OBITUARY | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 14, 1859

OBITUARY.

BRO. SMITH: Will you please publish the following notice, and oblige the bereaved friends.

Died in Willing, Allegany Co., N. Y., June 26th, David M. Stillman, in the 22d year of his age. The circumstances of his death were to his friends of the most afflicting character. For the last year or more he has been under the influence of a partial mental derangement, occasioned by disease, and at times subject to deep melancholy and gloom of mind.

He was found dead in the woods a few rods from his father's house, shot in his head by his own hand, in a fit of melancholy.

He was a member of the Sabbath church in Willing, and before his derangement a believer in the Advent views. May the Lord give consolation to the afflicted father and mother, brothers and sister of the deceased. B. F. R.

Friendship, June 30th, 1859.

FELL asleep, July 1st, Rollins S., our only son, aged three years and six months. His disease was a tumor in the bowels, which measured at his death, thirty-three inches by twenty-seven round, and weighed eighteen and a half pounds; his whole weight being forty-four and a half. It had been growing three years, but he was able to walk until three months back, since which he has suffered intensely. Little Rollie has had the sympathies and prayers of the church, and often though he could not kneel, bowed his head and joined his voice in prayer. He often spoke of going up in the clouds to live with the Lord, and said if he died the Lord would come and take him out of the ground. Bro. Stone preached a comforting discourse from 1 Cor. xv, 26, and Jer. xxxi, 15, 17. ELIAS & ABBY COBB.

Roxbury, V., July 5th, 1859.