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Also, Rev. Ezekiel Cooper, of Millville, N. J., a local deacon, a man of good report among his brethren, a christian in deed and in truth, one beloved, who died in great peace.
Also, Rev. John B. Scott, a local deacon, of Springtown, N. J., who died full of faith and the Holy Ghost.
We, your committee on memorials, by leave to report the following:
Whereas, by the inscrutable providence of God, Rev. Henry Dickerson, a local deacon of the A. M. E. Church of Woodbury, N. J., has been removed from our ranks by death, we do hereby express our sorrow and bow in humble recongnition to the will of the great disposer of all good. He was born in Talbot county, Md., March 15, 1793, and departed this life in the full triumph of faith, on the 16th of March, 1877, at the ripe old age of eightyfour years. For more than sixty years he was indentified with the church of Christ, and when the standard of African Methodism was raised up, he was among the first to embrace it. For more than half a century he was an active member and minister of our beloved Bethel. The labor of love of Father Dickerson in planting the standard of Jesus and the church of our choice in the western district of this conference can never be forgotten. Can that man be dead whose spiritual influence is upon his kind? He lives in glory and his speaking dust has more of life than half the breathing mortals.
Dear Father and Brethren. - We, your committee appointed on memorials, beg leave to respectfully submit the following statement relative to Rev. G. A. Othello:
He was a native of the island of St. Vincent, one of the British West India Islands, and was born in the year 1848. He
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