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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 25, 1873

Obituary Notices.

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

KILLED, by an engine, on the Flint and Pere Marquette R. R., at Smith’s crossing, six miles east of Midland, Mich., Jan. 19, 1873, Charles D. Swan, aged forty-five years. He was crossing the track with a load of logs, sitting with his back to the coming engine, and, no sign being given, either by whistle or bell, he knew nothing of its approach until it was upon him. He was thrown between five and six rods from the track and killed instantly. He was brought to Battle Creek, where his family reside, and where the funeral was held on Thursday, the 23d. He leaves a wife and three children to mourn their loss. Discourse by the writer from 2 Tim. 1:8–10.

I. D. Van Horn.

DIED, in Potsdam, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., sister Mary Crosbie, aged twenty-two years.

Thus another has passed away, leaving a clear evidence to mourning friends that she sleeps in Jesus. It is hoped that her last life-work in warning and entreating the dear ones to meet her in the soon-coming kingdom of God will not be forgotten, and that they will pay their vows. God will help them. The long procession that followed the remains from the parental roof, showed that she was loved in life, and in death not forgotten. Words of comfort were spoken to a large congregation, in the Methodist meeting house at the Bridge, kindly offered for the occasion, from 1 Thess. 4:18.

C. O. Taylor.

DIED, in Monterey, Mich., Feb. 7, of cerebro-spinal fever, sister Adelia Frank, wife of Bro. Geo. Frank, and daughter of Stephen and Harriet Gardner, also sister of Hortense Gardner, who died at Battle Creek last summer. She was in the twenty-third year of her age. She was sick only one week, but suffered much. She promised Hortie on her death bed that she would try to meet her in Heaven; and in the last Sabbath meeting before her death, she told us that she had been trying since then to get back to the Lord and his people. After she was taken sick, in answer to prayer, she obtained an evidence that her sins were all forgiven, and seemed to have no doubts afterward.

At the funeral, last Sabbath, some remarks were made by the writer from Rev. 14:13.

H. G. Buck.