---
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: 19
published: 1841-08-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“Afflicting Casualty,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 19 (August 1, 1841): 502."
printed_title: Afflicting Casualty.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-08-01_2_19
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n19.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_1841-08-01_2_19
start_page: 502
end_page: 502
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_1841-08-01_2_19
  publication_year: 1841
---

# Afflicting Casualty

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Drowned-In this city July 23rd, Samuel W. aged 8 years, and James F. C. aged 6 years both children of Stephen and Mary Luce, formerly of Maine.

In this afflicting occurrence the parents have been deprived of two very promising boys, who bid fair to have been useful gems, stars of merit: thy they have been taken from the evil to come, they sleep in Christ, and when the first trump shall sound they will come forth with the just, because they died in the Lord, and the scriptures saith, "Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord" "they shall have part in the first resurrection."