Death of Mary Loveland
By Albert Stone
It becomes our painful duty to announce the death of another daughter of brother and sister Loveland, of Johnson Vt. Yes, Mary too has gone. She died Sabbath morning, Dec. 12th, aged seventeen years and fifteen days. Consumption had marked her for its victim, and since last Spring she had been declining. She continued about eight weeks after being reduced to great weakness, during which her sufferings were extreme. Her intervals of rest were few and short. She would sometimes ask her mother to pray for her that she might have a little rest, and would herself engage in vocal prayer for a few moments' rest. She longed even for the rest of the grave. She was greatly sustained during her protracted and painful illness, by the hope of the gospel, and said to her friends, that she would not willingly exchange conditions with them. She died in full expectation of having part in the first resurrection. This is the third time within about two years that brother and sister Loveland have been called to lay a beloved daughter in the grave; but they are comforted with the hope that their children shall come again from the land of the enemy, and return to their own border. Funeral services were attended by the writer, and a discourse founded on Jer. xxxi, 15-17, was presented to a crowded audience on the occasion, in which was set forth the hope of the church concerning the righteous dead. Albert Stone. Eden, Vt, Dec, 18th, 1857.