Nelson R. Stillman died at the home of his son, A. B. Stillman, near Nortonville, Kan., January 27, 1909.
Mr. Stillman was born in central New York, August 6, 1828, and was married to Miss Rosella Burdick in DeRuyter, N. Y., November 11, 1852, moving to Albion, Wis., the following year. He with his wife was baptized by Rev. James Rogers at West Hallock, Ill., about 1860. Later they moved to Wisconsin, to New Auburn, Minn., Farina Ill., and finally to Nortonville, Kan., in 1878, where he was a consistent and helpful member of the Seventh-day Baptist Church until his death. After the death of his wife, in 1900, he was a great sufferer for nearly nine years from diabetes.
There survive him a son, A. B. Stillman, a daughter, Mrs. Charles Wheeler, a brother, Anson P. Stillman, a half-sister, Mrs. D. C. Coon, all of Nortonville, and a sister, Mrs. Julia Barber of Ceres, N. Y. On account of scarlet fever in the family at the time of his death, memorial services were held in the Nortonville Seventh-day Baptist Church, Sabbath day, March 13, 1909, conducted by one of his former pastors, G. M. Cottrell, assisted by Rev. Isaac Maris. G. M. C.
