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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Mary Hogarth Dennis: Birth: 1836 in Ovid, New York. Death: 1923 in Newark, New York

  2. James Hogarth Dennis: Birth: 1839 in Canoga, Seneca Co., NY. Death: 5 MAY 1914 in Portsmouth, R.I.

  3. Henry Seely Dennis: Birth: ABT. 1841. Death: 26 MAR 1909 in Victor, New York

  4. John Dennis: Birth: 1844 in Waterloo, Seneca Falls Co., NY. Death: 31 JAN 1920 in Rochester

  5. Richard Dennis: Birth: 1849. Death: 1914

  6. Jennie Dennis: Birth: AFT. 1849. Death: UNKNOWN


Notes
a. Note:   Rebecca Hogarth Dennis 3/17/1893
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  Mrs. John Dennis
  Mrs. Rebecca Hogarth, widow of the Rev. John Dennis D. D. of the Genesee
 Conference, died at the residence of her son James, rector of St. James
 church, Rochester, N. Y., March 17, 1893.
  Mrs. Dennis was born July 24, 1814. She married Mr. Dennis June 4, 1835.
 Without a death in the family until her husband was called from labor to
 reward, August 8, 1888 she spent forty-six years with him in the �effective
 relation� in the Conference, passed three years beyond to �golden wedding,�
 and out living him four and a half years, attained to almost seventy-nine
 years of age. Her history was his. The parsonage home and the pulpit were a
 unit. His distinguished ministry of more than half a century in Western New
 York was sustained by the unfailing sympathy, the ceaseless prayers of his
 godly wife. Their reward will be one - as twin stars they will shine forever!
  Sister Dennis grew more beautiful as the mortal faded. She would not willingly miss the services of God�S house, and often when younger people
 found the weather too cold or wet to venture out she was in her pew at the
 First Methodist Episcopal church, where she was a member. Only a few weeks
 before her death she attended the great Epworth League service in the rink,
 standing most of the time to hear Bishop Vincent�s sermon. Her last illness
 was brief but severe. surrounded by all her children her testimony was
 complete. She went from them saying in her last conscious moments,
  My hope is built on nothing less Than Jesus� blood and righteousness. The funeral services held at the rectory were memorable. Two sons, the
 Rev. James H. Dennis, rector of St. James church, Rochester, and the Rev.
 Henry S. Dennis, rector of St. Johns church, Homeoye Falls, N. Y., and one
 daughter Mrs. Francis D. Hodgson, whose husband is pastor of the Methodist
 Episcopal church at Ovid, N. Y., the birthplace of the parents and one of
 their fields of labor, represented the holy calling of the father. The other
 children, John Dennis, Jr., telegraph editor of the Democrat & Chronicle, of
 Rochester, Miss Jennie and Richard H. were present. a number of Methodist
 ministers were in attendance, including the venerable Rev. Asa S. Baker ; Dr.
 Bills, presiding elder of the Rochester district, who made the opening
 prayer; Dr. K. D. Nettleton, who read the Scriptures: the Rev. Daniel
 Leisenting, Dr. A. D. Wilbur and others. The undersigned, her pastor, gave
 the funeral address. Many of the Episcopal clergy of Rochester and vicinity
 were present , and Bishop Coxe, of the diocese of Western New York, offered
 the closing prayers. Her sons bore her body to the tomb in Mt. Hope
 cemetery, and her beloved son James pronounced the committal service : �Ashes
 to ashes ....... looking for the general resurrection.�
 Melville R. Webster. Copied by Larry Osborn from old letters.


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