At his home in North Loup, Neb., on May 5, 1912, Nehemiah Bee, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. Brother Bee was the son of Josiah and Priscilla Davis Bee, and was born on June 17, 1837, in what is now West Virginia.
In 1860 he married Celina Lowther. Six years later the family removed from West Virginia to Freeborn County, Minn., and settled with some other West Virginia people, in the town of Carlston. While living here and when thirty years of age Nehemiah Bee made a public profession of the Saviour in whom he had before trusted and became a member of the Carlston Seventh-day Baptist Church.
When the Carlston society broke up, the family removed to North Loup, Neb., where the home has since been. Mrs. Bee died one year ago.
Brother Bee was a strong-minded, independent, conscientious, Christian man. He leaves one son, Raymond, and one daughter, Jennie, wife of Guy Clement, all of North Loup. Besides these there remain of his immediate family one sister and three brothers. G. B. S.
