Obituary Notices | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 3, 1878

Obituary Notices.

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

Died of typho-bilious fever, Dec. 21, 1877, at Gaines, Kent Co., Mich., Robert R. Jones, aged 75 years.

Bro. Jones had been a resident of the township of Gaines for thirty-seven years. When he first located there, the wilderness was almost perfectly unbroken, and the now large and growing city of Grand Rapids was at that time a mere hamlet. Few of the men who entered that region contemporaneously with Bro. Jones still survive; but those of the pioneer settlers who as yet remain were quite generally at the funeral. Some of them came many miles to be present on that occasion, and the turnout from the immediate vicinity was so large that the school-house was incapable of containing the congregation.

Bro. Jones had formerly been for twenty-one years a member of the Baptist Church of Grand Rapids; for the last sixteen years of his life he has been connected with the Seventh-day Adventist denomination. During the several weeks last preceding his illness, God seems to have been preparing him for his final change, so that on his death-bed he gave clear and satisfactory evidence that he died in the blessed hope of immortality beyond the grave.

The funeral discourse was preached by the writer on the afternoon of the twenty-fourth of December. W. H. Littlejohn.

Died at Monterey, Allegan Co., Mich., Dec. 5, 1877, Bro. Salmon Howard, Sen., in the eighty-eighth year of his age. Bro. H. was converted in 1835 and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and remained with them until the agitation on the question of slavery, when he united with the Wesleyan Methodists. In 1858 he commenced the observance of the Sabbath of the Lord, and united with the Monterey church of S. D. Adventists, of which he was a member at the time of his death.

An instructive and comforting discourse was given by Eld. W. H. Littlejohn, from Luke 2:29–31. H. M. Kenyon.

Died, Sept. 14, 1877, in Danby, Ionia Co., Mich., of asthmatic consumption, Bro. Milton S. Kellogg, aged 51 years, 10 months, and 19 days. Bro. Kellogg embraced the Advent faith in the summer of 1856, from which time until his death the commandments of God were his delight, and the soon-coming of Jesus his great theme of thought and conversation. As death approached, the prospect of the resurrection near kept him above all fear or dread of the grave. He leaves a companion, five children, and a large circle of friends, who deeply mourn their loss. At the funeral the fifteenth chapter of First Corinthians was read, and appropriate remarks were made by Bro. E. Howe and N. Outwater. S. C. Perry.

Sister Sarah Burton died of consumption, at Pleasant Home, Polk Co., Neb., Aug. 8, 1877, aged about 33 years. For over two years sister B was a member of the Stromsburg church of Seventh-day Adventists, having embraced the truths of the third angel’s message under the labors of Bro. C. L. Boyd. She was faithful unto death. Funeral discourse by Bro. Boyd. Geo. S. Richard.

Addie Stickles, daughter of Hiram and Hannah Stickles, died of typhoid fever, at Smethport, Pa., Dec. 1, 1877, aged 11 years and 11 months. She was the only daughter, and leaves a father and two brothers to mourn her loss. Adelbert E. Stickles.