Obituary Notice | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jan 11, 1877

Obituary Notice.

“I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death.” Hosea 13:14.

Died at Loyalton, Sierra Co., Cal., Dec. 17, of Typhoid fever, Bro. J. B. Brown formerly from Kentucky, in the sixty-second year of his age. Bro. Brown had never made a profession of religion until he embraced the Advent doctrine and commenced the observance of the Sabbath in Piner settlement, near Santa Rosa, under the labors of Bro. Bourdeau and myself, in the spring of 1869.

He took hold of the truth with a firm grasp and was ever an ardent worker in this cause. Sr. Brown writes respecting his last days that “He was sick four weeks. Our home is desolate without his prayers and continual pleading with us to consecrate ourselves to the Lord, and be ready to meet him. He did not suffer pain. He said, ‘I feel that time is short, and my dear one will soon come from the tomb, and then I shall meet him and my little jewels that have been so long sleeping.’”

Bro. Brown was buried in Virginia City, Nevada. The funeral discourse was given by the Methodist minister. Sr. Brown says, “Oh, that my last hours could be like his, so peaceful and calm, with the love of God in his heart. Nothing led him aside from duty.”

J. N. Loughborough.

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Died at Healdsburg, Cal., Dec. 28, 1876, Richard Cox, aged 76 years. We laid him away in Oak-Mound Cemetery to await the sounding of the trump of God, believing that he will have a part in the first resurrection.

JOHN COOK.

Died in Westfield, Decatur Co., Kan., Dec. 20, 1876, Shepard Ferren, aged 65 years and 27 months. He died in full faith of Jesus soon coming to raise the sleeping saints who have kept the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. He leaves a wife and six children besides other relatives to mourn his loss.

S. FERREN.

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