"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 42, No 40, p 5, Oct. 7, 1886. In New Bremen, N. Y., Sept. 25, 1886, very suddenly, of heart disease, Lodowick S. Peckham, only son of Stillman M. Peckham, of Watson, aged 30 years, 5 months, and 14 days. The deceased, on the day of his death, had been to visit his father, about eight miles away, with two of his children, a boy five years old and a girl three years old. He enjoyed the visit, and seemed to be in the best of spirits. About 4 o'clock he started for home with the children, his father going a little ways with him. After parting with his father, he had not gone more than a mile before he dropped the reins, without saying a word, and the brave little boy picked them up and drove home. Arriving at home, a neighbor took him from the carriage, and carried him into the house; but life was extinct. He had died on the road, probably where he dropped the reins. Bro. Peckham was a member of the Seventh-day Baptist Church of Watson, noted for his industry, honesty and candor, and a kind and affectionate husband and father. He leaves a wife and three children, a father, and many friends to mourn. His funeral was largely attended, the pastor preaching from the text, Matt. 25: 44, "Therefore be ye also ready: for as such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh." T. R. R. http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jonsaunders