Source: The Pontiac Gazette Feb 11, 1867

Holden, Levi - 1867

In Pontiac, January 25, at the residence of E. D. Comstock, Esq., Levi Holden, aged 86 years. Fully ripe for the hereafter death, was this good man, and he was added to the number of those gathered in during the past year, whom white looks and furrowed brows, told the years of toil, sacrifice and duties well discharged, His death was pleasant, he closed his eyes upon the world, his friends and children, and like one sinking into sweet sleep, his soul parted from the body forever. Is it right to weep for those, whose years of active usefulness is gone. Ought we to murmur that God calls his aged servants upward from sorrow, sin and death. Surely it is a relief to the soul to escape from the burdens of humanity and be at rest forevermore. Happy may we be, if when our bodies grow feeble beneath the weight of years, the Good Father shall call us to himself by as loving tones us he called this aged pilgrim.



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