OBITUARY | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 27, 1862

OBITUARY.

Died in Reading, Mich., April 22, 1862, Franklin, only child of Brackett and Helen Castle, aged 1 year and 4 months—occasioned by the use of morphine.

W. B. CASTLE.

Sister Mary F. Carpenter, widow of the late Elder Belcher Carpenter, of Belvidere, Vt., died of heart disease, May 2, 1862, aged 59 years.

One of her daughters, in a note to the writer respecting her death, says:

"Dear mother, for five months, was a great sufferer, but was always patient and calm. O, how patient and willing when death and the grave were, as she well knew, only a step before her. She talked to us, and tried to comfort us; but there is no comfort for a broken heart. She had kept the Sabbath for more than eight years, and always, since my remembrance, lived a devoted, Christian life."

Sister Carpenter was a person of more than ordinary intellectual power, as well as deep piety. For many years she was the only Sabbath-keeper in the town in which she lived. She has left seven children, who deeply lament their loss of a much-loved mother. May they heed her counsels, and imitate her good examples.

ALBERT STONE.