Rev John Luther Burchard b. 1824 DE-MO-CA
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Rev John Luther Burchard b. 1824 DE-MO-CA
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Posted: 30 Jan 2008 12:28AM GMT |
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Sacramento, Cal, Sept 10, 1881
I recollect too, that after my interview with Bishop Harris, Rev. J.L. Burchard came to me and pleasantly said: “I want you to remember that Logan Harris was not the only boy you helped start out to work in the old M.E. Church.
Of course I had not forgotten the sincere, honest, earnest face of the boy, when I took him by the hand and welcomed him into the M.E. Church. And this brings up other reflections. I remember the little girl who is now “Grandmother Burchard”, when I took her on my knee to keep her quiet, while my dear friend, her father, REV Jonas Heath, was preaching to a great congregation in Virginia, and urging , in eloquent and loving strains, that “godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.”
I remember too, how pleasant it was to meet Brother Heath and family, years after this, over the Mississippi, in Missouri, and there renew the dear friendships of earlier years. And also of the sad sight after
this viewing of the fatal tree which fell on my dear friend and brother, Jonas Heath, and took him off instantly into the eternal world.
Excerpt from a book entitled Autobiography of Lorenzo Waugh
Note: Rev J.L. Burchard referred to is Louisa Heath’s husband, the Rev John Luther Burchard whom she married in Benton Co MO and later moved to California with in Spring 1860. Louisa was the eldest daughter of (Rev) Jonas B Heath, son of Israel Heath and Elizabeth Blue.
I recollect too, that after my interview with Bishop Harris, Rev. J.L. Burchard came to me and pleasantly said: “I want you to remember that Logan Harris was not the only boy you helped start out to work in the old M.E. Church.
Of course I had not forgotten the sincere, honest, earnest face of the boy, when I took him by the hand and welcomed him into the M.E. Church. And this brings up other reflections. I remember the little girl who is now “Grandmother Burchard”, when I took her on my knee to keep her quiet, while my dear friend, her father, REV Jonas Heath, was preaching to a great congregation in Virginia, and urging , in eloquent and loving strains, that “godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.”
I remember too, how pleasant it was to meet Brother Heath and family, years after this, over the Mississippi, in Missouri, and there renew the dear friendships of earlier years. And also of the sad sight after
this viewing of the fatal tree which fell on my dear friend and brother, Jonas Heath, and took him off instantly into the eternal world.
Excerpt from a book entitled Autobiography of Lorenzo Waugh
Note: Rev J.L. Burchard referred to is Louisa Heath’s husband, the Rev John Luther Burchard whom she married in Benton Co MO and later moved to California with in Spring 1860. Louisa was the eldest daughter of (Rev) Jonas B Heath, son of Israel Heath and Elizabeth Blue.