Since making out the list of the members of the Church at the time of our Centennial, three have passed to that bourne from whence no traveler e’er returns.
Our sister, Miss Hattie Gertrude McNichol, daughter of Mrs. Harriet and the late John McNichol, on the eleventh of June.
Our sister, Miss Alice Josephine Woodley, daughter of Mrs. Rebecca and the late John Woodley, on the twenty-eighth of August.
Our aged sister, Mrs. Mary Spurr Harding, widow of our beloved brother, the late Deacon John H. Harding, on the seventeenth of September, in her eighty-ninth year. For some time previous to her death, Mrs. Harding was the oldest member of this Church, and so long as her strength permitted, was a regular attendant at the Sunday and week-night services. For years she took an active part in the work of the Church, and was a leader in the women's societies. Her gentle, loving spirit and thoughtful consideration of others, as well as her simple faith and trust in her Heavenly Father, endeared her to all the members of the Church, and those who knew her longest, loved her best.
“Oh, though oft depressed and lonely,
All our fears are laid aside;
If we but remember only,
Such as these have lived and died!”
HISTORY OF THE MORTGAGES.
The church that was on this corner, and destroyed by the fire of 1877 was free from debt, the mortgage and floating liability having been paid in 1873. The present Church and Parsonage were built in 1877-78, and cost complete, furnished, about $46,000.
The first mortgage put on the property was for $2,500, on the parsonage only. It was dated December 4th, 1878, and given by the Trustees to Mary K. Carey, wife of Rev. G. M. W. Carey, then Pastor of the Church. It was for five years, at a rate of interest of seven per cent, per annum, but in March, 1881 a little over two years after it was cancelled, and another one for the same amount, at six per cent, rate of interest, was given to Sophia Isabella Bliss Robinson, of Fredericton. In 1878 a mortgage for $9,000 was put on the Church, particulars of which is given below. On November 24th, 1884, a mortgage for $2,100, also at six per cent, interest, was given to the Executors of the will of the late James H. Moran. This was paid on August 30th, 1893, as follows:
$1,100 from Estate of the late Deacon Dyall.