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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 13, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 51, No. 24.

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Obituary Notices.

“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.”
Died in Wright, Ottawa Co., Mich., May 28, Solomon D. Covey, aged 59 years and 8 months.
The circumstances under which Bro. Covey died were distressing in the extreme. On the day of his death he was in the enjoyment of usual health, and was employed in rolling a piece of ground which he was preparing for spring crops. Desiring either to straighten the chain or to disengage the oxen from the roller, he passed between them for the purpose of accomplishing his object, when suddenly they sprang forward, and, despite the efforts of one of Bro. Covey’s sons, who stood in front of them, ran at a furious rate for some distance, while Bro. Covey, clinging to the tongue with one arm, was dragged over the ground by them until he was compelled at last to release his hold and fall prostrate upon the ground. While in this position the roller passed over a portion of his body inflicting such serious injuries that he lived only for a few moments.
Bro. Covey, through the labors of Eld. J. B. Frisbie, some twenty years since, was converted from infidelity to the present truth, and has, we believe, from that time to the present, been an observer of the Lord’s Sabbath and a believer in the near coming of Christ. The natural kindness of heart which was ever so marked in him had secured the respect of the people generally in the community in which he lived. We have seldom witnessed a funeral where deeper sympathy was manifested by the neighbors of the deceased than was shown on this occasion. There were in attendance at least five hundred persons, many of whom were unable to find seats within the church.
Bro. Covey leaves a large family of children to mourn his loss; but through the industry of himself and wife, who survives him, they are in comfortable circumstances so far as this world’s goods are concerned.
The funeral discourse was preached by the writer, on the morning of the 31st of May.
W. H. LITTLEJOHN,
Died of diphtheria, in Marshalltown, Iowa, May 17, 1878, our only son, Amos, aged 8 years and 9 months. He trusted in Jesus the Lifegiver, that he would raise him to immortality in a little while.
A little while amid the surging billows, A little while beneath affliction’s rod, A little while, my son, in death’s pale slumber,— Then we shall walk the city of our God.
Once more the loving arms shall twine around us, Once more the cheek be pressed in holy joy, When we upon the gold-paved streets of Eden Shall walk again with our own darling boy.
Oh, blessed hope! “Oh, blessed hour victorious!” Which does the weary, aching heart beguile, When friend embracing friend in rapture glorious Shall realize ’tis past,—the little while.
O. M. AND T. F. OLDS.
Died at New Era, Neb., May 24, 1878, Sr. Hulda Copsey, aged 36 years and 9 months. An affectionate husband and six children mourn her loss. Sr. C. embraced the doctrines of the Seventh-day Adventists under the labors of Bro. Chas. L. Boyd, and united with the Farmers Valley church two years ago. She remained a devoted and faithful worker in the cause until her death. Words of comfort by the writer, from Rev. 14:13.
H. A. JENKINS.
Died of consumption, in Fairhaven, Mass., May 25, 1878, Sr. Sarah Chase, in the eighty-first year of her age. Sr. Chase embraced the present truth in its early days, under the labors of Eld. Joseph Bates. Her life was one of sacrifice and devotion to the cause of God, and she went down to the grave with a firm hope of coming up in a little while, when the Lifegiver comes. Funeral the 28th, on which occasion remarks were made from 1 Cor. 15:26.
D. A. ROBINSON.
Died at Page, Va., May 21, 1878, Polly Good, wife of Bro. George Good, aged 61 years, 10 months, and 21 days. Her sickness, which lasted only two days, was painful. She was a Sabbath-keeper, and looked for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, at which time she expected to receive her reward.
Funeral discourse by the writer, to a large audience, from 1 Cor. 15:21.
J. W. DADISMAN.