9.5.14

Mark Bartlett

Mark Bartlett was born about 1762. He married Elizabeth Harris in London in 1795 and they had eight children that I know of. He died in 1849 when The Baptist Reporter, and Missionary Intelligencer reported among the Deaths -
"March 18, at Bracknell, Berks, Mr. Mark Bartlett, aged 75 years. He had been an honourable and consistent member of the Baptist church, Fetter Lane, London, upwards of fifty years, having joined that church when it was under the pastoral care of the late Abraham Austin. He died triumphing in the Lord Jesus, exclaiming with peculiar energy, -
                         I'll speak the honours of his name
                             With my last labouring breath,
                         And dying, clasp him in my arms-
                             The antidote of death.
 Mentioning the word antidote three times, and again exclaiming, -
 "Blessed Jesus! Precious Saviour! Thou art my strength and my shield - and my joy too;" his aged wife and children shedding tears of joy because of his victory over death, through the Lord Jesus. Truly, those who are made righteous by the obedience of ONE, have hope in death."
He was interred in the Bracknell PM Chapel in Brimfield Road. 
Elizabeth died a year earlier aged 75, according to her son-in-law's diary.
Their youngest daughter Ruth emigrated to Australia in 1849 with her family.

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