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Obituaries - NJ - 1901 - Rev. Robert T. Roche
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An Aged Minister Dead
Rev. Robert T. Roche Dies From the Grip
He Had Been an Episcopal Clergyman Forty-Six Years and for Ten Years He Had Been Stationed at Eatontown
Rev. Robert T. Roche, who had been in the Episcopal ministry for 46 years and who for the past ten years had been pastor of St. James's Episcopal
church of Eatontown, died at that place last Friday morning of pneumonia, after an illness of only three days. He was taken sick with the grip
on Tuesday. The disease developed into pneumonia and he grew rapidly worse until his death. He was to have celebrated his 78th birthday next
month. The funeral was held on Monday at half-past eleven o'clock at the church of which he was pastor. Rev. John Scarborough, bishop ot the
Trenton diocese of the Episcopal church had charge of the service. The pall bearers were the members of the vestry of the church. They were
Lyttleton White, George W. Loversidge, Charles Littlefield, Jr., Albert Phillips, William Ginnevan and James Connelly. The boy choir of the
Eatontown church and the boy choir of the Long Branch church sang at the funeral.
Mr. Roche was born in Novia (sic) Scotia. He entered King's college at Windsor, Novia (sic) Scotia, and received a degree in arts from that
institution. He completed his education at the General Theological Seminary at New York and then returned to Novia (sic) Scotia. He was
advanced to the priesthood by the Lord Bishop of Novia Scotia in 1854. While in Novia Scotia he married Sarah, daughter of James
Borden Palmer of Charlottetown, and a sister of Edward Palmer, chief justice of Prince Edward Island. Mr. Roche began his clerical life as
a missionary in Prince Edward Island under the auspices of the society for the propagation of the gospel. He was a missionary from 1851 to
1866 and he then became rector of Christ church at Riverside, New Jersey. In 1869 he accepted a call to the rectorship of St. Paul's church
at Philadelphia, one of the oldest churches in that city. He remained there until 1872, when he went to Trinity church at Muscatine, Iowa.
After a few years at Muscatine he returned to Philadelphia as rector of St. Timothy's church. Afterward he moved to Florida and served churches
at Palatka and at Monticello. In 1890 he accepted a call to St. James's church at Eatontown and has been rector there since that time.
Source: Red Bank Register, Wednesday, Jan 23, 1901
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