OBIT: Caroline (JONES) HOLLNBECK, 1837, Providence, Luzerne County, PA

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  Died, of consumption, in Providence, Luzerne county, Pa., April 17, 1837, 
Mrs. Caroline Hollenbeck, wife of Casper Hollenbeck, and daughter of Salmon 
and Sarah Jones.  Sister H. experienced religion at the age of 14, at a 
prayer meeting on Bethany circuit, at which place she united with the 
Methodist Episcopal church.  About two years before her death, her 
enjoyments were rather low, but last fall she began earnestly to seek for a 
more thorough work of grace in the soul.  Her husband not being a professor, 
she felt it to be her duty to attend family prayers, which she continued as 
long as her health would admit.  On Thursday before she died, she called her 
mother to her bed and said, "Mother, don't you hear that beautiful music?  I 
think if you listen you can hear it."  At this time she received such a 
manifestation of the love of God as took away the fear of death, through 
which she had suffered much, and caused her to say, "I did not think I could 
die so happy."  About three minutes before she expired, she said, "In three 
or four minutes I shall be shouting glory."  Thus she died and left her 
husband to mourn his loss.  "Thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory 
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
                        WILLIAM REDDY.
  Painsville, May 10.

Western Christian Advocate (Methodist Episcopal newspaper), July 14, 1837, 
page 48