Curious tale of the Rector of St. Bartholomew's P.E.Church at 8th and York Sts., Rev. N. M Jones, sold out from under him at a Sheriff's sale for back taxes, to the RC AD and became the RC St. Edward the Confessor Church. Sold because of a loophole or the P.E. Diocese of Pennsylvania getting rid of a terribly debt ridden parish due to mismanagement of its board of elders? Rev. Norris M. Jones in his last rectorship of the Free Church of St. John's in Kensington, then listed as being on Frankford Road, funeral at the Old St. John's P.E. Church at N. American and Brown Sts. I suspect he is buried under the parking lot behind that old church, now an ethnic church. (clipping The Daily Evening Telegraph 18 June 1869)
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