Obituary Notices | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 14, 1872

Obituary Notices.

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

Died, in Cornville, Me., March 29, 1872, Sister Amanda Flanders, aged sixty years. Sister Flanders was one of the first in this place to embrace the third angel’s message. She was firm and unwavering in her faith to the very last. Her loss is deeply felt in the church and family where she resided. But we have laid her away, trusting she will share in the first resurrection. Chas. Stratton.

Died, at Los Angeles, Cal., April 20, 1872, of consumption Bro. Volney S. Staley, aged thirty-eight. This brother embraced the truth from the ranks of infidelity while the tent was in Santa Rosa. He gained an excellent experience in his afflictions and trials, and calmly fell asleep in Jesus. Service by the writer on the occasion of his burial, Sunday April 28, at Santa Rosa. A long train of mourners, brethren, and sympathizing friends, followed his remains to their resting place by the side of his mother who died a few months since in the same blessed hope. J. N. Loughborough.

Died, March 29, 1872, in Burlington, Mich., at the residence of her daughter, E. J. W. Bovee, of consumption, Mrs. Elizabeth N. Waggoner, in the sixty-fifth year of her age. About the age of twenty-five, she became a member of the Methodist Protestant Church with which she remained for several years, when she connected herself with the United Brethren. Since the death of her husband some three years ago, while being associated with her daughters she became interested in and fully embraced present truth. Upon her dying bed she became desirous of baptism, having only been sprinkled, she felt that could this duty be performed her work would be done, and she could die peacefully. Her youngest son who attended his mother in her last illness called upon me to perform the rite. By means of the India rubber bathing tub she was buried with her Savior by baptism only a few hours before her death. From this, a look of joy lighted up her countenance. She leaves a large family of sons and daughters to mourn the loss of an intelligent and affectionate mother. What would be her joy could she greet them all in the resurrection morning. Her remains were taken to Ohio, and interred by the side of those of her husband. A discourse was given by a minister of the United Brethren church. John Byington.

Fell asleep in Jesus, in Watrousville, Tuscola Co., Mich., April 6, 1872, Bro. Samuel Bell, aged eighty-two years. Bro. B. was a native of Northumberland Co., England, and emigrated to this country with his companion in 1867. Since that time, they have lived in the family of Bro. Walton, believing and living in accordance with the truths of the third angel’s message. Our brother died in hope. He leaves a companion, one son in England and two daughters in France to mourn their loss. The funeral was well attended by sympathizing friends and neighbors. Discourse by the writer from 1 Thess. 4:18. S. H. Lane.

Died, in Alba, Pa., Sabbath morning, April 13, 1872, after a long and painful sickness, in the sixty-eighth year of her age, our dear mother, Jane Loughhead. For over twenty years she was a believer in the third angel’s message, trying to keep all God’s commandments and the faith of Jesus. She leaves five children and a large circle of friends to mourn her loss. But she sleeps in Jesus, and we very soon expect to meet her again where there will be no more death. Oh! that blessed hope. Funeral discourse by Bro. John L. Baker in the Disciple house of worship in this place. Jefferson Loughhead.

Died, in Clinton Co., Ill., March 26, 1872, of pneumonia and typhoid fever, Amanda Johnson, the daughter of Phremon and Polly Robinson, aged thirty-three years, ten months, and fourteen days. She leaves a companion and one child, and other friends, to mourn her loss. She experienced religion in her youth, and commenced to keep the Sabbath with her parents some twenty years ago, and has tried to live a Christian. When she saw that she could not recover, she said that she was willing to live or die, as the Lord saw was for the best. We mourn not as those without hope. Polly Robinson.