OBITUARY by H. James Kittle

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 23, 1862

OBITUARY.

By H. James Kittle

“FELL asleep in Jesus, near Fremont, Sandusky Co. Ohio, Aug. 9, 1862, sister Susan S. Kittle wife of H. James Kittle, aged 52 years wanting 2 days. Her disease was billious fever. Her sickness lasted nine days, during which time she suffered much, and there seemed to be nothing done that could arrest the disease until it had accomplished its work.

Her attention was first called to the claims of God's law, during the fall of 1856 by Bro. Jesse Dorcas; and in the winter of 1856 and 7, Brn. Holt and Cornell came to our place and preached the present truths of the Bible in the demonstration of the Spirit, and she with six others embraced the truth, and bowed submissively to God's law and were excluded from the Baptist church because they loved the law of God better than that organization.

She was ready to embrace truth as fast as it was presented. It was her delight to not only read but study Dr. White's visions, and heed their admonitions as coming from the Lord. When the subject of organization came up she was one of the first to embrace and love it. She was anxious that the church in this place should adopt systematic benevolence, and when they neglected to do so, she said to me, we can adopt it as a family if the church does not; and we adopted it from the time of the conference at Lovett's Grove.

Her family and friends deeply feel her loss, but we mourn not as those who have no hope, for we believe that all of us who are so happy as to have part in the first resurrection will meet her.

“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.”

H. JAMES KITTLE.