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DEA.JARVfS CASE. 



/VIRS.LORETTA CASE. 



JARVIS P. CASE, 



son of Philetus and Lucinda Case, was born in North Canton, Hartford Co., 

 Conn., June 9, 1805. His father was a native of Simsbury, Conn. ; he was 

 the son of Amasa Case, Jr., who was the son of Amasa Case, Sr., who wa? 

 a native of Scotland. It is related that three brothers came from Scotland 

 and settled in New England. One of these was named Amasa, from where 

 Jarvis P. came. The parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents of 

 Jarvis P. lived and died in Connecticut. Philetus was a farmer by occu- 

 pation. He and his wife were members of the Episcopal Church. They 

 reared a family of nine children, of whom Jarvis P. was the eldest. He 

 was a respected citizen. Jarvis P. remained at home on his father's farm 

 until he was twenty-four years of age, when he left home and was engaged 

 for a few years as agent for the sale of clocks. In 1829 he settled in Bans- 

 ville, Livingston Co., N. Y., where he met his wife, Mrs. Alpheus Stout, 

 formerly Loretta Wyatt, June 1, 1 836. She was born April .S, 1804, in 

 Seneca Co., N. Y., and settled in Dansville in 1808 or 1809, with her parents. 

 Of this union three children were born, viz. : Lucinda C. apd Henry P., 

 died while very young ', and Henry Seymour, was born Jan. 16, 1844, and 

 died April 18, 1857, and was buried in the cemetery at Burns. 



Mr. Case was living at Dansville while engaged in the sale of clocks ; he, 

 however, sold his interest, and in 1832 or 1833 bought a farm of one hundred 

 acres, on Oak Hill, town of Dansville. He has owned some four different 

 farms within sight of where they now reside. Mr. Case has been successful 

 in his business relations, but he will be known by future generations, and re- 

 membered by his neighbors, not by the number of acres he has owned, but 

 by the influence of an upright Christian life. He became a worthy member 

 of the Presbyterian Church in 1840. He has been one of the most promi- 

 nent and useful men in the town. For more than twenty-five years he 

 has been deacon of the church, and clerk and trustee for a great many 

 years. 



For the past few years he and his wife have been members of the Pres- 

 byterian Church at Arkport. Deacon Case has been very liberal in sup- 

 porting the church. Among many other things he gave a bell to the 

 church at Arkport, which will continue to call the people together for wor- 

 ship long after he is gone. 



Deacon Case settled on his present place about 1867 or 1868, where he 

 continues to reside. In politics he was formerly a Jackson Democrat, but 



of late years he has not taken an active part in politics. He has been an 

 assessor of the town for some ten years. 



Mrs. Case joined the church at the same time as Mr. Case. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Case are staunch temperance people. He has never used any ardent spirits 

 of any kind, neither has he used tobacco in any form. The history of 

 Deacon Case is one that might well inspire one to holy living. He is 

 now very infirm, and ere this brief sketch shall be read in the history of 

 the county, he will probably have passed away. 



We append the following as his last written testimony for the cause of 

 Christ : 



'' After an experience of the religion of Jesus Christ for almost forty 

 years, I find that its excellency, beauty, and power are not in the least 

 diminished j I find, to the joy and delight of my inmost soul, that every- 

 thing that I have said or done for our dear Eedeemer or his cause, although 

 said or done in weakness (great weakness), now comes back to me in an 

 hundredfold, not in dollars and cents, but in his infinite fullness, as Christ 

 promised his disciples in Matthew xix. 29. 



'" In a life devoted to Christ and his glorious cause there is nothing good 

 that can be really lost> but everything that is really good is saved. 



" The nearer I approach the Sun of Righteousness the clearer are my 

 religious views, the brighter is my path, the more lively my hope, the more 

 animating my prospect, the stronger my faith, and my peace is broad and 

 deep as the river with overflowing banks. God be praised forever for 

 bringing me down to my present low physical estate of body so gently and 

 gradually. He having given me the full and uninterrupted use and exer- 

 cise of my reason and judgment during all of my illness and suffering. 



" I think that God's purposes respecting me in this life are nQw pretty 

 much answered, unless it is his holy and righteous will that I suffer more 

 here. 



** I think it must constitute a grand and important element of the happi- 

 ness of Heaven to the saints there who have lived on this earth to know 

 and to feel that by Divine Grace such was the course and conduct of 

 their lives in this sinful and wicked world that the Lord Jesus Christ could 

 own them as his true followers, and call them by the endearing names of 

 'the children of a king,' and 'the sons and daughters of the Lord Al- 

 mighty,' and prepare for them such mansions of glory and happiness.'^ 



