Hi All   Obituary for Charles HARMON   Charles HARMON, was born at Andover, Hants, March 12th,1832. From the earliest days he was subject to religious influences and at eighteen years of age, under the ministration of an unknown local preacher, he found peace with God and joined the Methodist Church. He at once devoted himself to Evangelistic work and in the year 1862 was accepted as a Candidate for the ministry and was sent to South Africa. For the first three years of his ministry he was the colleque of the late REv. George BLENCOWE, and in 1874 he was appointed by the Natal Synod to share in the honour and responsibility of establishing the work of our Church in what is now the Orange River Colony. He spent almost all the remaining years of his life in that province where he was instrumental in erecting many places of worship and where his labours were owned of God in the conversion of many souls. He became a supernumerary in 1902, when he made his home in Durban, where his ministrations were greatly appreciated and many further years of usefulness and hapiness were anticipated for him. He was a good man, faithful in life and doctrine; courteous and friendly in manner; earnest and industrious throughout his whole ministry, and respected and loved by all who knew him. He was on a visit to Bloemfontein when he was seized by brief and fatal illness. He died December 24th, 1902. From: Minutes of Wesleyan Methodist Conference 1903 Page 7-8  Transcribed by   Darryl Allwright P O Box 166 Grahamstown South Africa 6140 Tel: 046-622-8134 Cell: 076-091-2764 Fax: 086-513-3779 darryl.allwright@yahoo.com