OBITUARY | AdventAI

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 15, 1860

OBITUARY.

Bro. SMITH: We have been called to drink of the cup of affliction. On the 6th of Feb., 1860, death entered our dwelling and snatched from our embrace our beloved daughter, Margaret A. Smiley, an only child. She would have been 20 years old in a few days. Her disease was consumption. Her death was peaceful. She died with strong faith that she should have a part in the first resurrection. Said she, "I think it will be but a short time that I shall sleep. I believe Jesus will soon come and take his people home." She appeared to be truly reconciled, and manifested Christian patience all through her sickness. I feel that it has been in love and mercy that the Lord has afflicted us; but I need not tell you that I feel very lonely, as she was the only one to whom I could open my heart, and find sympathy.

Your sister in tribulation.

Hannah Smiley.

Palermo, Me.

My mother, Esther Conklin, fell asleep in Rose, Oakland Co., Mich., Jan. 30th, 1860, of consumption, aged 59 years. She has left a husband and a large family of children, together with a large circle of friends, to mourn her loss. She had been a great sufferer for many months, yet she bore her sufferings without a murmur. She had been a Sabbath-keeper for seven years, and was a full believer in the soon coming of Christ to restore all things. Although she could not talk much for months before her death, so incessant was her cough, yet she seemed perfectly resigned to the will of the Lord in all her sickness and sufferings. She felt that the Lord could make soft the pillow of death.

P. Conklin.