Obit for Rebecca Jane SINCLAIR (b.1847 d.1866), Olmsted Co., MN

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Rochester Post, Rochester, MN, 3 Nov 1866, page 8

Byron, Kalmar Township, Olmsted County, MN

"Gone to be with Jesus."  Rebecca Jane Sinclair, daughter of Dudley 
and Mrs. E. Sinclair, was born May 13, 1847 in the town of Clinton, 
Kennebec County, Maine.  She emigrated with her parents to Minnesota 
in the month of August 1855, -- And died October 23, 1866.  Aged 19 
years 5 months and 10 days. She was confined to her bed seven weeks,
and for five years had been a great sufferer from Consumption.  Her 
attachments to life were strong, and it always appeared to those who 
visited her from time to time during her illness that she did not give 
up the hope of final recovery until a few weeks before she died.  Yet 
she was not afraid to die, neither did she doubt her future welfare.  
She always expressed the fullest confidence in her acceptance through 
grace and exhorted her parents and friends to meet her in heaven.  She 
possessed a rare maturity of Christian experience.  He distinative 
traits of character were benevolence and charity.  Her heart and
her hands were always opened to the needy and the suffering, and the 
words and acts of every body always received from her the most charitable
construction.  At nine years of age she was awakened by the spirit of 
God to see that she was a lost sinner and must inevitably perish unless 
washed by the blood of christ.  She then commenced to lead a life of 
prayer and remained in that condition for about three years, when she 
was enabled to trust her all to Christ as her Saviour and her Redeemer, 
and from that time forth she could sing:
     "My God is reconciled;
     His pard'ning voice I hear;
     He owns me for his child;
     I can no longer fear."
For several days before she died she expressed her desire to depart
and be with Christ and told her parents not to mourn her.  And as the 
shadow of death gathered around her, her face illuminated with the 
glories of heaven, and thus she sweetly fell asleep in Jesus.  Her 
remains were consigned to the silent tomb on Thursday the 25th inst. 
A solemn and very impressive sermen was preached on the occasion by 
Rev. D. L. King to a large concourse of people from Numbers XXIII, 
and 10 "Let me die the death of the righteous . . .".  She was a kind 
and affectionate daught, a loving sister and cheerful companion; and 
leaves a great many friends to mourn her loss, but their loss is her
 eternal gain.  Let me now ask you reader, are you like Rebecca Jane, 
prepared to enter the pearly gate of the New Jerusalem?  If not, get 
oil in your lamps at once ere it be too late, for ye know neither
the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.    
- - - - - D. W. HAMMOND. - - - -