Obituary Notices | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 30, 1873

Obituary Notices.

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

Died, at the residence of Mr. G. P. Brookings, Silver Creek, Burt Co., Neb., Nov. 17, 1873, Herbert Page, infant son of H. A. and J. H. Whittaker. Discourse by Eld. I. C. Jones, Baptist, from the 19th chapter of Job.

H. A. Whittaker.

Died, in Westbury, Oct. 23, 1873, of typhoid fever, John D. Claxton, son of John and Catharine Claxton, aged twenty-seven years.

Died, near Rochester, Minn., after an illness of sixteen days, of inflammation of the lungs, Charles Witherill, formerly from Vermont, aged eighty-one years, nine months, and one day.

He has always been considered a man of the strictest honesty and uprightness; and having had for some years past, an opportunity to investigate the truth, he has manifested a growing love for it during that time, observing carefully the Sabbath and other duties such as Christians only observe. Discourse from Rev. 14: 13, by the writer.

Stephen Pierce.

Died, at Wolcott, Vt., Oct. 20, 1873, of typhoid fever, our son-in-law, Orange Bailey, aged forty-nine years. He was among the first in Vermont who embraced the Bible Sabbath, of which he was a consistent observer until his death. His end was peace. We expect to meet him, if faithful, among the redeemed upon Mount Zion. He leaves a wife and six children to mourn their heavy loss. May they be prepared to meet him among the just.

Reuben Loveland.

Died, at Johnson, Vt., Oct. 17, 1873, our adopted daughter, Hattie L., after a severe sickness of eleven days of typhoid pneumonia, aged five years and three months. She was a lovely child; but prayers and tears could not stay the monster death. We laid her away with the full assurance that, if we overcome, we shall meet her among the blest. Appropriate remarks by Bro. A. Stone.

Reuben Loveland.

Belinda Loveland.

Died, in Lancaster, N. Y., Dec. 14, 1873, of heart disease and dropsy, our beloved mother, Malvina A. Eggleston, aged sixty-three years.

She embraced the doctrine of the third angel’s message about fifteen years ago; and it was her consolation through weary months of suffering. She expressed a willingness and desire to sleep in the grave. We have reason to believe she will be remembered in the first resurrection. She leaves a husband and six children to mourn their loss. Rev. J. M. Ballou (Presbyterian) made some comforting remarks from Heb. 12:5: “My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him.”

“Unconscious now in peaceful sleep, From all her cares at rest, While friends around are called to weep, She is divinely blest. “Away from Satan’s tempting snare, Her faith’s no longer tried; In Jesus she is sleeping there; For in bright hope she died.”

Lera E. Orton.