Obituary by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 12, 1883

Obituary.

By Editor

DIED, in Hardin, Calhoun Co., Ill., March 6, 1883, John B. Harmon, aged 67 years, 2 months, and 7 days.

Also, in Paola, Kansas, March 29, 1883, Caroline T. Clough, aged 72 years lacking ten days.

The above deceased were brother and sister of Sister Ellen G. White, so well known by her writings to the readers of the SIGNS. They were born in Portland, Maine.

Brother Harmon was a highly respected member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and an earnest advocate of temperance. We learn from a paper printed in Hardin that his last hours were trustful and peaceful. The notice says that “he sent for his pastor and wife, and after a fervent prayer with them his eyes closed in weakness, but soon opened in joyous satisfaction and gleaming with a new light, he said, ‘I am blessed. I feel calm and peaceful; the Saviour is very near,’ and frequently remarked, ‘It is all right.’ The last words we caught from his lips were, ‘My Saviour.’”

Sister Clough was also a member of the Methodist Church, and her last days were marked with zeal and devotion. She was strong and vigorous till within a short time of her death, which was caused by pneumonia. She had the appearance of a person not over 60, and retained her faculties to the last. EDITOR.