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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 19, 1862

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 20, No. 12.

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OBITUARY.

By Jacob Brinkerhoff

Fell asleep in Jesus, near Afton, Iowa, Aug. 5, 1862, Sr. Lucinda Westover, wife of Oliver S. Westover, aged about 27 years. Her disease was bilious fever. During the latter part of her sickness, which lasted two weeks, she was a great sufferer, but she bore her sufferings with patience, and died in bright hope of having a part in the first resurrection. She left a husband and two small children, who mourn for a dear companion and a kind mother. She was beloved by all who knew her. But we do not mourn as those who have no hope; for when the morn of the resurrection dawns, and Jesus calls those who are his, we hope to meet our sister where affliction, pain and death, are felt and feared no more. And we are assured in Rev. xiv, 13 that "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them."
"She sleeps in Jesus, soon to rise, When the last trump shall rend the skies; Then burst the fetters of the tomb, To wake in full, immortal bloom."
JACOB BRINKERHOFF.