Julius Feicke

The Feickes were an older German couple that had five children before they left their hometown of Berlin for America in 1893. A passenger list shows Marie brought four of…

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Samuel L. Gracey

NOTE: In 2011 Laura M. DiPaolo wrote an exhaustive history of the Methodist Ministers’ burial ground, Section 131 at Mount Moriah. “God’s Forgotten Acre” was published in the Journal of…

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Jacob S. Hughes

NOTE: In 2011 Laura M. DiPaolo wrote an exhaustive history of the Methodist Ministers’ burial ground, Section 131 at Mount Moriah. “God’s Forgotten Acre” was published in the Journal of…

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John B. McCullough

John had an extensive resume as a Methodist preacher and an equally busy life in church affairs away from the pulpit. In addition, he was a widower whose second wife…

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Thaddeus Albertus Phillips

Joseph Campbell developed condensed tomato soup when he was 78. Harland Sanders opened his first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant at age 62. Sometimes people find their greatest purpose late in…

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Morgan John Rhees

The following is from Sidney Lee, editor, Dictionary of National Biography, Volume XLIII, 1896, p. 82. The original Welsh spelling of the surname was Rhys, but Morgan changed it to…

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Thomas Ustick

The Ustick family lived in New York City during the Colonial era, where Thomas was one of five children. He was named after his grandfather who was originally from Cornwall,…

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Morgan Edwards

In 18th-century Wales the vast majority of its people spoke Welsh, but as part of the United Kingdom, some knew English as well. Born and educated at home in Wales,…

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Jenkin Jones

William Penn opened his colony to anyone seeking freedom to worship God as they wished. Two years after his Quaker settlement was begun in 1682, a group from Rhode Island…

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Abel Morgan

The country of Wales is about the size of New Jersey, situated on the island of Great Britain to the west of England. It has remained a culturally distinct member…

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