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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 27, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 45.

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DIED, in Salem, Oregon, Oct. 30, 1879, of typhoid pneumonia, aged about 17 years, Matilda C. Stephens, wife of Bro. Radway Stephens, daughter of James F. and Margaret Chitwood, of Damascus, Or. At the age of 15 she embraced the Christian religion and united with the Baptist church, from which she was excluded for keeping holy the Sabbath of the Lord.
She became convinced on the Sabbath at the S. D. A. camp-meeting in 1878, and was one of the first to unite with the church when one was organized in Damascus. She lived a consistent member, and died in the blessed hope of immortality. F.