William Wallace Sheffield (1851-1905)

SHEFFIELD-—William Wallace Sheffield died at his home near Earl, Nebr., after a very short illness of and advanced stage of heart disease. The deceased was born near Madison, Wisconsin, Dec. 15, 1951. Age 53 years 1 month and 2 days. He married Louie Robinson June 21 1882. To this union were born five boys. He leaves a faithful wife, a father (E. S. Sheffield), five sons, two brothers and two sisters to mourn his death. For many years Brother Sheffield lived near Woodward, Iowa. From this place he with his family moved to Oklahoma where they lived six months and then moved to Rawlins county, Kansas, where he lived about eighteen months. Desiring to secure church and Sabbath school privileges he moved to his new home near Earl, Frontier Co., Nebr. His place is greatly missed in his home, in the church and Sabbath school and in the community, for he was a kind loving husband and father and a devoted Christian, having for many years been a firm believer in the doctrines of the Bible as held by the Church of God, of which he was a faithful member. He was spoken of by all his neighbors as a good, honest and conscientious man. He died as he lived-—in the hope of the soon coming of the Life giver to banish sickness, and sorrow and death and to give eternal life to all the faithful, and set up His everlasting kingdom. We sorrow not as having no hope, for we believe our brother will come forth when the Master calls in the morning of the resurrection. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer to the sorrowing family. His oldest son, Elmer Sheffield and wife, of Woodward, Iowa, were present. We laid him away in the silent tomb, sweetly sleeping in Jesus till that voice which shall wake the dead, shall say, come forth. L. L. PRESLER. Death of W. W. Sheffield. W. W. Sheffield died at his home near Farnam, Neb., January 17, 1905, of heart failure, aged 53 years 1 month and 2 days. Mr. Sheffield was born in Wisconsin, December 15 1851, the second son of E. S. and Ann Sheffield. When about fourteen years of age his parents moved to Appanoose county, Iowa, and from there to Boone county about five years later,'settling near Woodward, where he remained until the spring of 1901, when he moved to Oklahoma, afterwards going to Rawlins county, Kansas, then to Frontier county Nebraska, where he lived at the time of hiS death. He united with the Church of God and remained a faithful member all his life. He was married June 21, 1881, to Lovina Robinson, of Mortonville, Kans., to whom were born five sons, Elmer W. of Scranton, Oliver A., William A., Jesse A., and Robert E., who with their mother remain to mourn him. He leaves besides his family an aged father and step-mother, two sisters, two brothers and numerous other friends. One sister Mrs. Olive Darner died nearly eight years ago. From Brother E. S. Sheffield. Dear Brethren and Sisters: -I want to say a few words to every one I can that is hoping with me for a more enduring life free from grief, in the kingdom of God when it comes. To all such the promise of Jesus to raise up all his followers at the last day, and he informs us it is his Father's will that he shall do this, and he has assured us it is his delight to comply with that will, hence the promise that he will comply with that will without anyone given him being lost. Oh, how precious that promise! And how that preciousness is intensified by the reception of such news as was imparted by the following dispatch none realizes but those who have been robbed of loved ones by the cruel enemy death! "Farnam, Neb., Jan. 17, 1905. Mrs. E. S. Sheffield, Vinton, Iowa. Wallace is dead! If father comes, answer. Louise Sheffield. 4:35 p.m. The foregoing dispatch was received at 5 p.m. The next morning I picked up a little unopened paper and read: DEATH OF A GODLY MAN. "His work is done, his warfare ended. His earthly trials all are over. His place shall know him here no more, Behold how calm in earth he slumbers, Each wrinkling trouble wiped away, Earth's load no more his soul encumbers. Tread with soft step and forehead lowly, As ye draw near his saintly bed, Though naught can break the rest so holy, That reigns around the pillowed head, Till the last trumpet's solemn warning, Re-echoes through the boundless skies, Shall usher in the eternal morning, And bid the slumbering dead arise. He slumbers well, God's angels guard him, Who giveth his beloved sleep. Waiting and watching death hath found him. Oh, not for him, ye mourners. weep. Oh, not for him, shed tears of sorrow, Around whose brow with dawning rays, The light of that eternal morrow, In pure and placid sweetness plays, His work is done, his warfare ended, That work was hard, that warfare sore, Yet God be thanked he soon shalt rise, To be with Christ forevermore. After reading the foregoing beautiful lines of calm resignation, hope and faith I was gratified to learn they came by the pen of our beloved brother, Eugene Willard who like myself is watching the signs that are passing because we cannot know by time reckoning, therefore we must heed the admonition of Jesus given to all who are waiting for the kingdom of God, and if we are now in the time of the end and the sounding of the seventh trumpet under which John heard great voices in heaven declaring the kingdom of this world are transformed into the kingdom of Christ, it is important to compare passing events with the predictions as the events of the trumpet, and time of the end are foretold but the length of time is not, we can with earnestness watch and wait hoping we may be found ready to meet our loved ones when they are brought to life again to die no more. Vinton, Ia.