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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 10, 1878

Obituary Notices.

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

Died, of congestive chills, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wealthy DeWitt, Mrs. Fannie Haskins, of Portage, Wood Co., Ohio, on Thursday, Aug. 23, 1877, aged 82 years.

Our mother was a devoted Christian, and during her long and laborious life she ever sought to walk before her household with a perfect heart, and to train up her children in the fear of the Lord; and most of the time since her widowhood, in 1874, she has made her home with us, and has been a conscientious observer of the Sabbath. No day passed in which she omitted reading the Bible and secret prayer; and religious conversation and devotional exercises always seemed to elevate her mind to heavenly views, and above the things of this world.

JOSEPH AND SARAH CLARKE.

Died, of typhoid fever, in Lowell, Oxford Co., Maine, Dec. 17, 1877, Mary, wife of Dexter B. Moore, aged 70 years, 4 months, and 9 days. She became interested in the truth last summer when our tent was pitched in Lowell, and as her health would not permit her to come out to meeting, she would take her seat by the window in their own house, where she could listen to every discourse. She acknowledged the truth, and signified her intention to live it out, and I was informed that she had the privilege of keeping one Sabbath before she passed away. She felt that she was ready to go. May God bless the aged father and the children. Funeral discourse by the writer, from John 14:3.

J. B. GOODRICH.

The 25th of November last, three of Bro. Markus Strömann’s children were taken away by scarlet fever, which has been very prevalent here in Swan Lake, Dak., since last spring. They all died within twenty-four hours. The eldest, Lydia, was six, Carl Christian was four, and George was two years old. This is a heavy blow to the sorrowing parents, but the hope of the resurrection sustains them in this hour of affliction. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from John 16:22.

JOHN F. HANSON.

My mother, Henrietta Herrguth, died at her residence, near Jackson, Mich., Nov. 20, 1877, in the seventy-seventh year of her age. She was born in Germany. For two and a half years she had been an observer of the Bible Sabbath, and we confidently expect she will have a part in the first resurrection.

CARL R. HERRGUTH.