Place and Date of Birth:

1853

Place and Date of Death:

1879 Nov 7

Site:

Ebenezer Methodist
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Monumental Inscription

Erected by the EBENEZER Congregation
In loving memory of
The Revd. JOHN G.EMERSON
Wesleyan Minister
Aged 26 years.
Six weeks after his arrival from ENGLAND
he died of fever November 7th.1879.
and is here laid to rest
till the day break
and the shadows fade away
It matters not at what hour of the day the righteous
fall asleep.Death cannot come to him untimely who is
Fit to die. The less of this cold world the more of
heaven;the briefer life the earlier immortal