Mary T. KELLOG
Age: 19
Date of Decease: 10mo. 12 1862
Skaneateles, N.Y.
Daughter of Walter and Sarah SHOTWELL.



Thomas KENDALL
Age: 77
Date of Decease: 8mo. 4 1862
Duck Creek, Ind.



Ann KENWORTHY
Age: 55
Date of Decease: 10mo. 20 1862
Richmond, Ind.
A minister.
Wife of William KENWORTHY.
She was the daughter of James and Mary French, and was born in Burlington county, New Jersey, with whom she removed to Columbiana county, Ohio, in the spring of 1820. Her temperament was lively and cheerful, fond of reading and of company.
Through mercy she was early led to love her bible, and delighted to read the lives and writings of good men, which were doubtless blessed to her.

She had united in marriage with Francis J. TOWNSEND in 1827, and in 1835 they settled in Cincinnati. In 1836 she first appeared as a minister. Of her deep exercises in relation to this call of her Heavenly Father, she has left behind her an interesting account in her private memoranda, from which we extract as follows:-

"Having partaken largely of the loving kindness and mercy of the Lord, I have for a long time felt that it would be right for me in great humility to acknowledge that I have not in any degree merited these His tender mercies by any works of righteousness that I have done, that unto me belongs only blushing and confusion of face, but unto Thee Oh! Lord, and to Thy dear Son belongeth all praise. Grant me ability, Holy Father, to ascribe it unto Thee and to the Lamb, for truly Thou hast very marvellously wrought many deliverances for Thy very unworthy creature, and in a most compassionate manner followed me from my infancy to the present time. Oh that I could availingly say unto the children of men, 'Come, taste and see for yourselves that the Lord is good. He waiteth long to be gracious unto you, even to receive you unto Himself and grant you an inheritance amongst all those who are sanctifies.' Being in my early years deprived by mental affliction of a tender mother's care, I was left very much to my own inclinations, my dear father being frequently from home, so that I was left without much restraint; this suited my light volatile disposition and I often took liberties which were not proper, and that were very hurtful to me; but at a very early age, even before I knew what it was, the swift witness for truth reproved me for doing wrong, so that I often felt very unhappy. On one occasion, which has ever remained impressed on my memory, was this reproval so powerfully felt by me, that being tempted to commit a fault, I shrank from it with a feeling of fear and dread; a fear to do the act, and a dread of the consequence if I did it; and although I did not fully understand the nature of the restraint at that time, yet it was sufficient to check me from doing the wrong.

"As early as I can recollect anything, the existence of a God who created all things by His almighty power, seems to have had a place in my mind; and that He made man a happy being, but that he disobeyed the command of the Lord, and lost his happy condition by his disobedience; that God then promised a Saviour, through whom man might become reconciled to Him again, and that Jesus Christ was this Saviour. These impressions were made on my mind, I believe, by hearing the Scriptures read, and having access to them as soon as I could read them for myself. Here it may not be improper to mention a dream which I had, perhaps in my seventh year, in which I was shown my sinful condition, and the necessity of praying to the Lord myself for forgiveness, and that the prayers of others would not save my soul from the just punishment pronounced upon the wicked and rebellious ones. In this dream I have ever had to feel that the Lord manifested His tender mercy unto me; for having, in His wisdom, no doubt, cut off those tender instructions, which so many dear children are blest with who have a watchful mother's care over them, He mercifully condescended to open in this manner to my childish understanding the necessity there was for me to ask in prayer of Him for the remission of my sins, and for an assurance of His divine favor. I dreamed of seeing the outward elements all in commotion, that the end of the world was come, and that the righteous were to be gathered into the heavenly rest, but the wicked should be punished with unutterable misery and woe. In this view my own helpless, lost condition rushed upon me, and I called aloud upon my father to pray both for himself and for me, but I thought he heard not my cry, and was indifferent both to his own condition and mine. My grief and fear was great. I turned to my oldest brother, and entreated him in the same manner, but found, to my inexpressible distress, that he too was entirely regardless of my sorrow. Then I turned from them, and kneeling, prayed for myself. When I awaked, and felt that no one could do the work of repentance and prayer for me, a deep sense of the necessity of it rested on my spirit for days and nights, with what I believe I may say was my first sincere sorrow for sin; and even no as I record this, after a lapse of more than thirty years, I can remember the terror I felt in this dream for sin, and the fear of being cut off unprepared; and while some may be disposed to smile at its littleness, I bless the Lord Most High for His mercy thus extended to me. Well would it have been for me if I had cherished this visitation, and not passed from under it; but such was not my happy abiding course.

"I had a strong desire to gratify my sinful propensities, and often turned aside from what I felt in the secret of my heart to be the right way. Thus I went on, often feeling a degree of remorse and sorrow for my many inconsistencies and wrong doings, until, about my fifteenth year, renewed desires were raised in my heart by the Lord of Life and Peace to walk more in accordance with His blessed will.

"Being naturally cheerful and much addicted to mirth and lightness, I often laughed and jested away the tenderness I felt when alone, not caring for my associates to know how it was with me.

"Oh! that none may do as I have done in this respect, for it makes hard work for the poor unstable soul, and offends a tender and merciful Lord. I am ready now to wonder that He did not leave me to myself to grope my way in the dark; but, blessed be His name, He called me out of this wilderness state, and showed me that I was not to deny Him, but own Him before men, and if I was obedient unto His heavenly call, that He would be with me, and go before me in the way in which He would lead me. Ah! I believe, while memory holds her place in my mind, I shall never forget now gently He led me in those days, a lone child with none to commune with on the way of true holiness. I was often sad at heart, with fears without and besetments from the enemy of all good within, yet my merciful Heavenly Father looked lovingly on me, and at times gave me the consoling evidence that my sighs were numbered and my tears observed by Him whose ear is ever ready to hear the cries of the simple confiding ones.

"I spent much of my leisure in reading the Scriptures, which I think I can truthfully say I have ever loved. These lay in my room, and I often read them on retiring to rest for the night, and was at times much tendered and comforted. The religious exercises and travels of good men I read with all eagerness, and was often much broken in spirit as I perused such works."

"The history of the rise, progress, and sufferings of the Society of Friends, of which I was a member, came in my way about this time, and the reading of it did much towards strengthening my love for the truth and my attachment to Friends; and I often longed to be of the number of those who truly loved and served the Lord Jesus. But alas! there was much in me to be consumed of the corruption and deceitfulness of my own heart. I had not had a full view, nor in truth did I continuously desire to see my proneness to go astray from the narrow way, but I would gladly have passed on in another, not having to endure the laying of the axe to the root of the corrupt tree; therefore there was not that progress made in the Zionward journey that there might have been, had I willingly surrendered up all unto Him who knows how to separate the precious from the vile, and who will make every branch beareth fruit to undergo the necessary pruning and purging, in order that it may bring forth more fruit, carefully cutting off that which is of the wild nature. About this time I felt my mind impressed with the belief that if I was obedient unto the teachings of the Lord's Spirit in my heart, He would call and qualify me to declare openly unto the children of men the glad tidings of the gospel of peace and salvation: and I was led to cry unto Him for help to bow unto His requirings, and to be preserved from running without a clear manifestation of its being His call."
"I felt it was a very serious thing to appear before the congregation as His messenger to declare His words unto them, and my soul was often bowed under a deep concern to be made fit for this great work. But there were seasons in which I was not so thoughtful and watchful as I should have been, and then the enemy of all good would rush upon and overtake me, and alas! unhappily draw me into his snare, and thereby bring me into bondage again, from which I had no power to retrieve myself; but condemnation and sorrow was my portion, until in mercy access was granted me to approach His footstool, and beg acceptably for forgiveness and remission of my sins through the atoning blood of my dear Redeemer."

"Thus I passed on until I entered my seventeenth year, when, as I apprehended, I felt the call renewed, that I must openly declare Christ crucified the all-atoning sacrifice for sin, and direct the attention of my fellow-beings unto Him as out Great High Priest, who though He offered Himself a sacrifice for us upon the cross, with the weight of the sins of all mankind upon Him, yet being the Son of the Eternal God who had committed all power unto Him, He could not be holden by death, but burst its bonds, and triumphed over death, hell, and the grave, was received up into heaven, and is set down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, where He ever liveth to make intercession for poor guilty fallen man. These apprehensions rested upon my spirit by day and by night, and often, when no human eye saw me nor ear heard me, was my heart turned unto my Father in heaven, that He would go before me and open the way. I felt it right to be diligent in attending meetings, also the necessity of an humble waiting frame of mind being sought after and abode in, which could not be attained without divine aid. I felt an increasing interest in meetings for discipline, and at times a fervent desire was raised in my heart that all things in the church might be done in decency and order as becomes the followers of Christ, so that the Lord might be honored therein. I was young, and the mortification of the cross was great, yet there was something alive in me that struggled after a willingness to be enabled to yield to this duty when the right time should arrive; but such was my timidity and fear of my companions, lest I should fail in making an attempt by standing up before them in public testimony, that I begged of the Lord that if He required such work of me, to be pleased to let my first appearance be in supplication, for I felt in this way I would be screened from public gaze. Ah! poor, weak creature, while I can truly say that I felt longing desires to be obedient, yet my own natural will would have something to do in the way and manner of it, or rather in choosing the offering; but even here I have to remember the compassion of my dear Lord, who I believe, looked at the sincerity of my desire to love and obey Him, for He was pleased, in our Quarterly Meeting for business in the 5th mo., 1826, to draw me under a deep exercise of mind, and therein I was made willing to bow and vocally supplicate unto Him who is a God hearing prayer. For this little act of dedication unto Him, I felt a peaceful calm to cover my spirit; and towards my associates and companions, of whom I had felt such a fear, as though I could not meet them, when the meeting closed, as a number of them approached to take me by the hand, all fear was removed, and I felt, if it had been possible, that I could have taken them all in my arms and embraced them in tender affection; such was the love and good will towards them that filled my heart. Truly I shall never forget this first dedication in the work of the ministry which I felt the Lord required of me, nor His all-sustaining help which He mercifully afforded me, a feeble one. I here record it, with thankfulness unto Him to whom all the praise is ever due."

After the above her surviving friends find only occasional notes; these show her earnest desire for purity of heart and entire dedication. Some of them are as follows:

"Be pleased , Oh Lord! to give me an humble heart and a willing mind, and, if consistent with Thy good pleasure, make me to understand Thy will, and strengthen me to do it."

"Holy Father, please to enable me to say in all things Thy will, and not mine, be done. When shall I be wholly redeemed from my besetting sin? Oh! for a light to see myself as I really am. When shall I love and serve Thee as I really ought? Be pleased, Oh Lord, to forgive all my shortcomings. Hide not Thy face from me, for my joy is in the light of Thy countenance."

"Be pleased, dear Redeemer, to make me a clean vessel. When I shall I learn wholly to resign my own will, and be willing to be just what Thou would have me to be? Spare not, Oh Lord, until all within me is in subjection to Thy divine will."

"Preserve me, Oh Lord, from bringing reproach upon Thy cause; may it be more and more precious in my sight, so that I may become willing to give up all for Thy sake."

"Remember me, Oh Lord, for good, also all those who cry unto Thee."

"Preserve me, Oh Lord, from sin in thought, word, or action. Oh that my thoughts may be right in Thy sight. Deliver me from every evil thing, that my soul may be pure in Thy holy sight."

"Redeem me, Oh Lord, from all iniquity. Remove sin from me, that through Thy unmerited mercy my soul may live. My hope, my confidence, is only in Thee; strengthen me by the might of Thy power to be more faithful. To Thee, Oh Lord, belongeth all praise, yea, all."

"Show me, Oh Lord, my proneness to do evil; make me deeply sensible of my unworthiness."

"Watch unto prayer. Oh my soul, that I may be in readiness to meet the Lord at His coming, having through unmerited mercy been permitted to feel sensible of the loving kindness of the Most High to me-ward. May it be my earnest desire to be found more faithfully dedicated to His holy will.

"Many are the blessings bestowed upon me; Oh that I may seek to be more truly thankful."

"A few moments spent in silent supplication to the God of all our sure mercies affords more solid comfort to us, when we look over the past, than all those sacrificed to worldly pleasures."

"He who loveth God sincerely, with the whole heart, will not fail to show it openly before men by a consistency in his daily walk and conversation."

"11mo. 25th, 1844.- This had been a day of sweet favor, through the unmerited mercies of the Almighty One. My heart has been broken and contrited in the consideration of my utter inability to do any good work, and my great proneness to do evil; but through divine love the spirit of supplication flowed through my soul, so that, with many tears, I have craved strength of the Lord to journey onward in the way He may be pleased for me to walk. May reverential fear, love, and a ready obedience to Thy divine will, be the humble return of my heart for these seasons of heavenly consolation."

"12mo. 1st.- 'Bless the Lord, Oh my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name!' for this day has been a season of divine favor."

"12mo. 6th.- The Lord heareth the prayers of the poor from his habitation. Lord, I am poor and needy; bring me, if it be Thy will, unto the 'place where prayer is wont to be made;' and grant that one so unworthy may be permitted to gather up the crumbs that fall from Thy table, yea, the precious crumbs of soul-sustaining bread which are only to be found in Thee, Thou art the sure source of all good."

"Evening.- I have this day been feasting of Thy bounty; may my soul bow low."

"9mo. 1845.- Having passed through some close exercises, and at times enabled, in some measure, to feel that of myself I can do nothing that will be acceptable to Him with whom we have to do, my desires have been, through divine mercy, raised to Israel’s Shepherd for help, and may I with humble thankfulness acknowledge that He, in the condescending of His love and mercy, has been pleased to grant it both immediately and instrumentally. Oh! that more entire devotedness to His divine will may be the return of my heart for the unmerited favors of the Lord."

"10mo. 1845.- Through the unmerited mercy and goodness of the Lord, I have been again permitted to attend the Yearly Meeting, which, praised be His ever glorious name, He was pleased sweetly to own by the overshadowing wing of His love. Surely many of us can with bowedness of soul acknowledge that the Lord hath indeed been mindful of us, yea, that we have been, through the extending of His mercy, watered and refreshed by His life-giving presence. It has been a season of great favor; may my soul bow under a sense of my great unworthiness, and may faithful obedience to His will be the return of my heart."

"10mo.- Favored with the company of several dear friends, whose sweet spirits have much of the savor of Life -how precious is the company of such -how sweet is the union of hearts that feel that we can all partake of the same spiritual food, and all drink at the same divine fountain, even Jesus Christ, in whom is the well-spring of immortal life. Oh Lord, enable me, I beseech Thee, more abidingly to lay at the feet of Jesus, that I may be found in the way of Thy requirings."

She was approved as a Minister in the year 1843 by Cincinnati Monthly Meeting, subsequent to which she travelled considerably in the service of her Lord. Possessing a lively, earnest faith, her mission was especially to preach Christ, and Him crucified, which she was often enabled to do in the demonstration of the spirit and of power, to the comfort and edification of many who heard her, and to the gathering of wanderers to the fold of rest.

Of strong natural abilities and an active mind, which were submitted to the purifying operations of divine grace, she was efficient and useful in meetings for discipline. Having been a widow for some years, she was married in 1852 to William KENWORTHY, of Richmond, Indiana, from which time that city became her home, and the meeting and families there became the scene of many earnest exhortations to come to the Saviour. In 1855, accompanied by her husband, she attended Ohio Yearly Meeting, and in the following year she attended New England Yearly Meeting, and the meetings constituting it, and some of those of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Besides other engagements from home in 1858, she was called to religious service among the colored population in Whitewater and New Garden Quarterly Meetings, also with the inmates of the Asylum for the poor in Wayne county, Indiana, and the House of Refuge in Cincinnati; all these services were with the approval of her friends, and were to their comfort and edification as well as to own peace.

She took much interest in the colored population of her own city; assisting them in their schools, and, visiting them in their families, she would enter into a consideration of their cares and trials with much sympathy, and her advice and counsel was very helpful to them.

She was deeply interested in the First-day school for scriptural instructions, held at the Meeting House in Richmond, and also in the evening classes in Friends' families for the searching of the Scriptures, in which her voice was at times heard pleading with our Father in heaven for a divine blessing to rest upon their efforts. For some months before the close of her useful life her health began to fail, and she was able to attend only a part of one session of the Yearly Meeting, after which she was wholly confined to the house. Her illness was of a character that affected her head greatly; but her blessed Saviour was very near to support and comfort her, yea, "He made all her bed in her sickness." On one occasion she said to a friend, "I have been given to feel the goodness, mercy, and protecting care of my Heavenly Father during the past few weeks more than during any previous period in my life, and I feel assured that none of those who put their trust in Him will be confounded."

At another time she said, "I cannot see the issue of my present illness, but I have no anxiety as to the result."

To a friend, a few days before her close, she said, "I have in great mercy been favored to realize on this bed of languishing, that the Lord liveth, and because He liveth, I live also," -twice repeating the last expression.

Thus sweetly was her mind stayed on the Lord, trusting in Him, until consciousness ceased, and she entered into her rest.

"Completed is her chosen work! thus early hath she trod
The path of Gospel ministry assigned her by her God;
And now, through the grace and conquering faith, the crown of endless life.
Worn on the hills of peace, after from earthly toil and strife!

I see her now, in Memory's glass, that calm, bright, happy look,
Worn only by the lovers of one sweet and blessed Book;
I hear again, with Memory's ear, the music of her song,
Whose tones, I can but fancy, to angelic strains belong.

She sits upon the sofa in my little parlor now,
And the peace of heaven seems to rest upon her placid brow;
The solemn silence then she breaks with messages divine,
And through her eyes the holy light of heaven seems to shine.

It was a solemn season -oh! it was a favored hour,
And every spirit present must have felt the Spirit's power;
The Master condescended through His handmaid there to tell
How thirsty souls might water draw from out Salvation’s well.

All scattered now the little group that listened to her there,
Far from that pleasant island home, that native land so dear;
And two have launched upon the sea that skirts her heavenly shore,
And, like that Gospel minister, they speak on earth no more.

Blest be thy memory, sainted one! thou favored of the Lord,
To bear to many a fainting soul the precious, living Word;
And may thy Gospel mantle fall on some sweet trusting heart,
Who in thy steps may gently tread, rich blessings to impart!

I hope to meet thee, crowned one! upon the heavenly height,
And clasp thy hand, amid the saved, with new and rare delight,
And thank thee once again for that sweet ministry of love
Thou gavest me and mine, one morn, ere thou wast called above."



Miriam KENWORTHY
Age: 76
Date of Decease: 1862
Clinton Co., Ohio.



James Asahel KERSEY
Age: 1
Date of Decease: 10mo. 25 1862
Springtown, Ind.
Son of James and Elmina KERSEY.



Rosamond KESTER
Age: 45
Date of Decease: 5mo. 21 1852
Greenwood, Pa.
Wife of George KESTER.



Oliver M. KILLE
Age:
Date of Decease: 8mo. 18 1862
Stark Co., O.
Infant son of John and Mary KILLE.



John A. KILLERMAN
Age: 74
Date of Decease: 10mo. 1 1862
Driftwood, Ind.
He was a native of the State of New Jersey, emigrated into Ohio in the year 1818. He joined the Society of Friends, through convincement, in 1842, and was deeply impressed with the Gospel principles as by it; and very desirous that they should be carried out in their primitive purity. He was a sympathizing friend to the orphan and afflicted, visiting them at their homes and ministering to their need.

His afflictions were borne with Christian fortitude, looking to Him who is a present help to those who trust in Him.



Elizabeth KING
Age: 69
Date of Decease: 8mo. 25 1862
Howard Co., Ind.
She was enabled to impart much good advice to her children and grand-children, encouraging them to conduct themselves through life so that they might be prepared to meet her in heaven.

She was often engaged in visiting the sick and afflicted, the aged, and infirm, to whom she imparted comfort and spiritual refreshment.

During her illness she frequently expressed entire resignation to the Divine Will, and a full assurance that her peace was made with her Redeemer.

Levinus KING
Age: 22
Date of Decease: 10mo. 29 1862
Helena, Ark.



Ann KINSEY
Age: 71
Date of Decease: 7mo. 23 1862
Short Creek, Ohio.
Widow of James KINSEY.
Although prevented by the nature of her disease, from conversing much during her protracted illness, she ever evinced patient, calm, and peaceful state of mind. She frequently acknowledged the mercy that had exempted her from severe suffering; and at one time remarked, "The Lord has most mercifully dealt with me."



Emma J. KIRBY
Age: 16mos.
Date of Decease: 9mo. 17 1862
Iowa.
Daughter of B. and Mary KIRBY.
"Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade,
Death came with friendly care;
The opening bud to Heaven conveyed,
And bade it blossom there."



Susan KIRK
Age: 44
Date of Decease: 5mo. 6 1862
Smithfield, O.
While in health she was attached to the things of this world, but during a short and painful illness she was brought to lament her past indifference towards her heavenly Father. She said to a friend who conversed with her on the necessity of being prepared for the final change, "I am glad that thou hast come to talk to and sympathize with me; I do not want to hear any vain and foolish talk now. If I had my life to live over, how different I would live. Oh, that I had given up to love and serve my blessed Saviour in the morning of my days. If I had glorified and praised His blessed name all the days of my life; I might have been happy in this world. Oh, that I hope for redemption; but I must wait the Lord's time. If seemed very hard at first for me to leave these dear children (referring to a sister's children under her care), but the Lord will provide: His will be done."



Ann W. KIRKBRIDE
Age: 48
Date of Decease: 9mo. 19 1862
Philadelphia.
Wife of Dr. Thomas S. KIRKBRIDE.



Esther KNOWLES
Age: 80
Date of Decease: 4mo. 1 1862
Smyrna, N.Y.




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