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Asbury's Deathplace

Partlow Rd, VA , USA

Latitude & Longitude: 38° 7' 8.480316", -77° 37' 33.849624"
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A short distance southeast is the site of the George Arnold House where Bishop Francis Asbury died, March 31, 1816. Asbury, born in England in 1745, came to America in 1771 and labored here until his death. He was ordained one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America at the Baltimore Conference of December, 1784.

Last updated: 2/14/2015 15:17:00
 
   
 
 
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