DIED -- In Perry Twp., Richland County, Ohio, April 20th., 1874, ALBERT ELSWORTH, son of Samuel and Mary E. Culp, aged 12 years, 11 months and 20 days.

Albert was a good and obedient boy.  While on his sick bed he talked about dying, and in his last hours he told his mother, brother and sisters to meet him in Heaven.  He wanted his grandmother, his Aunt Sarah, Freddie and all his school-mates to meet him in Heaven above.

An additional article about the passing of young Albert appeared in the issue dated 01 May 1874 (Vol. 3, No. 7) ...

DARLINGTON, O. -- April 25th., 1874 --  Another gem is gone.  Death has entered the family of Mary E. Culp, and has taken Ellsworth her youngest son near 13 years of age.  His death occurred April 20th., 1874, of diptheria.  He had been seized by that disease about eleven days previous, and lingered until nature could not endure any longer.  His throat was so badly affected that it was impossible for him to swallow anything -- scarcely could he endure to take a cup of water without strangulation.  His medical attendant was as good as our country could afford, yet his skill failed to arrest the disease until too late to save life or prove successful.  Ellsworth bore his sickness with much resignation, and seemingly appeared conscious of his portended dissolution.

He was the pride of his mother, the delight of a sister, and the favorite of a brother.  He was an obedient son and an intelligent boy, possessing rather more than an ordinary development.  His friends no doubt anticipated a marked and successful life of usefulness, had he lived to attain manhood and old age.  Indeed 'tis sore to part with friends, yet Revelation teaches us that "death has passed upon all men".  We therefore should readily become resigned to what nature has so fixed and declared unalterable, and say with Job, the Lord gave and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord.

The funeral was largely attended and a very good discourse delivered by Rev. H. Faus, from Eccl. vii:2, "It is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting." 

May the spirit of Him that rules the destinies of men, induce all who read these lines to consider that they too must die, and render an account to God for the improvement or misimprovement of this life, remembering that "whatsoever man soweth that shall he also reap" &c.

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