The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-01-18

Hereford, 7th District.-Revival services
have been in progress in the M. E. Church here
conducted by the pastors, Rev. I. NJ. West and
f. |. Mumford.
Mr.. John Galley, of Bedford, Pa, has been
visiting his sister, Mrs. Luke Price, near Here
ford, and also his cousin, Mrs. William Arnold.
Mr.. John T. Mays, of this place. who has
been indisposed for some time, does not inn
prove. as rapidly as his friends would wish.
They hope to see him out again soon.
Miss Hester Mays has returned to her home,
near Hereford, after protracted visit to rela-
tives and friends in Baltimore and Brooklyn.
Mrs. Clarence Snyder has returned to her
home in York, Pa. after visiting her mother,
Mrs. Jane Young, and her brother, Mr.. Valen-
tine Young, of this place.
Mr. James Ryan, of Hagerstown, Md, has
been guest of friends here.
Mrs. Melvina Turnbaugh, who spent some
time with relatives in Baltimore, has returned
to her home here.
Eureka Council Jr. o. U. A. NJ, of this
place, has elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: Junior Past Councillor. Chas.
=: Knight; Councillor, J. Walter Turnbaugh /;
VICE. Councillor, Wilmington ". smith; Re
cording Secretary, Walter D. Merryman ;
Financial Secretary Emory A. Burton; Treas
urer, Joshua W. Armacost; Chaplain. John
B. Kelley Conductor, s. M. Swift; Warden,
Charles E. Knight; Inside Sentinel, George w.
Howard Trustees, John E. Lloyd, s. Howard
Miller and Clarence Cole; Representative to
State Council, Walter D. Merryman. ].
Death of an Aged and Widely Known
Methodist Minister.-Rev. Asbury r. Kelley,
a we'll known minister of the M. E. Church.
died at his home in Cumberland, Md, on Sun
day afternoon last after an illness of several
months, aged 10 years. He had been in failing
health several years, and IN 1910 took super
animated relation in the Baltimore Conference
After retiring from the active ministry he loca-
ted with his family at Towson for awhile and
then removed to Cumberland, where he had
since lived For five years he was pastor of
Towson M. E. Church, when he was appointed
pastor of Kingsley Church, Cumberland, where
be remained but two years and was compelled
by failing health to give up active work and
withdraw from the itinerancy. During his
pastorate here he built Lakeview Church, in
Dulany's Valley. Other appointments in Bal
timore county he filled during the AZ years of
active work in the ministry were Bentley
Springs (now Parkton) Circuit, Long Green
Circuit and Highlandtown and Patapsco Cir
cult.
Rev. Mr. Kelley entered the Baltimore Con-
ference in 1858. He was afterward transferred
tothe Pittsburg Conference, then to the West
Virginia Conference and filled important sta
tions in all. The first time he was stationed in
Cum berland, in 1870. he built Centre Street
Church, the principal M. E. Church of that
city, in which the funeral service took place
on Tuesday afternoon.
He was a member of a noted family of
preachers. He was son of Rev. James Kelley
and was a native of Charlestown, Jefferson
county, w. Va. A brother of Rev. Mr.. Kelley,
Rev. DR.. ]. McKendree Kelley, whose death
occurred some years ago, was one of the lead
ing ministers of the Baltimore Conference. An
uncle, Rev. Tobias Kelley, was prominent
among the early itinerants of the Methodist
Church. The only surviving member of the
Baltimore Conference who entered that body
with Mr.. Kelley in 1858 is Rev. Joseph R..
Wheeler, a superannuated minister living at
Reisterstown. Baltimore comfy.
Rev. Mr.. Kelley is survived by widow,
who was Miss Lowe, of York county, Pa,
and the following children: Mr.. ]. McKen-
dree Kelley, of Harrisburg, Pa. Mrs: John r.
Slade, of UnionvilIe, 18th district; Mrs. Ollie
Smith, of Woodsboro, Md, and Miss Edith
Kelley, of Cumberland.
Rev. W. W. Barnes. pastor of Centre Street
Church, had charge of the funeral services, as
sisted by Rev. DR.. NJ F. B. Rice presiding
elder of the Frederick District, and Rev. VIM.
F. Roberts pastor of Kingsley Church, Cum
berland The interment was in Rose Hill
Cemetery.