The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 40, No 44, p 5, Oct. 30, 1884.
At Mystic Bridge, Conn., Oct. 30, 1884, Elias Champlin, aged 88 years, 5 months, and 5 days. The subject of this notice was born in Hopkinton, R. I., but removed in early life to Waterford, Conn., where he married and resided in middle life.
About thirty years ago he removed to Mystic Bridge, (Greenmanville) Conn. He was a man universally respected and loved for his stainless life, his gentle, cheerful ways, and patient, untiring faithfulness in the discharge of life's work.
He made a profession of religion in early life, and down to old age, kept the purity, sweetness and trust of the Christian faith, and died in the confidence of a glorious immortality. He leaves one daughter, Mrs. Wm. B. Haynes, of Mystic Bridge, and one son, Horace Champlin, of Farina, Ill. O. D. S.