Asbury, Francis b. August 26, 1745 d. March 31, 1816 Religious Leader. Served as the first general superintendent or bishop of American Methodism. He was born near Birmingham in England and came under Methodist influence at an early age. Asbury was accepted as a local preacher at the age of eighteen and joined the itinerancy four years later. At the 1771 Conference, he was one of five volunteers to go to America. At first subordinate to senior colleagues like Joseph Pilmore and Richard Boardman, within twelve months of his arrival Francis Asbury...[Read More] Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Jones, Rev. Eli Stanley b. January 3, 1884 d. January 25, 1973 Methodist Christian Missionary and Theologian. Eli Stanley Jones attended public schools in Baltimore. He graduated from Asbury College in Kentucky. While on the faculty of Asbury in 1907, he was called to missionary service in India under the Board of Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. While serving in India he met and married Mabel Lossing who was also a Christian missionary. Brother Stanley, as he was called, worked among members of the very low castes and the outcastes. He taught...[Read More] (Bio by: Red) Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA Plot: B, Bishops' Lot
Jones, Mabel Trefry b. April 3, 1878 d. June 23, 1978 Methodist Christian Missionary and Educator. Mabel Lossing Jones was a graduate of Upper Iowa University in 1904. She was appointed by the Methodist Episcopal Church mission schools to a girl's school in Khandwa, India. Within a year she became its principal. A few years later, Mabel was sent to Isabella Thoburn College, the first college for women in India. It was here that she met and married Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, also a missionary. Her next move was to Sitapur where she became...[Read More] (Bio by: Red) Mount Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA Plot: B, Bishops' Lot
b. August 26, 1745 d. March 31, 1816