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Eaton County Michigan EATON COUNTY
MEMORIAL REPORT
I trust, will be renewed
soon in a brighter and better world.
Brother Covert held several honored offices
of trust in the prime of life, before he came
to reside among us; and since he has been
with us, for ten or twelve years, he has been
one of the superintendents of the poor, and
when in that office he looked not only after
the temporal, but often after the spiritual
welfare of those poor unfortunates dependent
upon charity.
Mr. Covert for several years has felt
increasing infirmities of age and the inroads
of the disease which has taken him away. He
often spoke of the nearness of death, and
knew from the disease which was preying upon
him that he was liable to be called without a
moment's warning. I believe his house was in
order, and that he was watching and waiting
for the coming of his Lord; and though his
death was sudden, and perhaps unexpected by
his family and friends, yet not to him. He
had thought of it so much and spoken of it so
often that death and he were old
acquaintances. On Saturday morning, after a
few moments of suffering, he said to his
beloved wife and attending physician, who
were doing all that could be done to
alleviate his sufferings, "Let me go—let me
go home!" He saw the messenger had come, and
he was summoned to "Immanuel's Land"—to his
home above—• and he wanted to go; and when he
had thus spoken, he fell asleep. We mourn his
departure. His memory is fragrant. He needs
no eulogy from me or any other friend. In
God's book all his members are written.
Michigan 1883
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