabbath-school lesson. The Sabbath before his death, his teacher asked the class if he thought God could find ten righteous persons in the city. He counted the school, and said with much confidence that there were thirty in the house. May his words prove true, and when Jesus calls the little sleeper from the tomb, may they with him be caught up to meet the Lord in the air. Sermon by Eld. Porter, Christian, from Phil. 1: 21, “To die is gain.” ASHLEY AND MARY HAYDEN