p. 203 | Obituary by R. D. Benham

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 7, 1883

Obituary.

By R. D. Benham

ALEXANDER.—Died, in Portland, Oregon, Feb. 9, of blood-poisoning, Georgie D. son of David D. and Augusta T. Alexander, aged nine years, one month, and twenty-two days. Georgie appeared of good health till about the first of January, when he began to show signs of illness, from which time he gradually grew worse until the evening of Feb. 8, when he began to bleed at the nose and mouth, after which he passed through several hard convulsions when his frame seemed to be racked with pain. Thus he continued until the morning of the 9th, about 7:30, when death came to his relief.

Georgie was an unusually attractive child, giving this early evidence of deep thought and even piety; often asking his father the reason for neglecting morning or evening prayer, when it was neglected, expressing a wish he would continue it as usual. Of a kind and gentle disposition, he would not return harsh words or deeds for those received from school-mates or others.

As his little life went out, his last whispered words were to his heavenly Father in prayer, ending with this: “O Lord save my papa and my mamma, little sisters and little brother.” We earnestly hope this stroke of affliction will serve to draw them nearer to God, and cause them to strive to meet their dear child again; for we believe that in the morning of the resurrection, the lonely graveyard at Beaverton will be visited by angels to stand by the sleeping dust of some, who, accounted worthy of eternal life, will awake to immortal bloom; and Georgie will be one.

R. D. BENHAM.