OBITUARY by Jos. Dudley

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 10, 1861

OBITUARY.

By Jos. Dudley

It becomes my painful duty to record the deaths of three lovely babes, only children of Bro. and Sister Blodget, of Gilboa, Ohio. Eva died Oct. 6th, aged three years and nine months; Ann died Nov. 27th, aged one year and twenty-eight days; William died Nov. 29th, aged two years six months and twenty days.

These children suffered much for some days by the disease called diphtheria. Thus are our brother and sister called to part with their family; and while our deepest sympathies are called forth in their behalf, we hope they will be remembered in the prayers of God's dear people, that they may be sustained under this great bereavement.

Gone to your rest, darlings: Sweet be your sleep, While the heart-stricken parents In loneliness weep.

But the bright hope cheers them, That Christ soon will come, To take all his loved ones To heaven, their home.

Jos. DUDLEY.

Gilboa, Ohio, Dec. 3, 1861.