Obituary Notices by John Norton Loughborough

California Conference of Seventh-day Adventists · Oakland, Cal. · Apr 15, 1875

Obituary Notices.

By John Norton Loughborough

DIED, at St. Helena, Cal., April 8, of old age, sister Louisa Thompson, in the seventy-ninth year of her age. Sister Thompson made a profession of religion when nineteen years of age, and united with the Presbyterian church, of which she was a member until about twenty months since, when she embraced the doctrines of Seventh-day Adventists, and united with the church in St. Helena of which she was a beloved, active, and worthy member to the day of her death.

In the case of sister Thompson we have a striking instance of the faculties of mind in full exercise to an advanced age. While her body was failing under the weakness of age, her mind was vigorous, and, till within two days of her death, she read her Bible and other books mostly without glasses. She thus eagerly read the whole of the Signs of April 1.

"She sleeps in Jesus, blessed sleep, From which none ever wake to weep."

At the funeral, remarks were made by the writer to a large concourse of people. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.