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his employ was a133 ~oundeb" (8). One of the culprits was tried
and sentenced to a nlurlth's imprisnment while the athers fled
tke district 16) Mr. Drew evidently recovered, since his new
wire had a daughter in 1849 (41, Other 1658 worthies of the
town (12) with ploto in the cemetery evidrrltly included Thomas
Samieson (# 631, saddle and harness-maker ; S .P. Maxwell (#I& 1,
saloon-keeper; John BcXerracber (#46], tailor; Robert Mutton
(#22), yeoman1 and E. Morrison {# 781, photographer (little moru
than twenty years after the process was first made public!).
Th; number of Methodists in Pcrth grew from 30, when
M~tcalre took over, to 300 in Ryerson's time, 250 in Williams'
and between 100 and 300 thereafter (11, Those who claimed to be
Methodists in the 1861 Census amou~ted to more than 10% cf the
population 01 Perth (g), but <he membership of the congregation
was only about half of this (I). In 1863 the log chapel has
replaced by a larger church at the same site cn Gore St. (see
Tovm plan), and in 1883 by a twin-spired stone structure. It
became knom as Asbury IvIethodist Church until church union in
1926, a3er which it served (with~ut its spires) as an armoury,
until 1965, 'rrhen 3 t revertad to the Free Methodist Church (9) .
St. PauL's United Church is the successor of the original
lvlethodist congregation.
Other Methodist ministers serving Perth station in the
19th Century (11 included Richard Jones and George Farr 11827),
John Black (15283, Alvah Adams, son of Joshua 118291, John
Carroll (1830-31) , William Patrick (1832-331, Jams Brock
(1534-35) , Hugh Montgomery ( 1E35) , Thomas Xamon and Reuben F .
Tupper (183 61, George F. Playter and William Willoughby 11837 1 ,
John Mchtyre (1836-39), James Currie {1840-41), George B.
Butcher [18&2-43), George Gootson (1644-451, James Greener
11845)., David B, X~dden and Erastus Hurlburt (18461, Francis
Coleman (1647-481, Jnnatnan Scott (1849-50), James P-metrang
[la50], James Gray (1831-521, David C. McDowell (1853-36),
Henry Snton (1657-583, George b?cRitchie (1659-61, 1879-8.31,
Amos 73. E.uas (1862-64), John E. Keagy (166.21, Willim C. Watson
(1863 1, George Ro ers ( 1864)~ William Hansf ord (1865-67 1,
Alexander Lester $1865) . Ebenezer Teskey (1666), Joseph F.
Sandersen (1868-70), Thomas Brock (1871-73), William R. Dfre
(187C-761, Jacob meshmm (1877-781, George H.H. Davis (1881-
82), Richard WhYtfng (1882-651, H. F. Bland (1085-88), Salem
Bland ( 1882-861, W.G. Henderson (1888- 92 3, hh. Jackson (1892-
95) , G. G. HuxSablc (1895-g?) , and s.3. Hughes (189?-r9aol.

The stay of Methodist ministers tn any station was usually
brief, but many served elsewhere in Lanark or ncighbourfng
counties before or aner coming to Perth (I). For example,
James Currie was ordained at Waterloo near Kingston and served
at Richmond, Elizabethtawn, Crosby and Au~usta befare coming
to Perth, rvhere his wife died shortly before the burial ground
was opened (6). Another of these ministers, Alexander Lester,
was buried in th~ cemetery (stone # 103) on August 8, 1870 at
agc 42. He began his minialry on probation in 1861 along the
Rideau Canal, was ordained at Perth in 1865, married George
Kerr's daughter Eliza Anne in 3ecember 1866 while serving in
Playfairville, and novcd to Westrnaath. A third, Jamer Gray,
lo~t his infant son in December 1852 and his ycung wife three
months later (stone #30). He began kis probation in Western