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Note: Rebecca Hogarth Dennis 3/17/1893 ____________________________________________ 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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