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Rev. Lemuel C. Powers, Middlesex, Vermont
Whose life was marked with uniform consistency and faithfulness, was born in Rochester, this State, August, 1828. He made a Christian profession at the age of 13, and commenced his labors as a Methodist preacher when about 30. His fields were first as a local preacher on Bethel Lympus charge two years; after as Conference preacher there 2 years; next at Topsham 2 years, and then at Moretown in 1864, '66. The first was a dry year, but he labored on earnestly, especially in the Sunday school, and in his second year just as he was prostrated by disease, he was cheered by 12 or 15 persons at North Fayston, embraced in his charge, professing conversion and wishing to receive baptism from his hands; but his work was done, and he received his discharge on the eve of the holy Sabbath, November 18, 1866. To an only brother who watched by his bedside while he was dying, he said: "I am realizing now how
'Jesus can make a dying bed
feel soft as downy pillows are;
and passed without a struggle or groan to his rest.
He left a wife and 4 children. Revs. Gill and Spaulding attended his funeral. After his brethren in the ministry and others bore his body to the grave, the citizens assembled and passed resolutions of respect for his memory and sympathy for his family
Source: History of Washington County Vermont, Collated and Published by Abby Maria Hemenway, 1882.
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