OBITUARY.
We are in receipt of a letter from Mechanicsburg, Illinois, announcing the death of Father Dutton, long a resident of that Village.
Mr. Dutton was 89 years of age, a minister of the Gospel, and is known throughout this section of the State by nearly all of the old citizens. He died on Saturday, the 21st of February. The account says he had ate his dinner, and remarked, "I will prepare some wood for Sabath(sic)" and soon after entered the house with an armful of wood, opened the door of the room in which his wife was sitting, sat down in a chair and called his wife, she immediately went to him, summoning a gentleman in the next room, in three minutes he was dead. He left this world calmly and without a struggle.
Thus passed from this earth, a true christian, having done his work on earth a kind providence relieved him of the cares and trials of this earth and called him to his "home in Heaven." In an acquaintance of over fifteen years with this venerable old man, we have known few men possessed with the same Christian qualities, true to his creator, earth had no suitable reward for him, to God alone could he look for a just recompense, for trials endorsed and labor performed as one of Christ's ministers.
We sympathize with the bereaved widow and his numerous relatives and friends.
Illinois State Chronicle; Decatur, Illinois.
March 5, 1857; Page Two.
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We are in receipt of a letter from Mechanicsburg, Illinois, announcing the death of Father Dutton, long a resident of that Village.
Mr. Dutton was 89 years of age, a minister of the Gospel, and is known throughout this section of the State by nearly all of the old citizens. He died on Saturday, the 21st of February. The account says he had ate his dinner, and remarked, "I will prepare some wood for Sabath(sic)" and soon after entered the house with an armful of wood, opened the door of the room in which his wife was sitting, sat down in a chair and called his wife, she immediately went to him, summoning a gentleman in the next room, in three minutes he was dead. He left this world calmly and without a struggle.
Thus passed from this earth, a true christian, having done his work on earth a kind providence relieved him of the cares and trials of this earth and called him to his "home in Heaven." In an acquaintance of over fifteen years with this venerable old man, we have known few men possessed with the same Christian qualities, true to his creator, earth had no suitable reward for him, to God alone could he look for a just recompense, for trials endorsed and labor performed as one of Christ's ministers.
We sympathize with the bereaved widow and his numerous relatives and friends.
Illinois State Chronicle; Decatur, Illinois.
March 5, 1857; Page Two.
dm wms (#47395868)
OBITUARY.
We are in receipt of a letter from Mechanicsburg, Illinois, announcing the death of Father Dutton, long a resident of that Village.
Mr. Dutton was 89 years of age, a minister of the Gospel, and is known throughout this section of the State by nearly all of the old citizens. He died on Saturday, the 21st of February. The account says he had ate his dinner, and remarked, "I will prepare some wood for Sabath(sic)" and soon after entered the house with an armful of wood, opened the door of the room in which his wife was sitting, sat down in a chair and called his wife, she immediately went to him, summoning a gentleman in the next room, in three minutes he was dead. He left this world calmly and without a struggle.
Thus passed from this earth, a true christian, having done his work on earth a kind providence relieved him of the cares and trials of this earth and called him to his "home in Heaven." In an acquaintance of over fifteen years with this venerable old man, we have known few men possessed with the same Christian qualities, true to his creator, earth had no suitable reward for him, to God alone could he look for a just recompense, for trials endorsed and labor performed as one of Christ's ministers.
We sympathize with the bereaved widow and his numerous relatives and friends.
Illinois State Chronicle; Decatur, Illinois.
March 5, 1857; Page Two.
dm wms (#47395868)
We are in receipt of a letter from Mechanicsburg, Illinois, announcing the death of Father Dutton, long a resident of that Village.
Mr. Dutton was 89 years of age, a minister of the Gospel, and is known throughout this section of the State by nearly all of the old citizens. He died on Saturday, the 21st of February. The account says he had ate his dinner, and remarked, "I will prepare some wood for Sabath(sic)" and soon after entered the house with an armful of wood, opened the door of the room in which his wife was sitting, sat down in a chair and called his wife, she immediately went to him, summoning a gentleman in the next room, in three minutes he was dead. He left this world calmly and without a struggle.
Thus passed from this earth, a true christian, having done his work on earth a kind providence relieved him of the cares and trials of this earth and called him to his "home in Heaven." In an acquaintance of over fifteen years with this venerable old man, we have known few men possessed with the same Christian qualities, true to his creator, earth had no suitable reward for him, to God alone could he look for a just recompense, for trials endorsed and labor performed as one of Christ's ministers.
We sympathize with the bereaved widow and his numerous relatives and friends.
Illinois State Chronicle; Decatur, Illinois.
March 5, 1857; Page Two.
dm wms (#47395868)
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