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"They rest from their labors, and their works do follow them."

   Rev. Zenas B. Turman was born in Clinton county, Ill., April 23, 1819. When yet a child his parents moved to Sullivan county, Md. Here he engaged in school teaching twelve years and during a part of this time he supplied a charge under the presiding elder in the Northern Indiana Conference.

    In 1856 Brother Turman came to Nebraska and settled in Cass county, near Rock Bluffs, During his second year in Nebraska he made an extended tour beyond the frontier settlement and preached to the Indians near where Lincoln now stands. He had charge of a large circuit embracing seven counties. In 1860 he was assigned work on the north side of the Platte river with Yekama as the center of his work.

    In 1863, while stationed at Dakota City, he was very sick by an attack of smallpox from which he never recovered, and which so undermined his health as to compel him to ask for the superannuated relation and retire from the active work of the ministry. For five years he resided in Nemaha City, and was elected mayor of the same. For the last twenty-five years of his life, Father Turman resided on a farm near Table Rock, where his death occurred. In early manhood he was united in marriage to Miss Sarah B. Swingler, but in a few short months death entered his home, an Brother Turman was left alone. In 1869 he was married in Omaha to Miss Catherine A. Gustine. They became the parents of seven children, four of whom are still living, and one, the youngest, is in college, preparing for the Methodist ministry. Brother Turman was a loyal Methodist, a faithful student of the history, doctrine, and polity of the church. Many articles from his pen appeared in the church papers upon questions in which he was interested.

    He was a lover of music, and wrote a number of hymns, which breathed a deep spirit of devotion to God. The hymns that were sung at his funeral were written by himself in anticipation of a home in heaven.

    His manifest loyalty to his convictions and his striking originality assured him a welcome to all our meetings.

    His end was peace. At "eventime there was light."

   Rev. Alford Brigham, a superannuated member of the Nebraska Conference, died very suddenly at his home on Silk Street, in the village of Newark valley, Tioga county, New York, Monday, September 21, 1896. His death came instantly, and he fell without a sigh or a struggle, and was doubtless the result of apoplexy.

    Brother Brigham was born in West Brookfield, Mass,, in November, 1823. Though a poor boy he resolved to get an education, and spent three years at school in Casenovia Seminary, after which he took a theological course at Concord, New Hampshire.

    In June, 1858, he married Miss Fannie P. Tinker, of Chelsea, Vermont, and the same year became a member of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and entered upon the work of the university.

    For twenty-five years he did the work of an itinerant in Northern and Southern New York, his last charge in that region being Leanders Corners, where he was stationed in 1877.

    He came to Nebraska in 1878. In Nebraska he served the Palmyra and Humboldt charges each two years, and Filley one year. At the close of his time at Filley he retired from the active work of the ministry, and settled at Table Rock, where he had purchased a farm some years before.

    In 1892 they sold out their Nebraska interests and returned to New York.

    Before they came west two children and an adopted son of Brother and Sister Brigham died, and while they were here their only remaining child, Mattie, the wife of M. D. Cameron, of Schuyler, died. This sudden bereavement is indeed a sad blow to Sister Brigham, leaving her in old age and feeble health entirely alone in the world.

    Brother and Sister Brigham had a host of friends at Table Rock and other places where they lived in Nebraska, who are deeply touched by the great sorrow of Sister Brigham and fervently pray for God's protecting care to be given her in this her time of need.

    The Nebraska Annual Conference cherishes the memory of Brother Brigham because of his diligent, studious habits, his fidelity to the work of the Master, his spotless Christian character, his kind, fraternal spirit, and his unwavering faith in the blood of Jesus Christ to save.

   Mrs. Emma Parsons Madole was born near Albion, Erie County, Penn., April 23, 1852, and died in Spartanburg, S. C., July 16, 1897.

    In early life, under the ministry of Rev. Kummer, of the Erie Conference, Sister Madole was converted and joined the Methodist church. While teaching school at Albion she was associated with Rev. Alvin Madole, whom she afterwards married, at the home of her father, Dr. Parsons, in Springboro, Penn., April 13, 1875. They went West in 1878, and in October, 1879, Brother Madole joined the Nebraska Conference. Encouraged and sustained by his noble Christian wife, he labored faithfully as an itinerant minister in the M. E. church until 1890, when his health failed, and he had to give up active work. After seeking health and employment in several states, they decided to go south. After spending a short time at Harriman, Tenn., and Columbus, N. C., they finally settled in Spartanburg, S. C., where Sister Madole by letter united with Bethel M. E. church, South, where as a teacher in the Sunday school she rendered invaluable service. Amid the discouragements and hardships incident to an itinerant preacher's life in the Northwest,

    Sister Madole, by her unselfish Christian spirit and labor of love, did much to advance the Master's cause. She was an affectionate wife and mother, a faithful friend, and sincere Christian. In her death Bethel church and Sunday school have met with a sad loss. Brother Madole has the sympathy of the entire community.

    The funeral service was conducted by her pastor, Rev. E. B. Loyless, assisted by Bishop Duncan, Revs. A. J. Cauthen, M. L. Carlisle, and J. M. Carlisle.

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