Obituary Notices | AdventAI

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

Obituary Notices.

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

My dear father, Mark Newlan, peacefully fell asleep, in Lovington, Ill., Aug. 20, 1878, in the sixty-eighth year of his age. My father embraced the present truth four years ago, under the labors of Brn. Colcord and Bliss. His faith in the final triumph of the truth was ever firm, and he was a good worker in the cause. He was one of the early settlers in this country, and he leaves many friends to mourn his loss. But we expect to meet him when this corruptible shall put on incorruption. Jacob Newlan.

Bro. Matthew Young died of bleeding at the lungs, in Hector, Potter county, Pa., Sept. 6, 1878, in the forty-ninth year of his age. Bro. Young embraced the present truth last winter, under my labors. He attended our Sabbath meeting in the tent Aug. 31, and bore his testimony and offered his prayer for the last time among us. He knew that his end was near, and was ready. He leaves a wife and six small children to mourn his loss. Discourse from John 5:28, 29. J. G. Saunders.

Our little son, Lawrence V., died near Crescent City, Iowa, July 28, aged about two months. We are comforted by the hope that we shall soon meet him again. Funeral discourse by Bro. A. Petersen from Luke 7:11–16. L. P. and Ellen Nelson.

Julius Cæsar, son of Reuben and Susannah Worick, died of diphtheria, in Center township, Jewell county, Kansas, Sept. 15, 1878, aged 10 years, 8 months, and 11 days. We do not sorrow as those who have no hope. We expect to meet our dearly beloved son, when “the wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.” Isa. 35:1. Reuben and Susannah Worick.

Died, at her home in River Sioux, Harrison County, Iowa, Sept. 18, 1878, Mary Bean, aged 72 years. She was a native of the State of New Hampshire and emigrated, with her husband, to the State of Iowa in the year 1870. At an early age she was converted, and about four years ago she embraced the truths of the third angel's message under the labors of Eld. J. Bartlett. She has since been a sincere and devoted Christian, manifesting at all times her devotion to the cause of present truth, and we sorrow not as those without hope. Words of comfort by the writer from Rev. 14:13. Thomas J. Bryceson.

Died in Black Creek, Wis., Bro. Hume Lathrop, after a sickness of three days, aged 67 years and 3 days. His death was caused by a disease of the lungs and bowels. He was converted under the preaching of the advent message in 1841, and was an observer of the seventh-day Sabbath for the last eighteen years of his life. His careful and consistent life commanded the respect of all who knew him. Discourse by the writer from John 11:24. S. S. Smith.

Died, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. William Longmate, in the town of Cambria, Niagara county, N. Y., Sept. 6, 1878, Mrs. Fannie F. Longmate, widow of Deacon William R. Longmate, in the 79th year of her age. The deceased was born in Hoosick, Rensselaer Co., N. Y. She was married when quite young to Mr. D. P. Oliver, in Cazenovia, N. Y., from whence the youthful couple came as pioneers to the western part of the State of New York and settled in the town of Cambria, about three miles west from Lockport, about sixty-one years ago. Mr. Oliver died some years ago, and she afterward married Dea. Wm. Longmate, of Pendleton, whose death last winter left her the second time a widow. She embraced religion when quite young, but united with no church until 1844, when she joined the Baptist church in Lockport. Some time before her marriage with Dea. Longmate, she embraced the Sabbath and the views of the Seventh-day Adventists, but did not unite with the denomination. When the Seventh-day Baptist church of Clarence and Pendleton was organized, of which her husband was a deacon, she became one of its members. On the occasion of her funeral, at her request a discourse was preached from 1 Thess. 4:14. C. A. B.