In Walla Walla, W. T., Sept. 28th, 1879, of erysipelas, Eld. Stephen Maxson, aged 62 years, 11 months, and 21 days. Bro. Maxson was born in Berlin, Rensselaer Co., N. Y. His parents were members of the Seventh-day Baptist church, and at the early age of thirteen he found favor with God, and from this time to the day of his death he lived an active Christian life. He ever kept the Sabbath of the Lord, the seventh day, and was a firm and zealous advocate of it, both by precept and example.
Soon after his marriage, he moved to Milton, Wis., and in 1859 to the Walla Walla Valley, being one of the pioneers of this new country. In 1868, he embraced the views of the Seventh-day Adventists.
He gave the best of evidence, so all who were with him during his short illness of only eight days, that the Saviour, in whom he had trusted for fifty years, was very near to him in the dying hour.
Words of comfort were spoken to the mourners, and to all, on the funeral occasion, by Rev. P. B. Chamberlain, pastor of the Congregational Church of Walla Walla. J. D. V. H.
