DEPARTED this life, Sept. 16th, 1855, Mary Sophronia, our only daughter, aged 6 years, 6 months and 13 days. Her disease was typhoid fever. The morning of her death she was asked, "Mary, do you want to get well?" She replied, "No, not no," and soon after fell asleep in Jesus without a struggle. In her death we have lost the loved one of our household. We no more hear her bounding footstep, nor her joyous laugh, nor see her little form kneeling around our family altar; but we rejoice in the time when she shall be brought again from the land of the enemy; and if faithful we shall be united again in the new earth to part no more.
Jos. J., & Laura H. Perkins.
Macomb Co., Mich., Sept., 1855.