The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1852-09-15

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At Edinburgh, August 26, SAMUEL Coz, aged 6s
years and months.
sNIr Coe emigrated from Granville, Mass, to Ohio
I'd settled in Rootstown, Seut. 1909 The last few
years he lived in lnbuTgh. Eeaily instruction in
the doctrines and duties of religion made deep and
lasting impressions ON his mind and exerted
trolling influence over his life from his childhood to
his death. He always strictly moral, and was
governed by principle, and not by the impulses of the
moment in all his dealings and intercourse with men.
He did not experience a change of heart and make
public profession of religion til he tiftyseEen
years old, but was always among the foremost and
irmest to support the Gospel, and none were more
constlnt AMI punt tual to attend public worship
the Sabbath. He was unless prevented by sickness,
always at the house Of God, with his family. the
Sabbath. He also prayed in bis family, and by his
pure morality and external performance of duty he
was laborng, as he confessed on his death-bed to
tablish righteousness of his own But in the year
1881, under the powerful influences of the Holy
Spirit, he found his righteousness to be but fl
thy rags and brought to give up all for Christ
and to derend entirely sover, ign grace for sal
vaton. From that time to his death, he honored his
profession. His life that OF consistent devoted
christian He thoroughly Calrinstic in his doc
trinal views He had enjoyed fine heakh. But few
at his age were free from the inrit1es of old age
as he Last winter he began to decline, and went
down gradually and died with consumption. He did
not experience paroxy OF pain, from the COM
mencement of his sickness to his DEATH Death found
him not unprepared, he was ready and waiting and
at times longed to have the hour of his departure
come. He said the great doctrines he had be,iev d
the support of his death bed, by stripping him
of every other dependence, and laying him over
tirsly upon the merits of Christ and the grace OF
| God. His reason continued to the last, and he fell
asleep sweety without a struggle or groan. The
church of which he was member, feel that the,
have sustained great loss in his death.
In Atwater, August 1Cti, Mrs. SARAH MATroo,. /.
Mrs. NJ. was born January 21st, 1861. She cam'
into Atwater, May 1906 when there were only five
families in the township.
She was the mother of eight children, all of whom
survive and reside in the township of Atwater, the
youngest being more than fifty years of age
She lived to see her descendants of the fifth genera
ton having had thirty grandchildren, seventy
one great grand children, and seven great ,grea
grandchildren.
Lois Tallcott, from the same place, died in Cleve
land, at the residence of her son. where she re
! siding temporarily, on the same day. Her remain
were carried to Atwater and her funeral attended
the same time with Mrs. Mattoon's. In the death
these two aged ladies, there was some coincident
worthy of notice.
They were both born the same year. and after hav
, ing been the two oldest persons in the township fc
a number of years, died the same day and were bot
buried at the same time. Their descendants had S
ntermarried, that in their DEATH child lost bot
of his grand-mothers, and six both of their grei
q | grand-nothers.
In Ravenna, on the 10th inst, ELIZABETH, infal
daughter of George and Sarah Jane Wisman age
9 weeks and days.