At his residence, in Nicholson township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, after a protracted illness of several week's duration, on the 20th day of February 1873, Brother. SOLOMON HONSAKER, in the 70th year of his age.

His remains were interred at the Masontown Mennonite Church on the 22nd, where a funeral sermon was preached by J. S. Gibson of the C. P. Church to a very large concourse of relatives and friends, who had assembled on that occasion to pay their last tribute of respect to him, who had been long and favorably known, and highly esteemed in the community.

Brother Solomon Honsaker from the first of his sickness, seemed to entertain a presentiment that he would not recover. He became united with the church many years ago, when a young man; and was very seldom absent from his seat in the house of God on the Sabbath during the course of his life. When assailed and prostrated by disease he submitted in his affliction, with a christian humility and fortitude that evinced his faith in the promises of God.

As death in its progress approached him, his prospects of a glorious immortality brightened - and thus sustained his sorrowing family and friends, under the afflictive dispensation. He would frequently unite with the brethren in their devotional exercises, and join them in singing, although laboring under a painful, bronchial affection. On one occasion he sang a favorite hymn entirely through by himself, only a few days previous to his death.

The good impressions of his religious instruction and counsel to his children and many relatives and friends will not be easily effaced, or soon forgotten by them; but as bread cast upon the waters will re-appear many days thereafter.

He was son-in-law of Bishop Nicholas Johnson, and his next neighbor from the time of his marriage until his death.