This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EQC.2ACI/899 Message Board Post: Bethia Rose, widow of the late David Rose of Yarmouth, died Feb. 26th, 1870, aged 88 years and 10 months. She was one of the first Baptists of Yarmouth. Some 10 years ago she gave the writer an account of her first sight of Father H. Harding, then probably on his first visit to Yarmouth in 1790. She was then 9 years old. She looked upon him as he passed by her father's house with a childish curiosity and fear, because of the character he then bore as a teacher of strange doctrines, and a disturber of the people. In after days she heard with joy the gospel from his lips. After her marriage her house was one of the old ministers homes. Great was her pleasure in the fact that she had lodged and personally waited upon all the old ministers who had visited this country. Her home was one of Father Harding's favorite resorts to the end of his days. You could scarcely convince her that the ministry of these days or the religious exercises of ! the present were equal to the past. Her husband preceded her to the better land some 12 years since, and for the last 20 years she has been confined to her house ---- much of this time to her bed. the welcome messenger at last came, and she rests with her people. J.H.S. >From the Baptist paper: The Christian Messenger: 1870: March 30ieth issue