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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 21, 1878

Obituary Notices.

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

Eld. Geo. W. Holt, a pioneer of present truth, fell asleep, of a complication of diseases, at his residence in North Scriba, Oswego Co., N. Y., Dec. 27, 1877. He was born in Abington, Conn., April 18, 1812. His age was 65 years, 8 months, and 9 days. He had a family of eleven children, of whom only five are living to mourn his loss.

He was a public laborer in the first, second, and third messages. After the passing of the time in 1844, he was among the first to embrace the light of the Sabbath, as it shone out from a view of the sanctuary in Heaven. In 1850, he was connected with Eld. James White in the publication of a small paper called The Advent Review, published at Auburn, N. Y. He afterward traveled and preached in Canada and New York, also in Ohio, where he lived some years; but finally, on account of failing health, he came back, with his feeble companion, to spend his last days near his eldest daughter, in North Scriba, N. Y. His labors were characterized by deep piety, and a zeal in accordance with the importance of the work. And although not laboring in the field for the last fourteen years of his life, wherever he was he has always advocated the coming of the Lord.

A large concourse of people gathered at the Methodist church, where they listened to a discourse by Eld. G. D. Ellis, Methodist, assisted in the services by two others, one Baptist and one Methodist. Text, Rev. 14:13. Very appropriate remarks were made by all. We mourn; but not as those without hope, for those who die in Christ will the Lord bring with him. May the Lord greatly bless his aged companion, and his children.

A. M. Lindsley.

Died of spinal complaint, in Greenville, Mich., Jan. 29, 1878, Josephine Shepley, aged 45 years. Sister Shepley came to this country from France when quite young, and embraced the third angel’s message about twenty-two years ago. Though under unfavorable circumstances, she has faithfully adhered to the faith of her choice, adorning her profession by a well ordered life. Her last sickness was very painful and lingering. A companion is the only relative left to mourn her departure; yet the church can but sensibly feel the loss they will sustain in their prayer and social circles. They laid her away in hope of the Lifegiver’s return. Funeral services by the writer.

J. O. Corliss.

Died of consumption, in Mapleton, Blue Earth Co., Minn., Dec. 26, 1877, in the twentieth year of her age, sister Bertha Decken, daughter of Bro. and sister N. E. Decken. We sorrow not as those who have no hope; for we feel assured that Bertha will come again from the land of the enemy. Words of comfort by Eld. J. E. Conrad.

David Alway.

Died, at South Vineland, N. J., Jan. 26, 1878, of congestion of the lungs, Bro. Robert Cochran, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. He and his companion were among the first who received the truths of the third angel’s message in New Hampshire. For the last eleven years he has been a resident of So. Vineland, where he has endeavored to scatter the seed of “present truth.” Some fruit is already manifest. He leaves seven children, of whom five are worthy members of the remnant church, to the tender care of the “Father of the fatherless.” He sleeps in Jesus. Funeral discourse by the writer, from Num. 23:10: “Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his.”

N. Orcutt.

Died of diphtheria, in Jackson, Mich., Jan. 15, 1878, Glennie, only son of Bro. and sister B. L. Francisco, aged 5 years and 2 months. Also on the 31st, of the same disease, their only daughter, Carrie, aged 8 years and 2 months. Words of comfort were spoken at the first funeral from Job 14:14, by Bro. E. P. Daniels. At the second a few remarks were made at the house from 1 Thess. 4:13, by the writer.

J. Taber.