FAMOUS SECKERSONS

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Anthony Bird Seckerson -
Christened 23rd October 1768 at Uttoxeter, Stafford England. His parents were Samuel Seckerson and Jane Bird.
Anthony married Mary Sankey at St. Martins in Birmingham on 19th October 1789.

He became a Methodist Preacher and the following summary is taken from the Methodist Journal:
ANTHONY B. SECKERSON. He entered upon the itinerant work in the year 1793, and continued to travel for thirty-five,
years, when he became a Supernumerary, and resided chiefly in I Bristol. Through the entire course of his public labours, he maintained an
irreproachable character, and the esteem in which his friends held him, as a truly good man, increased to the last. He was a diligent student
of the Holy Scriptures; and the fruits of his diligence appeared in his instructive and edifying ministry. His preaching was intelligent,
judicious, pointed; and many of his sermons were beautiful elucidations of Scripture, applied to the best practical uses. Under the infirmities
of age, in the meeting of classes, and in pastoral visitation of the sick and poor, he laboured faithfully to the end of his life.

While in London, attending the last Conference, in crossing one of the streets he was thrown down by a carriage, and taken up in a state of
insensibility. Though he seemed to recover, yet he received an injury which hastened his end. "You are upon the rock, Mr. Seckerson," said one
of his friends a little while before his death. "Yes, Sir," said he, "and I feel I have firm footing." He died October lst, 1834.

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Edward Seckerson
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