"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 37, No 52, p 5, Dec. 29, 1881. Near North Loup, Neb., Nov. 29, 1881, George Thorngate, Sen., in the 84th year of his age. Brother Thorngate was born in Wiltshire, Eng., and came to Canada in the British army in 1812. Soon after he left the army and settled in Jefferson county, N. Y., where he married Matilda Blanchard, by whom he had six children. A few years later, he removed to Persia, Cattaraugus county, where he was converted and became a member of the Seventh-day Baptist Church. In 1853, his first wife died, and, in 1856, he married Betsey Langworthy, who lived only three years, and in 1861, he married Lucretia Dickinson, who survives him. The life of Bro. Thorngate has been one of steady, faithful, Christian service, and he met death with the expectation that through Christ he should be the victor and enter into his rest. The funeral sermon was preached by his pastor, from the following words, which he selected years ago for the purpose, "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints." Psa. 116, 15. G. J. C. "The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 46, No 38, p 608, Sep. 18, 1890. At North Loup, Neb., Aug. 27, 1890, Mrs. Lucretia Thorngate, aged 91 years, 5 months and 14 days. The deceased was the widow of George Thorngate, Sen. father of Henry and George Thorngate, and Mrs. Marianne Rood, of this place, and Miss [Mrs.] Hannah Stillman, of Farina, Ill. Since the death of Mr. Thorngate, in 1881, she has lived with her step-daughter, Mrs. Marianne Rood, of this place. In many respects her life has been a favored one. She had always been remarkably healthy, and in her ripe old age she was almost totally free from those painful infirmities that so often mark the closing years of a long, wearisome life. She moved about with the ease and grace of a much younger person to within a few days of her death, and her mind preserved its clearness and vigor to the last. "She had prayed that it might be so," she said. "and her prayer was answered." She was the only surviving member of a family of nine children. By a former marriage with Mr. John Hoyt she had seven children, and of them all, only Mrs. Catharine Sweet, of Bright, South Dakota, survived to be with her in the hour of death. She was an intelligent Christian, and having served her Lord for seventy years she had no fear in death, but passed away cheerfully, believing in all the promised joys of the heavenly rest. B. They Came to Milton http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jonsaunders