Stockton Daily Independent
Stockton, San Joaquin Co., CA
2-7 MARCH 1863
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>>MONDAY, 2 MAR 1863<<

DIED -- at his residence in Bristol county, N.Y., Sept. 17th, 1862, Rev. Abner REE, aged 66 years. [Deceased was born in Hartford, Conn.; was converted in 1812, and joined the Methodist E. Church, emigrated to New York in 1812, and married in 1819. He was licensed to preach in 1836; ordained Deacon by Bishop SOULE in 1831 [typo? 1841?], and Elder by Bishop WAUGH in 1857. He was several times employed to travel under the Presiding Elder and preached more than 300 funeral sermons.]

Transcribed by Dee Sardoch
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