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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 19, 1861

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 18, No. 25.

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OBITUARY.

By John Byington

DIED of consumption, Nov. 4, 1861, in Mendon, Mich., Persis, wife of Harvey White, and daughter of Josiah Lyon, Esq., of Orleans Co., Vt.
Sister White with her companion had resided in this town 21 years. She embraced the present truth two years ago last August while Brn. Loughborough and Andrews were with the tent in the town of Park. Soon after that meeting we called at her house, and she gave us the following relation of her experience:
Her father was deacon of a Baptist church in Vermont, where she had been early taught the principles of religion. She had made no public profession, but for many years past she had been looking for a people whose religion had less conformity to the world than the religion of the day. She with her companion started for the tent one Sunday, were too late, and went into the Methodist meeting, which was near. The preacher labored very hard to prejudice his hearers against the preaching at the tent, and warned them against going to hear. This increased her anxiety, and she embraced the first opportunity to hear for herself. She thought she never heard so much Bible in one sermon, and went home, commenced keeping the Lord's Sabbath, received baptism, and though from ill health could attend meeting but little, yet she was doing the best she could to obey the truth. Her confidence in her Saviour was strong up to the hour of her death. May her companion follow her example in obeying the truth. A sermon was preached at the funeral by Bro. Hull, to a large and attentive congregation.
The above notice of her death is written by the request of her companion, and also of Bro. Hull.
I would also say that sister Maria, wife of Orrin Bovee, of the same church and town, fell asleep last May. I should have noticed this before, but had not the dates. She embraced the truth at the same tent-meeting, was baptized by Bro. Loughborough, and was one of the faithful of the Lord, loved by all, and died in hope of the first resurrection and eternal life.
JOHN BYINGTON.