He is buried under the Washington Street Methodist Church, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina.
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REV. A. M. CHREITZBERG DEAD
Rev. Dr. Abel M. Chreitzberg, one of the oldest and best known ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church of South Carolina, died yesterday at Columbia at the advanced age of 88 (sic) years.
Dr. Chreitzberg was especially well known in Charleston among the older people of his church, where he labored for a number of years, serving as presiding elder of the Charleston district and also officiating as pastor at several of the local churches. . . .
Dr. Chreitzberg married a Charleston woman, Miss Anna E. Manneau in 1839 and upon her death (in 1873) he married a Miss Hattie Kilgore, of Newberry. He is survived by one son, Rev. Hilliard F. Chreitzberg, of North Carolina and his daughter, Mrs. George S. King of Columbia.
Source: Evening Post (Charleston, SC), Thursday, October 22, 1908, pg. 5
He is buried under the Washington Street Methodist Church, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina.
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REV. A. M. CHREITZBERG DEAD
Rev. Dr. Abel M. Chreitzberg, one of the oldest and best known ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church of South Carolina, died yesterday at Columbia at the advanced age of 88 (sic) years.
Dr. Chreitzberg was especially well known in Charleston among the older people of his church, where he labored for a number of years, serving as presiding elder of the Charleston district and also officiating as pastor at several of the local churches. . . .
Dr. Chreitzberg married a Charleston woman, Miss Anna E. Manneau in 1839 and upon her death (in 1873) he married a Miss Hattie Kilgore, of Newberry. He is survived by one son, Rev. Hilliard F. Chreitzberg, of North Carolina and his daughter, Mrs. George S. King of Columbia.
Source: Evening Post (Charleston, SC), Thursday, October 22, 1908, pg. 5
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