Obituary by A. L. Anthony

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 2, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 34.

Obituary.

By A. L. Anthony

EGGLESTON.—Died May 24, 1889, at the Rural Health Retreat, near St. Helena, Cal., of chronic pneumonia, Amelia A. Eggleston, aged 64 years, 2 months, and 8 days. Sister Eggleston was born in Galena, Ill., where, at the early age of 14 she united with the Methodist Church, in whose fellowship she continued for about thirty-five years. In 1859, she, with her family, removed to California; and when, in 1873, Elds. Loughborough and Cornell, pitched their tent in Napa City (her home), she was among the first to take her stand with those "who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus." Since that time she has been a consistent and faithful member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church of Napa City,—filling acceptably at different times the offices of Sabbath-school secretary and church treasurer.

Her late sickness lasted about four months, the last two weeks of which were spent at the Retreat where every possible means were employed for her recovery, but in vain. Sister Eggleston had previously lost her husband and her two children; and the nearest relatives that survive her are a son-in-law and five grandchildren. The friends of deceased have the consolation that she lived a godly life and died in the "blessed hope" of a resurrection to immortal life at the hastening return of her Saviour. Funeral services were conducted at the Seventh-day Adventist Church of Napa City, by Rev. Richard Wylie (Presbyterian) who made appropriate remarks to a good congregation of sympathizing and sorrowing friends.

"Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep, From which none ever wake to weep." A. L. ANTHONY.