The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-11-19
EYTRACT FROM MINUTES OF
QUARTERLY CONFERENCE or
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EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

SIhOUDSS u On " MI II /AbIA
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
WILLIAM FRANKENFIELD, a Class
Leader, Exhorter and Trustee of this
Church, man of singular earnestness
and Christian devotedness, having passed
away from his earthly to his heavenly
home, very suddenly, on Wednesday
morning, the 26th instant, at about halfPast
s O'Clock, the members of this Quarterly
Conference desire in this minute, to record
their appreciation Of his great worth as an
unassuming sincere, true man Of God,
whom we shall greatly miss, but whose
influence will long survive him for good IN
the Church, the home, and community,
where all were compelled by the sanctlty
and purity of his life to respect and
venerate him and we hereby direct that
copy Of this paper be presented to the
bereaved family with the assurance OF our
tcnderest sympathy, and published in the
County papers as an expression OF our
estimate of the public loss we have sustained.
WILLIAM B. WOOD, President.
John B. STORM, Secretary.
Stroudsburg, Pa, Oct. 30th, 1874.
WILLIAM FRANENFlELD.
When the announcement was made a
few weeks since Of the death Of this worthy
citizen, unmistakable tokens Of grief were
generally manifest. A large concourse assem-
bed at his funeral to testify their respect
for his memory, and the general remark on
the lips Of all who knew him was, "a good
man has been taken from our midst
This astimable and useful man was born
in Middle Smithfeld township in this coun-
ty, on the 18th of September, 1918, and
died on the 2Sth of October 1874, in the
9th year of his age His whole life was spent
in this community, and for him to have
claimed as he has done, the respect and es-
TEEN of such of wide circle of those who
have had an acquaintance with him more
or less intimate for longer or shorter
period during this more than half q cen
! tury is no small evidence of his great worth.
He was brought in contact with men in
many ways, during his entire life, for the
he filled many positions and was never idle
but always industrious and so transparently
pure was his character, so thoroughly sin
cere and honest his goodness, that | have
yet to find the first person who would
whisper aught against his unsullied excel
lence.
In his domestic relations he was lovely
and beloved. His widow mourns his loss
as one of the kindest and best husbands
his childron as one Of the very best fathers.
The desolatiou which comes to the home Of
such man when he is slnitten down, and
especially with such suddeness rs in his
case is intense Few desolated homes have
more occasion for grief than William Frank
Ienfeld's, because few lose 50 much in the
head of the family as they have done, and
yet few have so little, because he was SO
Scertainly prepared for death, sudden as it
was, and has entered by death upon a
Fcareer of unmixed felicity and dignity.
Our departed brother has been i6g thir-
fty FIVE years consistent and most worthy
Emeinbcr of the Methodist Episcopal church,
land it may be said of him that he adorned
the doctrine Of God his Saviour, in all
things His brethren honored him and
for years he was an cfhce-bearer In the
church, filing most seceptably the offices Of
trustee classleader and exhorter- His
Epicty was joyous, steady and consistent.
The night before he died he met his class
and told them he did not expect to live
long, though he was then almost in usual
health, but told them also of his full pre-
paration. of death, for said he, "Job nearly
two thousand years before Christ could
say. II knew that my redeen1er Eveth and
50 can / nearly two thousand years since
the coming o. Christ, adopt his words and
say-sI know that my Redeemer iyeth. %
His last words on cath were those ofpraise
and prayer, and his ceasHless language in the
bright world to which he i.1s gone Is that
doubtless of exultations and trICmpth.
JOHN F. CHAPLAIN.
Stroudsburg, Nov 18th, 1874.