Alburtus B. Landphere was born March 13, 1846, at Unadilla Forks, Madison Co., N. Y., and died at Hammond, La., April 2, 1910.
A. B. Landphere was the son of Billings and Amanda Lewis Landphere. When about the age of seventeen he became a member of the Seventh-day Baptist Church at Leonardsville, N. Y., by a profession of faith in Christ, under the ministry of Elder Summerbell. In 1867, at the age of twenty-one, he removed to Albion, Wis. He was married in 1869 by Eld. Joshua Clarke to Miss Emma Brown at Edgerton, Wis. With his wife, Mrs. Emma Landphere, he came to Hammond, La., in 1888. They were charter members of the Hammond Seventh-day Baptist Church, having been in the organization of this church in 1888. He was a member of this church, at the time of his death, which was by an accident. He was struck by an incoming passenger train of the Illinois Central Railroad at the depot in Hammond, La. He leaves a wife and sister, Mrs. Ida Pierce, who lives at Edgerton, Wis.
The interment will be at Albion, Wis., by the side of his father. Religious services were held at his late residence, conducted by Pastor A. P. Ashurst. Text, I Thess. iv, 13: "Sorrow not, ... as others which have no hope." A. P. A.
