p. 167 | Obituary Notices

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 24, 1877

Obituary Notices.

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

Died, near Deckman, Dallas Co., Texas, April 4, 1877, Walter, infant child of E. H. and E. J. Elliot (formerly from Richardson Co., Nebraska), aged four months and 6 days. Funeral services by Bro. A. B. Rust.

Fell asleep in Jesus, May 4, 1877, at the residence of her son (Dudley A.), in the town of Hastings, Mich., Sr. Merab K. Owen, sister to Bro. J. P. Kellogg, of Battle Creek. She was born in Hadley, Mass., Mar. 8, 1811.

She was first a Baptist, then united with the Methodists, and in 1856 her brother, J. P. K., sent her the Advent Review. As soon as she was convinced, she commenced to keep the Sabbath, and for four years she kept it alone. Then her son Dudley embraced the truth, and kept the Sabbath with her for another four years, when her godly walk and Christian integrity won her husband and her other children to the truth. So she lived to see the great desire of her heart,—her entire family rejoicing in the love of God. She had buried her husband and two of her children in hope; and after years of patient suffering, she sleeps beside them, waiting the promise of her Lord, “I will come again, and receive you unto myself.” Funeral attended by the writer, May 7. Text, 1 Cor. 15:26.

T. M. STEWARD.

Died, in Waterloo, Grant Co., Wis., March 28, 1877, our dear father, James Elwell, aged 88 years, 3 months, 19 days. He left three sons and two daughters. We thank the Lord that we need not sorrow as those who have no hope. He had bright hopes of immortality when the Life-giver comes. He embraced religion in early life. In 1867, he and four sons and three daughters embraced the third angel’s message, under the faithful labors of Bro. I. Sanborn. Father was always a cheerful giver to the support of the cause. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. He had been a great sufferer for over 30 years, and especially the last fifteen days of his sickness, his suffering was intense; yet he bore it with Christian fortitude. As long as he had breath he exhorted his children and grandchildren and neighbors to prepare to meet him in the kingdom.

Funeral services by Eld. J. Ganiard. Text from Job 14:14. His resting place is by the side of our dear mother in the Waterloo Village cemetery.

F. A. E.