Troy Times

October 16, 1862

LOVE, ANNA MARY - Died at her Father's house near Troy, Ohio, September 17th, Anna Mary Love, aged 22 years, 8 months and 18 days. She was a child of the Covenant, had been dedicated to God in her infancy by Christian parents in the ordinance of Baptism, and received from them a Christian education. Those who knew her most intimately observed that from a very early period her life was marked by unusual thoughtfulness on religious subjects, and at the age of fourteen she publicly gave herself to the Savior in the Sinking Creek Church, Pa., under the Pastoral care of the Rev. Robert Hammil. Her last sickness, Scroiula, which attacked her throat, was protracted and painful, in its last stages rendering conversation with her friends very difficult, and ________ almost impossible. Yet she was patient and resigned to the will of the Master. Though in the earlier stages of her sickness she clung to life with great tenacity, in the last stages she was anxiously waiting and desirous of the coming of her Lord to give her release and rest with Him forever. Just in her dying moments she seemed to be favored with a vision of the Spirit world such as is sometimes granted to the dying Christian. She exclaimed with a gesture of surprise and pleasure, "I see Ella!" referring to a sister who had died some years before, "I see Ella, she is clothed in white robes and a star is in her forehead," then gently breathed her spirit away as an infant sinks to sleep.