George Cross's sudden death and divine awareness of the sheep

Brother George Cross, an elderly Latter-day Saint, was walking home from a Christmas day wedding in the company of his son-in-law. Stopping for a moment to observe a group of sheep bunched together, he expressed his appreciation for how God cares for all His creatures. Immediately after speaking these words, he died suddenly after only two heavily drawn breaths.

Fuller account of this event (as retold in The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 58, No. 3 (16 January 1896), p. 47):

Brother George Cross, of the Cheltenham Branch, died suddenly on the 25th of December, 1895. He was homeward bound—returning to a station in the country—accompanied by a son-in-law, and only stopped for a minute to look at a few sheep, that were cosily bunched together, saying, 'How wonderfully God cares for all His creatures;' these were his last words; death claimed him, only two heavily drawn breaths intervened.