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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 1, 1877

Obituary Notices.

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

DIED, in Norwalk, Ohio, Jan. 15, 1877, of consumption, Mrs. Lucinda M. Ruggles, aged thirty-four years, two months, and twenty-one days. Sr. Ruggles embraced the truth and received baptism while at the Health Institute in Battle Creek, some over one year ago, and from that time until her death endeavored faithfully to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. The church has lost a worthy sister. A husband and two small children are left to mourn. But there is good hope that she will have part in the first resurrection.

Funeral discourse from 2 Sam. 14:14, by the writer. H. A. St. John.

DIED, at Loyalton, Sierra Co., Cal., Dec. 17, 1876, of typhoid fever, Bro. J. C. Brown, formerly from Kentucky, in the sixty-second year of his age. Bro. Brown had never made a profession of religion until he embraced the Advent doctrine and commenced the observance of the Sabbath in Piner settlement, near Santa Rosa, under the labors of Bro. Bourdeau and myself, in the spring of 1869.

He took hold of the truth with a firm grasp, and was ever an ardent worker in this cause. Sister Brown writes respecting his last days, “He was sick four weeks. Our home is desolate without his prayers and continual pleading with us to consecrate ourselves to the Lord, and be ready to meet him. He did not suffer pain.” She says, “I feel that time is short, and my dear one will soon come from the tomb, and then I shall meet him and my little jewels that have been so long sleeping.”

Bro. Brown was buried in Virginia City, Nevada. The funeral discourse was given by the Methodist minister. Sr. Brown says, “Oh! that my last hours could be like his, so peaceful and calm, with the love of God in his heart. Nothing led him aside from duty.” J. N. Loughborough.

DIED, in Westfield, Decatur Co., Kan., Dec. 20, 1876, Shepard Ferren, aged sixty-five years and seven months. He died in full faith of Jesus’ soon coming to raise the sleeping saints who have kept the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. He leaves a wife and six children, besides other relatives, to mourn his loss. S. Ferren.

DIED, of heart disease, Jan. 13, 1877, in Vienna, Wis., sister Retta Paton, wife of Bro. Thomas Paton, aged 34 years. Sister Paton was a firm believer in present truth, and has been a member of the Hundred Mile Grove church for the last thirteen years. She died in full faith of a part in the first resurrection. She leaves a husband and four little children, who deeply mourn their loss. Words of comfort were spoken at the funeral by the writer, from Rev. 14:13. N. M. Jordan.

DIED, near Rockville, Bates Co., Mo., Dec. 21, 1876, of cerebro-spinal meningitis, Ada Klostermeyer, aged 8 months and 16 days. John F. & L. Klostermeyer.

DIED, in Cowley Co., Kansas, Sept. 9, 1876, Bro. John C. Walch, aged thirty-four years, three months, and twenty-eight days. Bro. Walch united with the Baptists when quite young, and remained a consistent member of that church until Bro. Osborn gave a course of lectures at Powder Mills, Ky., about two years ago, when he accepted the present truth, in which he has continued firm and steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the love of God, growing in grace daily. He leaves a companion, four sons, one daughter, and many friends, to mourn their loss.

“He hath passed death’s chilling billow, And gone to rest; Jesus smoothed his dying pillow, His slumbers blest.”

P. A. Williams.