Christian Observer. Catlettsburg, Boyd Co., Kentucky Saturday, April 29, 1871. Vol. 5. No. 5. Page 2, Column 6 DEATHS [For the Observer. OBITUARY. TRICKET.--ALLEN TRICKET, the subject of this memoir, was the son of William and Sarah Tricket, and was born in Preston county, Virginia, on the 25th day of March, 1832. His parents removed to Wood (now) Wirt county, West Virginia, when Allen was six years old, and settled at Palestine, where his father died about six years afterward, leaving his mother a widow with five children--Allen the oldest. He there grew up to manhood, faithfully and industriously assisting his mother in providing for the family. When the family were in condition to get on without him, he having arrived at manhood, entered into the contest of life for himself; and by honest industry and economy, accumulated considerable property. He married Miss Mary Fought, who now mourns her loss. He leaves three children, two sons and one daughter. Mr. Tricket left Virginia a few years since and settled in Scioto county, Ohio, where his health failed, until he breathed his last, March 28th, 1871. His disease, consumption, baffled all the efforts and skill of all his physicians; for, could the skill of physicians and the prayers and sympathies of Christian friends have availed, Allen had not died. He was industrious and vigorous, driving his business before him through sunshine and storm. His whole course through life was characterized by honesty, integrity and fidelity. He had the most profound and abiding hatred toward a low, mean, dishonest deed. In his manners, he was easy and pleasant, affable to his friends, and plain and frank with all. Although he always treated Christianity and Christian people respectfully, he never made any pretensions to personal piety until a short time before his death; when he turned to God with all his heart, prayed earnestly and constantly for several days, and finally obtained an evidence, a joyful evidence, of his acceptance with God, and in his own language, "on the bank of the stream he boarded the old vessel," and was made joyful in God through the Spirit, and retained his heavenly frame of mind until he exchanged the sufferings of earth for the bliss of heaven. In his affliction he had the advantages of the counsels and prayers of the Rev. J. C. Tinsley of the Western Virginia Conference. He died without a struggle or a groan. His mortal remains were brought by his friends, back to Palestine, and buried there April 1st, 1871, there to rest in hope with kindred dust until the clangoring trump of God shall bid him arise. After the death of his father, his mother married Mr. Elisha Baker; she is now aged and sorrow-stricken, for not only Allen, her first born, but all her sons, five in number, have preceded her to the grave. Of her first family she buried an infant daughter, and a son of some twelve years, in addition to her husband; and of her second family she had a sprightly little son drowned, in full view of her door; and last summer, "Eddie" Baker, her youngest, a youth in his teens, the hope of her declining years, with hope in his death; and requesting his friends to sing to him of heaven, passed away. Thus Edward Thornton Baker died. Oh! God! how hard the lot of Thy children sometimes seems! and hard, indeed, it would be had not Jesus died and rose again; but when we read in His blessed word--because I live ye shall live also--the gloom of the grave is gone; and while we bow beneath the rod, we submissively kiss the hand that inflicts the blow. Glory to God in the highest. Friends, meet them "up yonder." SAMUEL SHEPPARD. ZACKVILLE, W. Va., April 7th, 1871.