In Albion, Wis., Dec. 25th, 1866, suddenly, of congestion and paralysis, Dea. Luke Coon, aged 62 years. The deceased was born in Berlin, N. Y., June, 1804. He experienced religion in DeRuyter, N. Y., and was baptized by the late Eld. Daniel Coon, and united with the Seventh-day Baptist Church in that place, in 1828. He moved to and settled in Portville, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., in 1833, and united with the Second Seventh-day Baptist Church in Genesee. In this church he was chosen and ordained to the office of deacon. He moved to Wisconsin, and settled in Albion, June, 1848, and subsequently united with the Seventh-day Baptist Church in this place, of which he remained a worthy and useful member until death. By this providence, the church are bereft of an active member, and the world of a moral luminary, and his wife, with whom he had lived nearly forty years, of an affectionate and devoted husband, and five surviving children, who have reached maturity, of one of the most indulgent and affectionate of fathers. All, however, have the comfortable assurance that their irreparable loss is the infinite gain of the departed. J. C.
