OBITUARY by John Norton Loughborough

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 25, 1862

OBITUARY.

By John Norton Loughborough

SISTER Nancy, wife of Bro. D. M. Harper, of Saline, Mich., died of typhoid fever and inflammatory canker, Feb. 6, aged thirty-eight years.

Sister Harper formerly belonged to the Baptist church in Seneca Co., N. Y. She moved to the State of Michigan in 1844, and brought a letter from the Baptist church, but never united with any church until she heard Brn. Waggoner and Frisbie give a few lectures in Sylvan, Mich., some six years since, and commenced to keep the Sabbath. She has since that time lived a consistent and faithful member of the Seventh-day Adventist church.

On the 19th of Feb., 1861, Bro. and sister Harper lost their youngest son, Arthur A., aged four years and ten months, of diptheria. Her grief was great at this loss, and she probably never recovered fully from the shock. About three months since she was attacked with the fever, and by that and canker slowly wasted away till her death. Although she was a great sufferer, she bore her sufferings with patience, and died as calmly as the setting of the summer sun. The writer spoke to a large and attentive audience at the funeral, from 2 Cor. i, 3-5.

J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.

It becomes my painful task to record the death of my youngest brother, George S. Blakely, who died at the Tipton hospital, of the measles, Jan. 1, 1862, aged 23 years.

ELVIRA B. STEVENSON. Flowerfield, Mich.