Obituary Notices by R. F. Cottrell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 4, 1875

Obituary Notices.

By R. F. Cottrell

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

DIED, at Ridgeway, Orleans Co., N. Y., Oct. 12, 1875, our dear sister in Christ, Pamelia Alvord, aged seventy-eight years. Early in life she embraced the Christian faith and gave her heart to God; and early in the proclamation of the advent doctrine in the first message (Rev. 14:6, 7), she listened to the preaching of Eld. Wm. Miller and others, and received the truth of the second advent at hand. About twelve years ago, hearing the third message, she embraced it, and has since been a faithful observer of the Sabbath of the Lord, and a persevering laborer in tract distribution. She rests from her labors. The funeral was held in the neighborhood where she had long lived, near Lockport, she being one of the first settlers in the place, and we laid her in the family burying ground on her old farm, by the side of her husband, many years deceased. The Congregational minister of Lockport took part in the services, making very good and appropriate remarks. Her old neighbors manifested much interest in the occasion; the day was fine, and the singing, provided by them, was solemn, pathetic, and deeply interesting. Her children and grandchildren deeply feel their loss. May they heed her counsel, and be prepared to meet her in glory. R. F. Cottrell.