Asahel Bill, Death Notice 1847

This death notice appeared in the Baptist newsletter Christian Messenger, from Nova Scotia, Canada on 30 July1847, page 243.  It is for my 2nd great grand uncle, Asahel Bill, who died young at the age of 21.

CHRISTIAN MESSENGER.

We have just received the following notice from our

esteemed friend, W. H. Troop, Esq. dated

                                                     Nictaux, July 22nd 1847

"Died, at Nictaux, on Tuesday, the 20th instant, after a pro-

tracted illness, which he bore with pious resignation to his

Heavenly Father's will, Asahel Bill, eldest son of the Rev.

Ingram E. Bill. Truly it may be said of him, he was lovely and

pleasant in his life and happy in his death"

                                                     Yours faithfully.

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We deeply regret the melancholy duty of recording the

decease of this promising young man, whose completion

of his course of studies as a graduate of Acadia College

we announced about a year since.  It is one of those

events directed by inscrutable wisdom which our weak

and limited minds are wholly unable to scan.  We had an

opportunity of a brief but pleasing interview with the

deceased on our return from the Association - his health

was then rapidly declining.  He had made profession of

religion some time since, and appeared well prepared for

the momentous change.  His hopes were resting on the

sufficiency of the the Great Atonement, and he anticipated a

speedy and joyful release from the trials and sorrows of

earth to enter on a heavenly inheritance.  We truly

sympathise with his bereaved parents under their heavy

loss. They have, however, a consolation above all other---

they do not sorrow as those without hope.

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Asahel Bill, son of the Reverend Ingraham Ebenezer Bill (1805 - 1891) and Isabella Lyons, was born 14 May 1847 in Billtown (Nictaux), Nova Scotia and died 20 July 1848.  He was the eldest of five children, and brother to my 2nd great grandfather Caleb Rand Bill (1833 - 1902).   His death record states that he died of "lung disease", which was probably tuberculosis.  

Asahel had just graduated from Acadia College, and was studying to be a Baptist minister, like his father.  His youngest brother, Ingraham Ebenezer Bill, Jr. (1836 - 1907) went on to become a Baptist preacher.  He graduated Horton Academy and the Baptist Seminary in Fredericton, and went to England for theological training in the Baptist faith.  He served as a missionary in New Zealand, and as a minister in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Maine, Ohio, and Ontario.

Thanks to Ric Noble of the "Nova Scotia Roots" Facebook group for the copy of this death notice from the Christian Messenger newspaper from Nova Scotia. 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Asahel Bill, Death Notice 1847", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 14, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/08/asahel-bill-death-notice-1847.html: accessed [access date]).