---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1839 to 1840.
authors:
  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
editors:
  - Ebenezer Robinson
  - Don Carlos Smith
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
  - Taylor, John
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - newspaper
  - times-and-seasons
  - nauvoo
  - nineteenth-century
periodical: Times and Seasons
volume: 1
number: 12
published: 1840-10
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“Obituary,” *Times and Seasons* 1, no. 12 (October 1840): 191."
printed_title: Obituary.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-10_1_12
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v1n12.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair)
  identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-10_1_12
start_page: 191
end_page: 191
curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1840 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-10_1_12
  publication_year: 1840
---

# Obituary

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Died-In Springfield, Sangamon co. Ill. Sept. 11, Elijah Merriam aged 63 years and 6 months. Formerly a citizen of Watertown, Litchfield co. Connecticut.

-In Quincy on the 27th Sept. Miss Hanna K. Johnson, daughter of Amity Johnson, aged 23 years. After a lingering illness of three months, which she bore with christian fortitude, in the hope of a happy resurrection.

-On Bear Creek, in Adams co. on the 2 th inst. Polly, consort of Josiah Butterfield, aged 48 years and four days. Sister Butterfield has been ill for near 18 months.

-In this place on the 20th of Sept. Hannah Pratt, aged 23 years.

-In this place Marietta Holmes consort of Johnathan H. Holmes aged 20 years.

-In this place, Mary Emma, daughter of Jonathan H. and Marietta Holmes aged 3 months and 15 days.

-In this place Sept. 11th, Phebe Ann Pain, consort of Elias Pain, aged 31 years 1 month 25 days.