OBITUARY by John Norton Loughborough

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 15, 1861

OBITUARY.

By John Norton Loughborough

DIED, Jan. 4th, at her father's residence in Onondaga, Jackson Co., Mich., sister Josephine E. Wolcott, aged 21 years and 5 months. Sister Wolcott first professed a hope in Christ some two years since among the Episcopal Methodists while attending school at Albion, Mich. About two months after, she heard Bro. Bates give a course of lectures, and embraced the present truth. She was baptized by the writer some nine months since at the Tompkins conference. Since her profession of faith in Christ she ever endeavored to walk in the ways of the Lord, and was beloved by all who knew her. About a month since she was taken with a fever and slowly wasted away till the morning of Jan. 4th, when she sweetly fell asleep in Jesus.

She breathed her last as calmly as the setting of a summer sun. Being an only daughter, her loss is deeply felt by her parents and brothers. May this affliction be sanctified to their good, and all find an interest in the blessed hope, that they may meet Josephine in that kingdom where sorrow, pain and death can never come.

The funeral was attended on the 6th inst. by a large concourse of people. The writer spoke on the occasion with great liberty from 2 Sam. xiv, 14.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.