This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HAIGHT, RUTHERFORD, GORRIE Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2RB.2ACE/8511 Message Board Post: Northern Christian Advocate - October 5, 1859 Miss Lydia E. HAIGHT, of Parishville, St. Lawrence County, New York, died in Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York, August 1st, 1859, in the 35th year of her age. Sister Haight spent the last years of her life in the village of Potsdam, where she greatly endeared herself to the members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was an eminently devoted and consistent Christian. With her, religion was a reality----a soul saving reality. Her end was eminently triumphant and glorious. She asked those who surrounded her dying bed to shout with her the praise of God; and in this happy frame of mind she passed away beyond the reach of pain and sorrow. Black River Conference Potsdam District Potsdam Methodist Episcopal Church Rev. Peter Douglass Gorrie August 8, 1859 Additional information: Note 1: 1840 US Census - Parishville, Saint Lawrence County, New York - Line 20 - Benjamin HAIGHT Note 2: 1850 US Census - Town of Parishville, St. Lawrence County, New York - Surname: HAIGHT - Benj., age 57 - Emily age 50 - dau Mary age 16 - son John age 13 Note 3: 1850 US Census - Town of Stockholm, St. Lawrence County, New York - Surname: MAYHEW - John L., age 49, farmer - Lucinda age 48 - Emma J., age 7 - Peter age 71 - Rufus MEAD age 25, farmer - Lydia HAIGHT age 24 - Philander CHASE age 25, farmer Note 4: 1850 US Census - Town of Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York - Surname: GORRIE - Rev. P. D., age 27, Methodist Episcopal clergyman - Jane E., age 24 - dau Mary D., age 10 - dau Sarah J., age 8 - dau Emma E., age 5 - dau Harriet age 2 Note 5: 1860 US Census - Potsdam, St. Lawrence County, New York - Surname: GORRIE - P. D., age 47, Methodist Episcopal clergyman - Elizabeth age 35 - dau S. J., age 18 - dau Emma age 15 - dau Harriett age 10 - dau Frances age 7 - son D. D., age 4 Note 6: Rev. P. D. Gorrie served the Canton (NY) Methodist Episcopal Church 1836-1837, 1851-1852 - now known as Canton United Methodist Church and is in the Northern Flow District, North Central New York Conference http://www.cantonum.homestead.com/Centennial.html Note 7: Parishville (NY) Methodist Episcopal Church is now known as Parishville United Methodist Church and is in the Northern Flow District, North Central New York Conference http://history.rays-place.com/ny/parishville-ny.htm Note 8: Rev. P/ D Gorrie served the Potsdam Methodist Episcopal Church 1849-1850, 1858-1859 - now known as the Potsdam United Methodist Church and is in the North Central New York Conference http://archives.umc.org/Directory/ChurchDetails.asp?mid=222&FAC=20380 Note 9: Rev. P. D. Gorrie wrote the following books: l. The Black River Conference Memorial: containing sketches of the life and character of the deceased members of the Black River Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church (1852) 2. Episcopal Methodism, as it was, and is (1852) http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AGV9049.0001.001 3. The lives of eminent Methodist ministers (1852) http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AGU9476.0001.001 Note 10: Rev. Peter D. Gorrie - see memoir: Northern New York Conference Journal, 1885, page 34 Elizabeth P. Gorrie - see memoir: Northern New York Conference Journal, 1881, page 30 Margaret C. Cochran Gorrie - see memoir: North New York Conference Journal, 1898, page 71 http://www.ncnyumc.org/archiveshistory/memoirs.html Note 11: 1848 Map Towns of St. Lawrence County, New York - includes Parishville and Potsdam http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/NY/SaintLawrence/maps Note 12: 1865 Beer's Atlas St. Lawrence County, New York http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~clinton/stlawrence.htm Note 13: Picture of First Methodist Church Potsdam, New York http://www.potsdam.ny.us/pics/town/14.gif Note 14: Cambria County, Pennsylvania Genealogy - History of Cambria County (1907) - volume 2, page 506, (VIII) - Benjamin Haight and Emily Rutherford http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacambri/books/Storey/v2/p506.html