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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 7, 1871

Obituary Notices.

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

DIED, Feb. 9, 1871, at Civil Bend, Mo., Celestia Estellie, infant daughter and only child of Bro. and sister W. H. and E. D. Winters, aged 1 year, 1 month, and 17 days. L. R. L.

DIED, in Volney N. Y., at the residence of David Arnold, Dec. 16, 1870, of heart disease, Amanda Westcott, aged 41 years. Sister Westcott was one of those who embraced the present truth at Rochester, N. Y., while the REVIEW was published there.

On the removal of the publishing family to Battle Creek, she took up residence with us, and has since remained a faithful inmate of our family, and by her kind and social ways, won a deep place in our affections, and secured a large circle of friends. She was a firm believer in present truth; and although her death was sudden and unexpected, yet for some time previous she seemed to be making preparation for the great change. Our loss we feel; but the blessed hope comforts us. D. & L. K. ARNOLD.

DIED, in Haverhill, Mass., Sarah, widow of the late James Osgood, aged 79 years, 10 months. Our sister died in the triumphs of the faith of the third message. The last day of her life she called her children and grandchildren to her and gave them solemn and good instruction. She was very anxious to have them give their hearts to the Saviour, consecrate themselves to the service of God, live right, and meet her in the kingdom. D. D. HAINES.

SISTER CATHARINE KEEFER fell asleep in Hillsdale township, Mich., Jan. 26, 1871, aged 93 years, 9 months, and 16 days.

Catharine Hart was born in Pennsylvania, April 10, 1777; lived in Hillsdale Co. since 1838. She was converted in 1829, from which time to her death, she lived a consistent Christian. She was educated in the German language. At the age of 75, she commenced to study the English, being anxious to read the Bible in that language, and in a few years was able to read the English Bible fluently. She commenced keeping the Sabbath of the fourth commandment in the winter of 1857–8. Her conversation was always interesting and instructive, showing that she not only possessed a strong mind well instructed by extensive reading, but was a person of fervent piety and of a rich Christian experience. She fell asleep in the hope of the Saviour’s soon coming to raise his saints from the dust of the earth. J. H. WAGGONER.

DIED, in Rutland, Barry Co., Mich., Jan. 29, 1871, Bro. Robert Owen in the 66th year of his age. The last forty-six years of his life, Bro. Owen had devoted to the cause of God. Thirty years of this time he was an active member of the Methodist church. The remaining sixteen years, he had been keeping all the commandments of God, and looking for the second advent of his Lord. He leaves a wife and seven children who mourn his loss; yet they sorrow not as others who have no hope. Discourse by the writer from Job 14:14. H. M. KENYON.