In North Loup, Neb., Aug. 7th, 1878, Mrs. Mary Loofboro, widow of David Loofboro, in the 80th year of her age. The deceased came here from her home in Welton, Iowa, some six weeks since, with her daughter, Mrs. Amaranda Van Horn, with whom she has lives since her husband's death, to visit another daughter, Mrs. Emily Terry, and her aged sister, Mrs. Rebecca Davis, and other relatives who live at this place. She came here apparently in good health, and was as spry and cheerful as a woman of forty. She had visited all her friends, when she was taken sick, and after a brief illness, died at her daughter's residence, in the triumph of the Christian faith. She was a woman of more than ordinary intelligence, and her rich experience in spiritual things had prepared her to meet death with that sublime resignation which only the Christian can feel. From a paper found in her trunk, and evidently prepared by herself about one year ago, we learn that she was baptized at the age of seventeen years, in "Middle Island Creek, Va., by Zebulon Maxson - a minister zealous for the truth, who preached in the neighborhood every two weeks at private houses - Simeon Maxson assisting," and was soon after "received into the Salem Church by Eld. John Davis." From that time it sees that she held a membership with some one of the Seventh-day Baptist churches, and was ever loyal and devoted to the church with which she was identified. At her death, she was a member of the Welton Church. In a visit with her at the writer's own house, only a week before her death, she spoke of her deep interest in the welfare of that church, and said many kind words of her pastor, Eld. H. B. Lewis, which would cheer him in his work could he have heard them. She has five children living, all having families of their own, and all members of some one of our churches. A mother should regard it her special mission to train up her children in the Lord, and having so well done her mission work, every lover of Christ's cause should hold dear the memory of the deceased. Her funeral sermon was preached from Psa. 116: 15. "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints." G. B.
