Obituary of Mariah Davis Gossage
Mrs. Mariah Gossage, daughter of John and Nancy Davis, was born in the state of Virginia, August 13th, 1808. In company with her parents she emigrated to Morgan Co., Ohio, in early life, where she grew to womanhood, and married Nicholas Gossage. In 1841 they emigrated with their family to Schuyler Co., Ill., where in the same year she united with the New Bethany Church (Regular Baptists) and was baptized by the writer. Here her almost three score years of christian conflict have passed, in fellowship with her brethren and sisters until the day of her death, which occurred Feb. 6th, 1896, caused by paralysis and other afflictions incident to old age, in full possession of a blessed hope of the life to come.The burial occurred on Feb. 8th, when she was gently committed to the earth to await the pleasure of her Lord, the place of burial being in the old stone cemetery, within a few rods of the stream in which she was buried by baptism. At the request of her surviving son and other relatives a discourse was preached by the writer in her memory on the second Sunday in July, to a large congregation of relatives and neighbors, from Romans v. 10, "For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son; much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life."
"From Pisgah's top by faith she saw
The land where milk and honey flows;
Nor can the power of hell below
Prevail to break her sweet repose."
She leaves one son, Thomas Gossage, and other relatives, together with the church, to mourn her departure, her husband and three daughters having preceded her to the promised land.
SAMUEL L. DARK. Macomb, Ill., July 20, 1896.
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