Obituary

DIED-In this city, Jan. 25th, Mary, consort of Samuel H. Smith, aged 31 years. She has left four small children, an affectionate companion, and numerous relatives and friends to mourn her loss, a loss which is easier felt than described. Mrs. Smith was one of the first who embraced the fullness of the gospel in the New England States. She was a resident, of the city of Boston, Mass. surrounded with friends and the comforts of life, but there was no sacrifice too great for her to make for Jesus Christ and his caused; and in A. D. 1833, in company with Miss Coolbrith, (now the companion of my bosom,) she bid farewell to friends and connexions [connections], and every thing most dear, and traveled the distance of one thousand miles to Kirtland, Ohio, with no human protector but the one above named, to associate with the saints, in obedience to the commands of God, and the instructions of the inspired Prophets and Apostles.

She has ever manifested a willingness to endure persecution and affliction for Christ's sake, and it has been her lot to suffer much for the sake of the gospel; her companion being stript [stripped] of his goods and made desolate by the enemies of truth, they suffered much in journeying to Missouri, being exposed for the want of the comforts of life.

They located in Daviess co. Mo, and while in child bed she was driven from her home by an infatuated mob, and exposed to a violent storm in the midst of an open prairie for several days, which brought her nigh unto death; she however recovered to witness more distressing scenes, all of which would be lengthy to ennumerate [enumerate], and too disgraceful to harrow up the soul of the reader: we will state however, that before she had recovered of her illness, her companion had to flee for his life and leave her to the mercy of an enfuriated [infuriated] community, while he wandered through the wilderness for the space of fourteen days without seeing one white inhabitant, and the most of the time without food. The reader can judge that her journey to Illinois must be attended wiih [with] suffering, being robbed of their all;-but she is gone-she "rests from her labors," she has been patient in all her afflictions-has kept the faith, and will inherit eternal life, which is the greatest gift of God.-Ed.

-In this city, Jan. 5th, Phebe Ann, consort of Benj. R. Bently, aged 34 years. Sister Bently was formely [formerly] the wife of the brave D. W. Patten who fell a martyr in Missouri. She has suffered much from the power of disease, which was occasioned in consequence of her exposures. Her life has been an example of piety-she has lived a saint, and has fallen asleep in the triumphs of faith, and having died in the Lord, no doubt she will have part in the first resurrection.

-Near Naples, Scott co., Ill., on the 21st day of Aug. 1840, Casander, consort of Wm. Harper, aged 35 years.

-Near Exeter, Scott co. Ill. Sept. 2nd, 1840, Mary Ann, daughter of Wm. and Casander Harper, aged 5 months and four days.

-In Fulton co. Ill. Minerva, consort of Asa Earl, aged 24 years.

-In this city, Dec. 21st, 1840, Charlotte, consort of James M. Henderson, aged 24 years.

[Communicated.]

-In West Milton, Ohio, of typhus fever, on the 30th ult. 1841, Mary, wife of H. Fate M. D. and daughter of Abraham and Anny Wilson, in the 27th year of her age. In life she was intelligent, faithful, and kind, in sickness patient, in death submissive and resigned. She expressed her feelings as follows, I do rejoice that we live in a day when we can enjoy the fulness [fullness] of the everlasting gospel-she was truly comforted in her last moments by its benign influence, her pain was removed, her mind quieted, her soul comforted through all her illness, and the pangs of death withstood: she did pray for her friends individually that they might come to a knowledge of the truth even as she had embraced it; just before she expired requested her husband to sing the hymn "How firm a foundation ye saints of the Lord," &c. We sorrowed, but not as those who have no hope; death has a sting, the grave has a victory now, but thanks be to God who will give us the victory when the last enemy shall be conquered, when the devil who hath the power of death shall be bound, Amen.

City of Nauvoo, Jan. 29th, 1841.

Brother D. C. Smith.-

Dear Sir,

I wish to insert, in the Times and Seasons, the Obituary of the wife of my youth.-She departed this life on the 18 Inst. being 51: years, 4 months, and 8 days old. She was from her childhood almost a christian; and at the age of 16 made a profession of religion, and was zelous [zealous] and divotional [devotional] in all communications and manners-believing the laws of Moses and the Prophets, as also, the sayings of Jesus the holy apostles and evidently was looking for the personal appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. And in the month of May, in A. D. 1829, received the Book of Mormon, and on the first reading believed it a true history, and longed to see the author and the despised people; (having only heard that there was such a people;) and in the month of April, 1831, we first heard the gospel preached, when she heard she believed with all her heart and immediately obeyed the heavenly mandate; and on the morning of the 13 of April, we were both baptized for the remission of our sins, and from that hour her heart was fixed on gathering, living, and suffering with the saints of the last days; the latter of which she has shared liberally, in the gathering at and dispersion

from Kirtland Ohio, and she was found at Far West, Mo. suffering the disgraceful insults of a Missouri mob, and there being like many others, deprived of her husband and also her property, under Gov. Boggs' (hell born) exterminating order, and Gen. Clark's administration: alone, with her four daughters and a little son, she was compelled to make her pasport [passport], a distance of 200 miles in the month of January, 1839, by waggon [wagon)], lodging in the same by night. The deprivations and sufferings of that journey, laid the foundation of that fatal disease (the inflamatory [inflammatory] rheumatism,) which after suffering the severest pains for the of space two years and more it terminated her natural life, and the least that can be said of this saint; she was a constant affectionate, and faithful companion, a mother-a watchful follower of Christ-inflexible in every duty, and finally was perfected in suffering and died a martyr to the religion of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I believe will have a part in the first resurrection.

Believe me, dear brother, your very affectionate friend and brother in the Lord,

JOHN P. GREENE.