Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . ds with little toobstruct the view ofout-lying fields andhills. She gave 4 lotson Dean-st., that is,a plot 100 feet square,for the building, andmade other large do-nations. One of herlast acts, as she layon her death-bed, wasto place $500 in thehands of her pastor,Saml Law, for herloved Hanson PI. ch. Her grandson, Geo. A. Powers, countedthe money for her in $1 bills. A memorial tablet, near thepulpit in Hanson PI. ch., contains the following insc
Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . ds with little toobstruct the view ofout-lying fields andhills. She gave 4 lotson Dean-st., that is,a plot 100 feet square,for the building, andmade other large do-nations. One of herlast acts, as she layon her death-bed, wasto place $500 in thehands of her pastor,Saml Law, for herloved Hanson PI. ch. Her grandson, Geo. A. Powers, countedthe money for her in $1 bills. A memorial tablet, near thepulpit in Hanson PI. ch., contains the following inscription :In memory of Mrs. Mary Powers ; b. Apr. 20, 1771, and d. inpeace, Aug. 2, 1857, aged 86 yrs., 3 mos., and 13 days. For 60yrs. a faithful member of the M E. ch. Charitable, humble, de-voted; a liberal contributor to this ch. Blessed are the dead whodie in the Lord Her husband was the 2d in a successionof 6, in a direct line, by the name of Geo. Powers. StilesHist, of Bklyn contains a sketch of his father, who was anEpiscopalian. The husband of Mary Powers d. 1829, age 51,and a headstone in the old Sands-st. Meth. shows that32. MRS; MARY POWERS. 476 Old Sands Street Church. he was bur. there. C. C. Smith and Geo. A. Powers are of theopinion that he was a member of Sands-st. ch., but his name isnot found on any existing record of the ch. Mr. Smith waspresent at his funeral, and recollects that Geo. Smith and JudgeGarrison were palUbearers. His son, George, d. in 1832, and isbur. in Sands-st. ; probably not a member. A dau. ofGeo. and Mary Powers, w. of Wm. Jenkins, d. 1828, age headstone in the old —*Pray, John G., cl. trus. in Sands-st. ch.; a native of Kittery, Me.; commenceda sea-faring life when very young; after his marriage came toBklyn, and j. the St. Anns Episcopal ch. Having experiencedconverting grace at a camp-meeting, he united with the Meth- odists; after some time left Sands-st. ch., and became a cl. S. S. s
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