Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History & Culture Enduring Connections: Exploring Delmarva's Black History

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Record #164 from Delaware Annual Conference Methodist Episcopal Church Memoirs 1865-1950

Date of Conference Journal Memoir/Obituary March 21 - 25, 1906
Deceased Person Shelly Jane Gale
Birth 1/25/1874 in Allen, Wicomico Cty, Md.
Death Funeral 11/3/1905 at Zoar M. E. Church. Interred in Eden cemetery, Philadelphia.
Church Service, Charges Served, Affiliated Locations, and Other Biographical Information Converted at 12 yo in Friendship M.E. Chruch, Allen, Md. Parents died when she was 12/13 yo leaving family of 3 girls & 2 boys - she being the eldest. Family moved to Philadelphia under guardianship of an aunt - Mrs. Susan Fields who died in 1899. Shelly took responsibility for family. Member of Zoar M. E. Church. Ordained Deaconess at Annual Conference in 1904.
Family and Other Information Parents: Eliza & Aaron Gale
Online PDF Page Number (if available) haithi trust pdf pg 410 / pg 102
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