DIED

CARSON - In Boscobel, Wis. Jan. 19th, 1876, of consumption, Olonzo Carson; aged 53 years 1 month and 13 days.
       Mr. Carson has resided many years in Richland county, and had succeeded by industry and economy in gaining enough of this world's goods to leave his family in comfortable circumstances. He came to this place about three years ago to educate his children. Nearly two years ago that fearful disease, consumption, began to prey upon him. Every effort was made for his recovery within the reach of medical skill. Last fall he went South, hoping that a change of climate might, with medical skill, restore his health, but all was in vain. A few weeks ago he came home to die. He was a great sufferer for a long time, and yet he endured it with great patience. When he became convinced that death was near he made his will; afterward, he felt he had something else to do before he was fully prepared to go; he called upon the name of the Lord to help, his faith was directed to the only Saviour of dying man, and soon he realized the fulfillment of that precious promise, "Call upon me on the day of trouble and I will answer." He prayed very earnestly and faithfully for his wife and children, commending them to the "Father of the fatherless and the widow's God," bidding them an affectionate good-bye, and entreating them to meet him in Heaven. He leaves a wife and seven children and many friends to mourn his loss but with hope for a meeting in that Land where sickness never wastes and death never devours. May the Lord help us all to take the counsel of our dying friend.
Z. S. HURD.