Obituary Notices | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 22, 1877

Obituary Notices.

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

Died, at Monterey, Allegan Co., Mich., Feb. 5, 1877, sister Maria M., wife of Bro. Frank Ingham, and only daughter of Bro. and Sr. Rumery, aged 27 years. Sr. Ingham embraced the truth, and was baptized by Eld. James White about fourteen years since. She was possessed of a meek and genial disposition, compatible with the spirit of Christianity; and the profound grief her untimely death brings to all who knew her is only mitigated by the bright evidence she left of a preparation for immortality at the soon coming of the Life-giver. Discourse by the writer from John 11: 25, 26. H. M. KENYON.

LINES ON THE DEATH OF MY SISTER.

FAREWELL, dear one, pure and lovely; How dear thou wast, no tongue can tell. How we shall miss thee! Oh! how lonely Is the home where thou didst dwell.

Sad and weeping, now we leave thee In thy narrow, lowly bed; But no sorrow now can grieve thee, For thou sleepest with the dead.

But the hope that thou didst cherish When with sorrow thou didst meet, Now sustains us in our anguish While we part with one so sweet.

For a bright and radiant morning Soon shall burst the dreary tomb; Then immortal thine adorning, Thou shalt wake to fadeless bloom.

A glad reunion then forever May amend our broken band, If we all but strive together To obtain that better land. MRS. HATTIE K. RUMERY.

Died, near Seward, Nebraska, Jan. 26, 1877, Abiathar S. Kenison, aged sixty-two years, five months, and twenty-three days. He had been a believer in the second advent faith for several years, when about two years ago, under the labors of Eld. Chas. L. Boyd, he embraced the third angel’s message. He has lived a consistent Christian life ever since, always filling his place in the meetings and Sabbath-school, ever ready with his cheering testimony to encourage and exhort his brethren. He leaves a wife and thirteen children, five of whom are married. His sufferings were great, but he bore them patiently without a murmur. Words of comfort and consolation were spoken to the sorrowing friends and a large and attentive congregation, from Rev. 14: 13, by the writer. M. HACKWORTH.

Died, in Rochester, Minnesota, Nov. 20, 1876, my dear mother, Nancy Brown, in the seventy-eighth year of her age. She had been observing the seventh day as the Sabbath of the Lord for more than twelve years; and she died rejoicing in hope of a part in the first resurrection. We do not mourn as those that have no hope, although we feel the loss of a parent that was dear, and feel that we want to prepare to meet her where there will be no more separation, neither sorrow nor sighing. A. E. HARRIS.

Fell asleep in Jesus, on the sixth day of January, Elbridge F. Wilhite, son of E. K. and Louesia Wilhite, aged four years, seven months, and twenty-one days. Soon may the Life-giver come, and bring my little one from the grave. Oh! that we may be ready to meet our precious little one in that day when the Life-giver shall come to take his children home. LOUESIA WILHITE.

Fell asleep in Jesus, near Lovington, Moultrie Co., Ill., Jan. 14, 1877, Sr. Permelia Erh, aged sixty-three years. Her sickness was short. She left a kind husband and son and a large circle of friends to mourn her loss. She has been a professor of religion for upwards of forty-five years. Under the labors of Brn. Colcord and Bliss, she, with her husband, embraced the truth of the third angel’s message, and was taken into the church of Lovington, Ill., Feb. 13, 1875. She was firm in the faith of this message, and we laid her away strong in the faith of a joyful resurrection unto eternal life when Jesus the Life-giver shall come.

“She sleeps in Jesus, soon to rise, When the last trump shall rend the skies; Then burst the fetters of the tomb, To wake in full immortal bloom.” JACOB NEWLAN.