MORGAN'S HISTORY OF THE NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE Page 200
Resolved, That we condole with the afflicted and bereft widow of our lamented father and Bishop, and we hope her loss is his everlasting gain.
Brother C. Coakenie was a very pious man and a deacon in the A. M. E. Church at Milford, N. J. The time and place of his birth is blank for want of the necessary information, He departed this life on Monday, the eleventh day of November, A. D. 1872, after a protracted illness of two years, dying in hope of a blessed immortality, in the sixtieth year of his age. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord; yea, saith the spirit, for they rest from their labors and their works do follow."
Your committee appointed on memorials beg leave to report the Rev. Henry Davis, an elder and member of this Annual Conference, in the wise disposition of God's providence, departed this life on the fifteenth day of January 1874, at his home in Burlington, N. J., in full and blessed hope of immortality.
The invisible hand of death hath broken the bands of our ministerial phalanx and in submission we bow.
Elder Davis was born July 15, 1810, in the city of Philadelphia, Pa. He was licensed to preach in 1840, and joined the itinerant ranks in 1844, and died January 15, 1874, leaving to mourn his loss a wife and several children. "Help, Lord, for the good man falls." May the life of the worthy inspire us in the upward course to the rest of the faithful.
Resolved, That we condole with the bereft family. We hope her loss will be his gain in heaven.
Also Rev. Henry J. Rhodes, who was born in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1832, and died in the borough of Morristown, in the year 1873. The early life of Brother Rhodes was not marked by any unusual event. He was recognized by his friends and acquaintances as a person even and gentle in his disposition.
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