Ralph M SEARS

• BIRTH: 18 DEC 1880
• BURIAL: ,,,3460

• REFERENCE: 3681

                     _Horace SEARS _
 _Theron M SEARS ___|
|                   |_Harriet AMES _
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|--Ralph M SEARS 
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|_Sarah CULBERTSON _|
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Rasselas L SEARS

• BIRTH: 25 MAY 1811, Bristol,Ontario Co,NY
• DEATH: 11 MAY 1844, Lima,D.S.P.,IN
• BURIAL: ,,,961

• REFERENCE: 836

               _Alden SEARS __
 _John SEARS _|
|             |_Phebe WALKER _
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|--Rasselas L SEARS 
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|_Betsy LOW __|
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Notes

Hand note: Rev Rasselas L Sears, became hopefully pious at the age of 17, at whiuch time, he solemnly consecrated himself to the work of the Gospel ministry, if God should spare his life. After encountering various pecuniary embarassments in obtaining an education, in the autumn of 1838, he was graduated at Union College with high honors. During his college course, he was maintained a consistent Christian character. Though ardent in pursuit of knowledge, he neglected not the cultivation? of his heart. Upon leaving college he engaged in teaching at Utica, NY, where he soon secured the warm attachment of his pupils, and numerous friends, with whom he became acquainted. After pursuing with great industry and success, the prescribed course in the Theo'l Institution at Andover he was licensed to preach the Gospel, and soon after came to Michigan, where he engaged for a year as principal of the Marshall Academy. While there he received a pressing invitation from the churches at Lima and Greenfield, IN, to become their pastor, and acting upon the advice of his friends, he consented to accept the charge. His labors were highly acceptable, and abundantly blessed. Eminently qualified as he was in mind and heart for this work, the recollection of his many virtues will live long in the hearts of his people. By a naturally feeble constitution, and deeply devoted to his studies, the seeds of an insidious and fatal disease had taken deep root before he was aware of its approach. But so ardently desirous was he to lead sinners to the Cross, and to build up the walls of Zion, that he yielded with the greatest reluctance to the entreaties of his friends to suspend his labors in the ministrry. Though the spiritual wants of this new country, his love for his people, the recollection of the years spent in preparation for the ministry, and his tender affection for his beloved companion, all contributed to render life dear to him, yet his wish to be restored to health, if such was the will of God, seemed to arise mainly from his desires to preach the Gospel. But when he became fully aware that his work on earth was done, he desired to be absent from the body, that he might be present with the Lord. Though for him to live was Christ, yet to die was evidently gain. At times, in the early part of his sickness, more particularly, he complained of a want of faith, but usually, all was bright and cloudless, and often times he was favored with enrapturing views of the Savior. While conversing with a brother in the ministry a few days before his death, he pleasantly remarked, "How blessed it is that God takes his own way in remov- ing the timbers, one after another, that sustain the frail tabernacle?" When he became anxious that his last hour was come, like the great apostle, when about to leave forever his beloved church of Ephesus, he sent for the Elders of the Church and in a most solemn and affecting manner exhorted them to discharge their duties and weigh well their responsibilities. He told them of his love for them, and the church, in which they were placed, and expressed his satisfaction that he had remained to die with them, instead of returning to the East. His reason continued to the last. He quietly faded away, like a summer cloud, and fell asleep in Jesus, without a struggle or groan. As a man, he was a gentleman, a Christian gentleman, and a thorough scholar. As a Christian he was a humble and eminently devoted servant of the Cross, and an able and faith- ful minister of the Gospel. The day following his death, which was the Sabbath, attended by his brethren in the ministry, slowly and sadly, his smitten flock bore the remains of this beloved pastor to the grave. Boston Recorder 13 Jun 1844.

Rasselas Low SEARS

• BIRTH: 10 APR 1838, Des Plaines,,IL
• DEATH: 27 MAR 1859, San Antonio,,TX
• BURIAL: ,,,2081

• REFERENCE: 1972

                   _John SEARS _
 _John SEARS _____|
|                 |_Betsy LOW __
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|--Rasselas Low SEARS 
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|_Moranda BLOUNT _|
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Raymond SEARS

                  _Nathaniel SEARS _
 _Leonard SEARS _|
|                |_Lydia ELLIS _____
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|--Raymond SEARS 
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Rebecca SEARS

• BIRTH: 19 MAR 1710/1711
• DEATH: 9 DEC 1765

• REFERENCE: 87

1. David HOWES
2. Thomas HOWES
3. Richard HOWES

                 _Paul SEARS ______
 _Daniel SEARS _|
|               |_Deborah WILLARD _
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|--Rebecca SEARS 
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|_Sarah HOWES __|
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Rebecca SEARS

                     _Paul SEARS ______
 _Josephus SEARS ___|
|                   |_Parnell HAMMOND _
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|--Rebecca SEARS 
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|_Catherine CARTER _|
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Rebecca SEARS

• CHRISTENING: 3 MAY 1741, Harwich,,MA

• REFERENCE: 48

                  _Samuel SEARS _______
 _John SEARS ____|
|                |_Mercy MAYO _________
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|--Rebecca SEARS 
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|                 _Judah PADDOCK ______
|_Grace PADDOCK _|
                 |_Alice (Else) ALDEN _

Rebecca SEARS

• BIRTH: Plymouth,,MA
• BURIAL: ,,,192

• REFERENCE: 55

                       _Paul SEARS ____
 _Thomas SEARS _______|
|                     |_Mercy FREEMAN _
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|--Rebecca SEARS 
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|                      ________________
|_Elizabeth BARTLETT _|
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Rebecca SEARS

• BIRTH: 14 NOV 1732, Yarmouth
• CHRISTENING: 24 JUN 1739, Harwich,,MA

• REFERENCE: 60

                 _Paul SEARS ____
 _Joshua SEARS _|
|               |_Mercy FREEMAN _
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|--Rebecca SEARS 
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|                ________________
|_Rebecca MAYO _|
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Rebecca SEARS

• BIRTH: ABT 1750
• DEATH: 20 MAR 1842, gr-st
• BURIAL: ,,,302

• REFERENCE: 139

                 _Silas SEARS __
 _James SEARS __|
|               |_Sarah CROSBY _
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|--Rebecca SEARS 
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|_Desire TOBEY _|
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