On the 8th of March, in Spring Garden, Lancaster co., Pa., Sister Anna Nissley, aged 86 yrs., 11 mos., and 16 days. She was buried on the 11th at Grabill's Meeting-house, where a large concourse of relatives and friends had assembled. Funeral discourses were delivered by Henry Shenk, and John B. Landis, in the German language, and by Jacob N. Brubaker, in the English, from Ps. 31: 6. The writer visited the aged sister four days before her death. She was still able to sit up in her chair. She loved to converse about the love and mercy of God, and her Savior, and expressed her hope of being accepted of God, through Jesus. She expressed her desire to depart and be at rest. She said she had been a member of the Mennonite church, over 65 years. Her life was one of trouble and sorrow; but she stood firm to the end, in the service of her Master. H. B. B.
[Herald of Truth - Volume IX, Number 4 - April 1872, page 62, 63]
[Herald of Truth - Volume IX, Number 4 - April 1872, page 62, 63]
On the 8th of March, in Spring Garden, Lancaster co., Pa., Sister Anna Nissley, aged 86 yrs., 11 mos., and 16 days. She was buried on the 11th at Grabill's Meeting-house, where a large concourse of relatives and friends had assembled. Funeral discourses were delivered by Henry Shenk, and John B. Landis, in the German language, and by Jacob N. Brubaker, in the English, from Ps. 31: 6. The writer visited the aged sister four days before her death. She was still able to sit up in her chair. She loved to converse about the love and mercy of God, and her Savior, and expressed her hope of being accepted of God, through Jesus. She expressed her desire to depart and be at rest. She said she had been a member of the Mennonite church, over 65 years. Her life was one of trouble and sorrow; but she stood firm to the end, in the service of her Master. H. B. B.
[Herald of Truth - Volume IX, Number 4 - April 1872, page 62, 63]
[Herald of Truth - Volume IX, Number 4 - April 1872, page 62, 63]
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