Obituary Notices | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 8, 1877

Obituary Notices.

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

Died, of typhoid fever, Jan. 9, 1877, Mary Charlotta, eldest daughter of William and Emma Ferguson, aged six years and nine months. Discourse from Isa. 49:25. S. W. Bird.

Died, near Wheatville, Crawford Co., Wis., Dec. 17, 1876, of diphtheria and croup, Arthur John, son of Geo. and Jane McDonell, aged eight years and five months. Funeral services by Eld. John Atkinson.

Died, near Sharpsville, Tipton Co., Ind., Oct. 15, 1876, of cholera infantum, our dear babe, Matilda Jane Bringle, aged 17 months and 15 days. Jacob Bringle.

Died, in Topsham, Maine, Dec. 24, 1876, Mrs. Dolly A. Getchell, aged 29 years. She was a faithful Sabbath-keeper for thirteen years. She leaves one child and a kind husband. Funeral sermon by R. S. Webber.

Died, at his home in Arcade township, Wyoming Co., N. Y., Bro. Evan Jones, in the sixty-fifth year of his age. Funeral sermon by Eld. Colby, Baptist. Text, Ps. 17:15. He leaves a wife and one daughter. Chas. B. Reynolds.

Died, near Collamer, N. Y., Feb. 10, 1877, from congestion of the lungs, after an illness of twenty-four hours, Nettie, infant daughter of Thomas and Ellen Maxwell. Funeral discourse by Eld. Washburn (Presbyterian) from 2 Kings 4:26.

“As the sweet flower that scents the morn, But withers in the rising day, Thus lovely was this infant’s dawn, Thus swiftly fled its life away.” P. Z. Kinne.