The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-22
oBIrUARY NOTES.
Death of William N. Bray in Eufau'u,


 The many friends of William Il, Bray of Eufaulu, Ala, will regret to hear of his death, which occurred on Friday last. Mr. Bray was about the same age of Willett and Willis B. Hemingway, Joseph L. Deming and pr. Stone, all we'll remembered Fair Ha- ven citizens. He was a brother of Wells J. Bray and Mrs. Lester P. Nal lory of this city.
 THE LATE WILLIAM D. McLELLAN
 William D. Mcclellan of the Four Corners, this city, who died at his home on Wednesday, the 16th inst, was buried on Saturday, the 18th. The fu- neral services were held in the St. An drew's Methodist Episcopal church, of which he was member The pastor, Rev. Elmer A. Dent, assisted by the Rev. A. J. Smith of East Norwalk, a former pastor, officiated. A large con- course of people were present. There were a number of floral tributes about the altar. Some of these were emblems
 
 was written Our Father" given by the sons; a center piece in the form of a wreath lettered with "Our Superin- tendent," given by the Sunday school; Tyre inscribed with "At Rest" pre- sented by the church, were conspicu- ous; also shield and anchor given by the A. O. U. W.
 The pallbearers were selected from among those who had been associated with him on the official board of the church. They were William Roberts, l.. C.. Porter, George Saunders, M. w. | Jacobs, William G. Brenner and Charles Wilcox. The choir of St. An | drew's church rendered appropriate music, The burial was in East Haven cemetery.
 w. D. Mcclellan was born in Paisley, Scotland, fifty-five years ago. His parents with their family came to the | United States when he was about twelve years of age. They were ship | wrecked on crossing the ocean, which | bereaved him of two sisters. The fam fly first resided in Norwich, Conn. | Here, while a boy the subject of this | sketch was converted and united with the Sachem street Methodist Episcopal | church. He had been active in re- | ligious work ever since. He had re- l sided in both Westerly, R. l., and | Hartford, Conn. But for over thirty years he had been resident of New Haven. By trade and occupation he was a coach-lan1p maker.
 | Twenty three years ago he moved into the neighborhood of the east side | He found here very poor church fa- | cilities. He began at once to hold prayer meetings in his own house Soon the homes of his neighbors were open to him for these meetings. He also taught a Sunday school in his owr home. The fruit of this work was the formation of Sunday school in Au. gust, 1880, which met in an upper room l of the schoolhouse at the Four Corners | for three years.
 | In 1883, this school had grown SC large that a chapel was built for it's ac. l commodation on land belonging to MT l McLellan's mother-in-Iaw. Out of tho | Sunday school and weekly prayer | meetings held in this chapel the St | Andrews church was organized in 1886 Tn 1892, the present church edifice was built, and during the present passionate a beautiful and commodious parsonage has been purchased. All these effects are the direct results of the enterpris, inaugurated by MT. Mcclellan in hi cottage prayer meetings over a SCOT, of years ago. He was superintendent of the Sunday school through all thu eighteen years of it's existence. H. held the offices of trustee, steward, ant local preacher in the church from tn time of it's organization.
 At the funeral services, in his re marks, the Rev. MT. Smith dwelt ol personal "reminiscences. The pastor Rev. MT. Dent, spoke from the text And they buried him in the city o David among the kings, because he hac done good in Israel, both toward Got and toward His house."-2 Chron. 24:1f