Obituary Notices | AdventAI

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, January 1, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 1

Obituary Notices.

“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth.” Rev. 14:13.

HEMINGWAY.—Died of consumption, in Jamaica, Vt., July 21, 1879, Sister Mary Hemingway, aged 25 years. Sister Mary was a faithful member of the Andover church. She sleeps in Jesus, and it can be said of her, “Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord.” HORACE BURR.

JOHNSON.—Died of consumption, at Beaver Dams, N. Y., Nov. 25, 1879, Bro. Daniel Johnson, aged 48 years, 1 month, and 21 days. He had been a faithful and consistent Sabbath-keeper for 16 years. He will be greatly missed by his family, by the church, and by the community in which he resided. Words of comfort by the writer, from Rev. 22:12. T. M. LANE.

MEGGISON.—Died in Grand Ligne, P. Q., Nov. 13, 1879, of pneumonia, after ten days of severe suffering, but calm resignation to the will of the Lord, my dear mother, Mrs. Catharine Meggison, aged 71 years and 10 months. For nine years she had been a Sabbath-keeper and a firm believer in the third angel’s message; and she died in bright hope of meeting Jesus on the morning of the first resurrection. CATHARINE A. MEGGISON.

TINQUIST.—Died of consumption, in Somerset, Wis., Dec. 6, 1879, Bro. John Tinquist, aged 30 years, 10 months, and 19 days. We believe he sleeps in Jesus. He leaves a wife and three little ones, and a large circle of warm friends, but they mourn not as those without hope. Remarks by the writer, from Rev. 14:13, a text chosen by the friends. A. M. JOHNSON.

NELSON.—Died in Trowbridge, Allegan Co., Mich., Dec. 6, 1879, of typhoid pneumonia, Burgiss B. Nelson, aged 19 years. The deceased was a son of Sister Nelson, who is a widow, and a member of the S. D. A. church of Allegan. The deep sympathy felt for her by the community in which she lives, found expression in an unusually large attendance upon the funeral. The discourse was preached by the writer. W. H. LITTLEJOHN.

HAMILTON.—Died of fever, at her residence in Hamburg, Iowa, Nov. 1, 1879, our daughter, Mattie E., wife of Cicero Hamilton, aged 23 years, 6 months, and 19 days. She was a member of the Baptist church for some years, but about a year previous to her death she united with the S. D. Adventists. She leaves a child about two years old. Many friends mourn her loss, but not without hope. Funeral services in the Baptist church at Hamburg, conducted by C. F. Carman, First-day Adventist. T. W. AND A. M. STRONG.

GORDON.—Died of diphtheria, near Coopersville, Mich., Nov. 10, 1879, Freddie, son of Bro. and Sr. Henry Gordon, aged 9 years, 6 months, and 22 days; also a few days later, their son Frankie, in the thirteenth year of his age.

Concerning this sad bereavement Mr. E. O. Phillips, of Coopersville, Mich., says in the Spring Lake Republican: “Frankie was the pride and comfort of his parents, and now that he sleeps upon the hillside with his little brother Freddie, these fond parents are bowed with grief. Stern and cruel death has entered this family circle twice within a week and plucked two of the darling loved ones; and we can but offer our sympathy to this sorely afflicted father and mother. *”

RICE.—Died of typhoid fever, at Battle Creek, Mich., Nov. 20, 1879, Bro. Willie Rice, aged 22 years. Willie was the son of Bro. and Sr. E. J. Rice, of Loyal, Clark Co., Wis. More than three years ago he gave his heart to the Lord, to walk in all his commandments. He was a devoted, Christian young man. At the beginning of the fall term, he came to Battle Creek to attend school, and to fit himself to be of some service in the cause. His short acquaintance here won for him many friends among the students. He was faithful and conscientious in the discharge of all his duties. A large circle of friends mourn his death, but they are comforted with the assurance that he died in hope. Funeral services held in the Tabernacle. Remarks from John 11:25, by Eld. O. A. Olsen. A. J. BREED.

MCKAY.—Died, in Little Valley, N. Y., Dec. 3, 1879, my dear wife, Lucia Tryphena McKay, after a long and wearisome illness, which to the last she bore with great patience and Christian fortitude, trusting confidently in Him who is the “resurrection and the life,” that when He who is our life shall appear, she shall “appear with Him in glory.”

She embraced religion, was baptized, and joined the Freewill Baptist church, at the early age of nine years. As a matter of convenience, she remained with the F. W. B. church until quite recently, although she did not fully accord with them in sentiment, having ever been a strong believer in the seventh-day Sabbath, and many of the distinctive doctrines of the S. D. Adventists. She finally joined the S. D. A. church in East Otto in July, 1878, and was much rejoiced to find a church with which she was in full sympathy. She was a woman of strong and decided moral and religious convictions,—one who loved and encouraged every virtue, and hated every vice. She ever stood as a minute-man at her post of duty, sustaining all her relations to her family, the church, and her Saviour, with the most amiable Christian devotion; and her name will remain perfumed with her many Christian graces, and most endearing qualities as sister, wife, mother, and friend, as long as her memory shall live in the minds of her afflicted family and friends. A large and sympathizing audience of friends and neighbors were present on the funeral occasion. H. V. R. McKAY.