Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . in Wilmington, Del., April 17, 1832. By this mar-riage he had one daughter, a lovely girl, who survived hermother but a few months. An old Methodist writes on theauthority of the Rev. A. Atwood, that both mother and daughterare buried in Wilmington, Del., in the grounds of the AsburyMethodist Episcopal The pastor of that church, in1881, wrote as follows: I have inquired and searched diligently in reference to the persons aboutwhom you in
Old Sands Street Methodist Episcopal Church, of Brooklyn, [electronic resource]: an illustrated centennial record, historical and biographical . in Wilmington, Del., April 17, 1832. By this mar-riage he had one daughter, a lovely girl, who survived hermother but a few months. An old Methodist writes on theauthority of the Rev. A. Atwood, that both mother and daughterare buried in Wilmington, Del., in the grounds of the AsburyMethodist Episcopal The pastor of that church, in1881, wrote as follows: I have inquired and searched diligently in reference to the persons aboutwhom you inquire. The first wife of Lawrence MCombs is not buried in thegrounds of Asbury M. E. church. His daughter is, but there is no stone,that I can find, to mark her On the 4th of April, 1833, Mr. MCombs was married to Andrews, of Philadelphia,18 whose fortitude and kind-ness contributed much to the comfort of his declining years. 19 15 Bishop Scott, in Sprague. 16 John Whiteman, of Philadelphia, letter to the Rev. Charles Hill, letter to the author. 18 Notice in The Christian Advocate and Journal. 19 Rev. GEORGE ROBERTS, M. D. From Centenary Album, by Roberts, Raltimore, 1866. ROBERTS. he Rev. George Roberts, M. D. was born about1766, of English parents, probably after their immi-gration to the neighborhood of Easton, Pa. Dur-ing his boyhood he worked on his fathers farm. He wasstudious, and often sat in the chimney corner, reading by thelight of the fire such books as he could find. Candleswere an expensive luxury which his parents could not af-ford. His Christian life began on the 29th of April, 1783,when he was seventeen years of age. After his fathers deathhe managed the little farm for his mother, who was a gentle,amiable woman, a member of the Church of England, as wasalso his sister, Mrs. Rue. His son relates that his first efforts at preaching weremade when he was about nineteen years of age. His youthand unpretendin
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