---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1840 to 1841.
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: 2
number: 12
published: 1841-04-15
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* 2, no. 12 (April 15, 1841): 389."
printed_title: OBITUARY.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-04-15_2_12
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n12.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_1841-04-15_2_12
start_page: 389
end_page: 389
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 1841 (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_1841-04-15_2_12
  publication_year: 1841
---

# Obituary

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Died,-Jan. 2nd in Laporte, Ia. Jas. Whittry, aged 40 years.

Dec; 16th Joseph Jarvis, aged 49 years. They were both from Canada, on their way to the place appointed for the gathering of the saints, and have left their bereaved families as pilgrims in a strange land. May the widow's God be their God, and the orphan's Father their Protector!