p. 55 | Obituary Notices

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 28, 1873

Obituary Notices.

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

DIED, Jan. 11, 1873, while on a visit at Coldwater, Mich., Anthony L. Burwell, of Parma, Mich., in the sixty-seventh year of his age, of pneumonia, which terminated in kidney affection. The last twenty-four hours of his sickness, his suffering was great, yet he bore it with patience and resignation.

Bro. Burwell was a native of Panton, Addison Co., Vt. In 1835, at the age of twenty-nine, he made a profession of religion and united with the Baptist church. Two years later, he heard Wm. Miller, and embraced the Advent doctrine, and remained with this people through the passing of the time, and the disappointment in 1844. Twenty-one years ago, he began the observance of the Lord’s Sabbath and became connected with the Seventh-day Adventists. He was firm in this belief and practice to the day of his death.

For seventeen years, he has been a resident of Parma. He leaves a wife, two children, and numerous relatives and friends, to mourn their loss. They have reason to believe that he rests in hope. His funeral was held at Parma village on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1873. Discourse by the writer. Text, Rev. 1:18. I. D. Van Horn.

DIED, in Armenia, Pa., Aug. 7, 1872, of consumption, sister Caroline, wife of Coral Webler, aged forty-two years, five months, and four days.

Sister W., with her father, mother, and others, embraced the Sabbath and kindred truths a few years since, while I was holding meetings in their neighborhood. She cherished a bright hope of living again at the resurrection of the just. She departed this life under trying circumstances, her aged mother having both legs broken while caring for her in her last sickness. She was conscious of this terrible accident to her mother and bore it with composure and patience. May the Lord bless the mourning family, and prepare them for endless life in the world to come.

The writer spoke from Matt. 16:27: “For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father, with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.”

Also at the same place, of congestion of the lungs, Jan. 6, 1873, Andrew Monroe, father of sister Webler. He was sick, not quite three days.

He was one of the first settlers in Armenia. He was a kind neighbor, an affectionate companion, and a loving and much-loved father. He was formerly a Disciple, but embraced the Sabbath about eleven years since. The writer spoke on the occasion to a gathering of friends and sympathizing neighbors, from Rev. 2:7. It was heart-rending to see the afflicted companion borne in a chair and raised to take the parting look at her dear husband. May the only remaining son (who was providentially present, his home being in Madison Co., N. Y.), also the only surviving daughter, yet keep all of God’s commandments, and prepare to meet their dear father beyond this vale of tears. J. L. Baker.

DIED, near Washington, Iowa, Dec. 14, 1872, after lingering eighteen days from the effects of a severe scald, our darling baby, Harriet Martha, youngest child of Joseph M. and Alice A. Kilgore, aged fourteen months and six days.

Little Mattie was a lovely child. Strong were the ties that bound her to our hearts. It was a severe stroke, and an intense struggle with us to give her up. But we trust that this affliction may not lead us to turn from the Lord and his truth, but that it may be sanctified to the end that we may be more holy, more resigned to the will of our Master, and withal strongly animated with the hope of those who rely upon the promises that their children shall come again from the land of the enemy, at the sound of the last trump. J. M. & Alice A. Kilgore.

FELL asleep in Martinsville, Ill., Dec. 16, 1872, sister Rebecca Lehman, aged fifty-six years, one month, and twenty-four days.

Sister Lehman embraced religion in early life, united with the church of God at the age of nineteen, and pursued a straightforward course through life. When the light of the Sabbath reform was brought before her, she believed and obeyed. She had the confidence of all who knew her. Her death was caused by an attack of pneumonia, which continued one week.

Remarks before a large congregation of friends and neighbors, from Num. 23:10. G. W. Colcord.