Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-04-24
DEATH OF DIR. W. b AVERY
Succumbed at 8 o'clock Tues
z day Morning to Apoplexy.
IL DID NOT RECOVER HIS SPEECH

HE DID NOT RECOVER HIS SPEECH
Had Been Unconscious Since
M Saturday.
The End Was Quiet and Pcacciul-Mrs.
Ee Avery and One OF Her Daughters, Mrs.
& Robert WHIT nnd Gen. I. Thomas Parker
at the Dying Minister'S Bedside.
Tim The Rev. Walter T.. Avery, d. D.,
xastor of Scott Methodist Episcopal
yEhurch, died at 3 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing at Scott parsonage, 500 Poplar
\ 3treet, of apoplexy. He had been I'M
! able to articulate from the time he
Ehd uttered tho words ''Let us pray"
| lph the morning of Sunday, April 18th,
\ When, near the close Of his sermon, the
Afroke of apoplexy came. After his re
Sraoval to the parsonage, DR.. III. II.
ISpruance, who was summoned, told
n his friends that he had fighting
chance, and he continued until last
5t@lturday in q state of semi-cuRscious-
ness, with an occasional rally when he
MAS able to recognize his family and
tfiends.
lt On Saturday he lnpsed into uncon-
Ms quiet and peaceful. AZ his he'd
6ide were his wife, his daughter, Miss
Marion Avery, I'll. w. Doughty Of Bal
Azimore, Mrs Robert Watt wife Of tho
Mesiding elder, and Gen. |. Thomas
MARKER OF the official board of Scott
Church.
#I)r. Avery became pastor of Scott
Church, by assignment at the session
Of Wilmington Conference which met
3 hi Crisfield last month. He was given
an enthusiastic and large reception by
the people of the church, and his pas
tarate opened with unusual promise.
He preached his first sermon on tho
waning Of March Both; conducted the
cohmunion service on the morning of
April 9th, preached that evening, and
his sermon on the morning of tho 18th,
WAS his third in his new charge. His
I spbiect was 1.-THE Symmetrical Man, !"
md his text st. James |, "a: my
bfethren, count it all JOY when We fall
4 1Hto. divers temptations; knowing this,
that the trying of your faith worketh
Fatience. But let patience have her
Nrerfect work, that ye may be perfect
nd entire, wanting nothing" One
&|eN the thoughts which he drew from
#ItHe text was that q person must undergo
i it'll bulatiOn in attaining to the full
3Sxmmetry of manhood. Ha was near
the close of his discourse, when the
&f3ack of apoplexy confused his speech,
&M apparently realizing his condition,
AN&stopped preaching and uttered the
III IDS, Let US pray. The prayer
" S3ls offered by Wilmer f. Drummond
aid was followed by tho hymn. "Thy
a A
9l)88h decided upon. Mrs. Avery sup
n psfted her husband in the few remain
IL {Hf}minutes of the service, and then
ii IaHs#as taken home. Both before and
ai0ee his illness the people of the
s5Nhprch have displayed the greatest
kihdness and affection for him and
th4e are grieyed at the fatal outcome
\ af Mo attack.
ere we're many callers at the par
d aenxge Tuesday, including the resident
IA Mathodist ministers, and members of
nQN congregation. Presiding Elder
k3f{iI{ert Watt was present to assist in
H@arrangements for the funeral
5afhe Rev. Walter T.. Avery, ID. d.,
MAa born at Paramount, Md, 80 years
d pf Becoming student ut Dickinson
! tjg 53lege, he graduated from that insti-
le f41F3Tn in 1875, and thence took u
=
A wANhce he graduated in 1878. From
VI Uiekinson College he received, without
3HoI 9eitation, the degree of Doctor of
w IFiHinity in 1892. tie was q classmate
II pf The Rev. John Y. Dobbins, ID. D.,
n 3qSK1cr pastor of Grace Church, now of
III shG Newark, n. j., Conference. DIR.
V3V5bins continued u close personal
&Ylsnd, and will probably DO at the
gQntral
#EMf Avery Joined tho Wilmington
III 56nfercnce in 1877. His pastoral as
lignments were us follows, 1877: Snow
Elill lS7S-s0, Rockland; 1882, Elk
son 1880, Crisfield; 1867, Fair
Il iunutt; lSSs-9l, Mt. Salem Church,
" M iinington; 1925, Easton; 1886,
n Dover; 1888, Perryville; 1899, New
+ pqft 1900 OIL, Harrison Street Church,
dWMmington 1902, Scott Church. He
i was Presiding elder of the Salisbury
G district in 1897.
81 He was regarded as one of the ablest
y preaclers in Wilmington Conference, .
N man ~ large sympathies, and true in
This friendships. Said DR.. Watt
hi mo minister in the conference, it will
~ true to say, will be more missed
than bel He was singularly successful
as A pastor. All his advance in the
I'll ministry, which was unusually rapid,
4 came Without SOLICITATION.
Dr, Avery was member of the Psi
II Epsilon Fraternity. He had been con
= nected With the faculty of the confer
Il ences md was until recently, trustee
of tho Conference Academy at Dover.
lie was member of tho Board Of
~ Domestic Missions, and was appointed
\ this year one of the visitors to Dickin-
son college.
q In 1881, he married Maria Jones,
/ daughter of an attorney at Elkton,
Md She is sister in law of DIR.
Howard Bratton of that place. Besides
d his wife and daughter Marion, he leaves
another daughter, Martha, who has
M been visiting her uncle in Elkton.
j axsiizts A Child injured.
4 ohert Neeson, aged years, son of Mr..
H ftild Mrs Robert Nesson of No. 403 West
Thita stFeat, climbed upon IA fenc near the