Obituary Notices | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 17, 1876

Obituary Notices.

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

DIED, of paralysis, at Smithland, Iowa, July 20, 1876, sister Hulda A. Hoskins, aged fifty-nine years and eleven days. Sister Hoskins gave her heart to the Lord at the early age of fifteen. About two years ago, Bro. Bartlett came to Smithland, proclaiming the third angel's message and the Sabbath of the Lord, when she embraced the glorious truth and has since been a very useful member of the S. D. A. church. She died in full faith of a part in the first resurrection. She leaves a large family to mourn their loss, but they sorrow not as those without hope. She selected for a funeral text Ps. 17:15, and wished Bro. Bartlett to preach the sermon at our September meeting. GEORGE HOSKINS.

DIED, by an accident, in Ceresco, Mich., June 26, 1876, Bro. Thomas Crouch, in the eightieth year of his age. Bro. C. came to his end in a very unexpected manner. He was leading his cow to the field, early in the morning, when the creature became frightened by a dog, and jumped, pulling him to the ground, causing dislocation of the neck, and instantaneous death. Bro. C. had made a profession of serving God for over forty years. About fifteen years ago he embraced the Sabbath, which, with his faithful wife, he observed to the time of his death. Though not fully connected with the church at the time of his decease, his friends felt that he was an honest man, and they laid him away till the trump of God shall wake the dead. The just Lord will do all things well. The text for the occasion was Job 14:10, and the lesson, I Cor. 15, both chosen by the widow. Discourse by Eld. A. C. Spicer, to a large and sympathetic audience. G. W. A.

DIED, of inflammation of the lungs, near Alma, Mich., July 10, 1876, sister L. M. Johnson, daughter of Amos Johnson, in the seventeenth year of her age. She was sick only six days. She professed the truth under Bro. Carnright's labors last winter, and, with twelve others, intended to have been baptized the day before her death, had not her sickness prevented. She leaves many friends to mourn their loss. Funeral discourse by the writer to a large audience; text, I Cor. 15:26. R. J. LAWRENCE.

DEPARTED this life, July 23, 1876, near Martinsville, Ill., our little daughter, Stella, aged four years, five months, and five days. Her disease was spotted fever and terminated fatally in less than twenty-eight hours. We have laid her away in hope to await the coming of the Lifegiver. M. A. DAVISON.

DIED, at Athol, Mass., Aug. 1, 1876, Frank B. Crandall, son of J. and A. C. Crandall, aged twenty years and four months. J. CRANDALL.