Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1855 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

DIED—-March 20 th, at the residence of his sons, near Rensselaer, Jasper County, Fran*-is Downing in holy triumph, aged about 73 years. Father Downing joined the -M. E. Church in his twenty fist year, of; which he' was a consistent member for over fifty years. The moat of that time he filled the important offices of Class Leader, and Xte Church. He has left an aged wife. I a nurnbermfchildren,grand children.! quaintances. to mourn his loss; but they “sorrow not as those without j hope,’’ for he gave them as his last | legacy, the evidence that their loss is; his eternal gain. Let me die the; death of the righteous and let my last end be like his ”

H. BURGESS.

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