LD-SPNF-0270

Record Date: 
29 March 2016
Graveyard: 
Newtown Forbes
Exact wording of epitaph: 

                     BLESSED     / DIE IN
                      ARE THE    / THE LORD
                            DEAD       /REV.
                         WHICH      /14.C.13.V

                   IN MEMORY OF THE                  
    REV. JOHN H.J. POWELL A.M.
            THE DEVOTED MINISTER OF
                  CLONGISH PARISH
          FOR NEARLY 7 YEARS AND ALSO
                              FOUNDER
            OF THE LONGFORD PROTESTANT
                      ORPHAN SOCIETY
           WHO DIED ON THE 12TH JANY 1873

                 THIS TABLET IS ERECTED
              IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE BY HIS
                     BEREAVED SISTER
                ELLEN POWELL
                    
                                  ‘PURE RELIGION
                       AND UNDEFILED BEFORE GOD
                           AND THE FATHER IS THIS
                         TO VISIT THE FATHERLESS
                  AND WIDOWS IN THEIR AFFLICATION
                        AND  TO KEEP HIMSELF UNSPOTTED
                               FROM THE WORLD’
                                    JAMES 1.C.27.V.

Memorial Type: 
Wall or mural tablet
Grave location
County: 
Longford
Latitude: 
53.765468990015
Longitude: 
-7.8368702500086
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Rev.
Name: 
John H. J.
Surname: 
Powell
Date of death - day: 
12
Date of death - month: 
January
Date of death - year: 
1873
Address: 
St. Anne's Rectory, Newtownforbes
Notes: 

The tablet was erected by his sister Ellen Powell.