"They rest from their labors, and their works do follow them."

NAME		CONFERENCE ENTERED ITINERANT MINISTRY		TIME OF DEATH
Isaac Burns	21	Illinois	1848	September 4, 1872	72	24
J. J. Roberts	....	Genesee	1853	March 14, 1873	52	20
Thos Alexander	6	Indiana	1850	June 4, 1874	51	24
D. J. Ward	....	Nebraska	1871	1875
M. Prichard	17	Kansas and Nebraska	1858	March 24, 1877	60	19
David Hart	9	Kansas and Nebraska	1858	January 14, 1878	57	20
T. A Hull	12	Nebraska	1872	March 1, 1878	57	5
A. J. Combs	20	Nebraska	1875	January 13, 1878	33	3
W. B. Slaughter	16	Genesee	1845	July 26, 1879	57	34
C. W. Giddings	18	Oneida	1835	Dec. 23, 1879	70	47
A. L. Goss	12	Nebraska	1873	September 30, 1880	33	7
J. T. Cannon	17	Missouri	1851	July 24, 1883	69	32
A. G. White		Rock River	1859	November 3, 1883	....	24
H. W. Warner	16	Nebraska	1882	August 9, 1884	29	3
Samuel Wood	21	Central Illinois	1868	January 3, 1885	45	17
W. D. Gage	21	New York	1828	November 20, 1885	82	50
W. E. Davis	....	Indiana	1867	Febuary 27, 1886	50	19
T. S. Gross	14	St. Louis	1884	October, 1885	26	2
William Peck	33	Nebraska	1871	July 1, 1888	51	11
Abijah Marine		North Indiana	1855	July 12, 1890	58	34
W. J. Pitchford	20	Ohio	1881	September 30, 1890	36	9
S. D. Roberts	16	Nebraska	1873	August 16, 1893	44.	20
W. H. Tibbits	16	Nebraska	1874	May 5, 1893	54	19
L. F. Beach	23	Dakota	1888	August 24, 1893	30	5
W. G. Miller	17	Wisconsin	1844	December 20, 1893	71	5
H. M. Laney	36	Central Illinois	1870	December 30, 1893	59	23
R. Cooley	5	Genesee	1852	March 18, 1894	68	42
G. S. Alexander	18	Providence	1857	May 2, 1894	62	37
Edward Hawes	12	Newark	1858	May 20, 1894	59	36
E. J. Willis	14	Nebraska	1873	May 17, 1896	63	41
R. C. Johnson	12	Nebraska	1863	June 29, 1896	61	33
Z. B. Turman	20	Kansas and Nebraska	1858	1897	78	40
A. Brigham	17	Wyoming	1858	September 21, 1896	73	38
A. J. Marsh	16	Wisconsin	1877	January 8, 1899	48	22
W. R. Jones	16	Wisconsin	1854	January 11, 1899	71	45
E. J. Bird	22	North Carolina	1867	April 13, 1899	59	32
E. Wilkinson	..	Michigan	1860	April 23, 1900	78	40
I. C H. Hobbs	15	Missouri	1865	July 28,1900	73	35
D. P. Kline	....	Nebraska	1891	September 6, 1900	52	26
G. B. Crippen		New York	1854	April 23, 1902	71	48
J. L. Fort		Illinois	1851	May 22, 1902	86	51

   G. B. Crippen was born in New York, January 22, 1831. His parents dying when he was quite young, he was obliged to depend upon himself. He early learned the value of an education and devoted himself to securing one. He attended the New York Conference Seminary and was for some time a teacher. Being called to the ministry, he became a member of the New York Conference in 1854. His ministry was greatly blessed of God, resulting in extensive revivals. After spending nineteen years in the active work of the ministry he was transferred to the Nebraska Conference. After three years of service in Nebraska, while attending a funeral, he contracted a cold which brought on physical infirmity that made it impossible for him to remain in the active ministry. This was a sore trial to him but he bore himself with submission and cheerfulness.
   On August 29, 1855, he was married to Miss Adaline Palmer. Five children were born. Two sons and two daughters survive. The two sons are members of the West Nebraska Conference. His wife dying, Brother Crippen was married in 1877 to Miss Amy Chase. Brother Crippen was a deeply pious man. He lived with a conscious experience of the Divine Presence. As he approached the end his faith was undimmed and when the change came, the 23rd of last April, he passed over to wear the victor's crown.

   Jesse L. Fort was born in Warren County, Ky., May 4, 1816, and died May 22, 1902. He entered the Illinois Conference in 1851, transferred the same year to the Missouri Conference, to the Iowa Conference in 1856, and to the Nebraska Conference in 1861. He was in the active work of this Conference for five years and a superannuate for thirty-six years. He was for two years chaplain of the state senate. Many years ago he received an injury to his spine which ultimately caused his death. He will be remembered by many of the early pioneers and the older brethren of the Conference as a true man and a faithful minister of the grace of God. He shared in many of the hardships incident to the early life of the frontier and the formation of the Nebraska Conference, which at that time included the entire territory of Nebraska. He died at University Place. His funeral was conducted by his pastor, L. C. Lemon. His body was taken to Palmyra for burial.

   Mrs. J. W. Taylor for years past lived quietly with her husband, one of the founders of Methodism in Nebraska. The tributes paid to her by members of the Conference in the memorial services were full of testimony concerning her labors as a minister's wife and her character as a mother in Israel. The details concerning her death were not accessible at the time of the memorial service.

   This woman of God was for years a faithful worker with her husband in the itinerant ranks of the Nebraska Conference. She passed to her reward during the present Conference year. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."

   Fannie P. Tinker was born at Chelsea, Vt., June 14, 1822, and died October 27, 1901, at Claremont, N. H. In 1851 she was married to the Rev. Alfred Brigham and for twenty-five years, cheerfully and faithfully labored with him on the charges that he served in Wyoming Conference, in southern New York and northern Pennsylvania. They moved to Nebraska in 1878, where Mr. Brigham continued in the ministry five years more. They then returned to Newark Valley where the husband died in 1890. Mrs. Brigham was a woman of intelligent piety and strong faith. She loved the work of her husband and with him entered heartily upon it to build up the kingdom of Christ.

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