Rebecca Wells

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• Name: Rebecca Rodgers
• Name: Rebecca Rodgers
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-103362
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; C. Presbyterian

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MRS. REBECCAH RODGERS. Her early Church life had been passed in Ayr, where she with her husband, Alexander Rodgers, were charter members of Stanley Street Church, which was organized on October 10th, 1834. She had also enjoyed the ministry of Rev. John Dunbar of Glenmorris, whom she held in high esteem, and of whom she always spoke in terms of admiration. She became a member of the then "Melville Church" on May 17th, 1866. She was quite blind when I came to Galt in 1879 but she recognized me by my voice just as though she had seen me. This infirmity did not hinder her from being in her place regularly at church. She was led thither by her devoted grandchild, Lottie Groff, now Mrs. Alexander McDonald. Her love to God's house was a passion with her. To lose a season of public worship was to her a real deprivation of that which kept her soul alive. She had a constant relish for the sweet fellowship of God's people. Her feeling is fitly expressed in these stanzas:

"I love thy Church, O God,

Her walls before Thee stand;
Dear as the apple of Thine eye
And graven on Thy hand.

"For her my tears shall fall,

For her my prayers ascend,
For her my cares and toils be given,
Till toils and cares shall end.

"Beyond my highest joy,
I prize her heavenly ways;
Her sweet communion, solemn vows
Her hymns of love and praise."


Her mind was well stored with the precious and incorruptible seed of the Word, and nothing brought her greater joy than a conversation on the deep things of God and the great things of His law. She had a rich experience of divine things, and as a result, was a woman of strong character and of striking individuality, who has left her impress upon her children. She was quick in her mental movement, had a bright, cheery tone in her voice, and an animated action accompanying any sentiment to which she gave expression. Everything bore evidence of a kind and warm heart. Her memory of the Scriptures was distinct and accurate. Some times her granddaughters in reading to her would venture to skip a verse or two, and at once the culprit would be caught and the full tale of verses given. Her judgment on great moral questions was not to seek. It was formed after careful and just thought and was always ready. She took a deep interest in moral reform and especially in that phase of it, the Temperance Movement. One day we were speaking on the intemperance of our times, and I ventured this statement, that Galt was a very sober place, and that much strong drink could not be sold in it, and at once she replied like the shooting of a dart, " Aye, and what keeps up a thae taverns ? " That question has in it an unanswerable argument. She had her grand daughter at church take down the text and the heads of discourse, and as much of the sermon as she could gather up, for the sake of keeping the pulpit teaching in memory and discussing it perhaps during the week. She was scrupulously careful in moral training and spiritual culture. In the new world created by the revelation of God she constantly lived, enjoying its peace and its abundance of mercy and grace. How genuine Christianity ennobles the character! and as Edmund Spenser says, in his " Faerie Queen": " The noblest mind the best contentment has." That was seen in Mrs. Rodgers, for she was ever happy and contented, taking each day, as it came out of God's hand, a gift of love to her. Her interest in the progress of Christ s cause never abated, but rather grew to the very end.

She died as she lived, trusting in the Lord, to whom long ago she had given herself.

Ebenezer: A History of the Central Presbyterian Church, Galt, Ontario, with brief sketches of some of its members who have passed on the the other side, The Rev. James A. R. Dickson

Rebecca married Alexander Rodgers 14 Mar 1817, Kilspindie, , Perth, Scotland. Alexander was born 1795, , Scotland; died 18 Mar 1861, South Dumfries Twp., Brant Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Ayr Cemetery, Ayr, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Isabella Rodgers was born CA 1814, , Scotland; died 7 Feb 1877, West Zorra Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario.
2. Esther Rodgers was born 14 May 1825, , Perthshire, Scotland; died 6 Oct 1920, Saint Louis, St. Louis (city), Missouri, United States; was buried , Ayr Cemetery, Ayr, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
3. Charlotte Rogers was born 1837, , Ontario, Canada; died 5 May 1870, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States; was buried , Ayr Cemetery, Ayr, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
4. Margaret Rodgers was born 1838, South Dumfries Twp., Brant Co., Ontario, Canada; died 1 Apr 1920, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

Rebecca — Rodgers. was born Abt 1795, of, Ontario; died Bef 1871. [Group Sheet]

1. Charlotte Rogers was born 1837, , Ontario, Canada; died 5 May 1870, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States; was buried , Ayr Cemetery, Ayr, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.