In Milton, Wis., Jan. 12th, 1874, of disease of the heart, Horace M. Haven, in the 49th year of his age. The deceased was born in Sangerfield, Oneida Co., N. Y., April 25th, 1825; was the son of John and Polly Haven; was married April 21st, 1853, to Rebekah K. Platts, daughter of Benjamin K. and Jane M. Platts, of Leonardsville, Madison Co., N. Y. Sister Haven died April 2d, 1869. Jan. 12th, 1871, Bro. Haven married Mary F. Maxson, widow of Charles R. Maxson, and daughter of Erastus S. and Lucy Ann Fitch, also of Leonardsville. Thus it will be seen that the death of Bro. Haven occurred on the third anniversary of the last marriage.
The deceased was taken ill about noon, and died the following evening about 8 o'clock. This event was not altogether unlooked for by the departed. He had been for some time conscious that some disease, which he feared was disease of the heart, was affecting him, yet he had not consulted a physician. He was, on the fatal day, attacked with pain in the chest, followed with fainting. The pain continued, though not so severe as at first, except in occasional spasms, in one of which he died. The nature of the attack was not apprehended at the time. A post mortem examination developed the fact of rupture of the aorta, this artery having, by disease, become for several inches, almost like brown paper. The deceased was a druggist, and his quiet, in-door life was evidently all that had saved him from a sudden death months before he died.
The news of his death has fallen upon the community like a thunderbolt from a cloudless sky. The event was wholly unexpected. Mr. Haven was the picture of health. He was rarely absent from his place of business during business hours. He was widely known, having resided in Milton for nearly eighteen years. He had resided previously resided for about a year, at Plainfield, N. J.; also two or three years at South Bend, Indiana. He was universally respected as a man of probity, and was deservedly esteemed for his many social and Christian virtues.
In his ecclesiastical connections, he was, by parentage and education, a Presbyterian. He embraced the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, from conscientious convictions, while residing at South Bend, and on coming to Milton to reside, he was immersed, and united with the Seventh-day Baptist Church, of which he remained a respected member until his death.
Mr. Haven enlisted in the Thirteenth Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers, which was raised during the second year of our late civil war, and served until the rebellion was crushed. He was Hospital Steward most of this time.
Bro. Haven was active in Christian duties, both public and private; he took a lively interest in our denominational enterprises, and especially our Sabbath School movements. He was a working member of the Sabbath School Board of the North-Western Association.
He will be greatly missed in the community where he had so long resided, and in the church where he loved to meet for worship, and especially in the now bereaved and stricken family, where he was a kind and faithful husband and father, and for the duties of which his social nature and habits eminently fitted him. He has left a pleasant earthly home for the blessed home, as we trust, in heaven.
The wife and two children, one of them a step-son of the departed, and a daughter by the first marriage, are, with Mother Platts, the surviving members of the family. The funeral of the deceased was largely attended, and a sermon preached by his pastor, from the Gospel by John 11: 28, "The Master is come and calleth for thee." L. C. R.
