Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
Whitesell-Somers Family Web Project - Person Sheet
NameRev. William Denny PAISLEY 85,470, Rev William Denny Paisley
BirthOct 26, 177085
DeathMar 10, 185785
BurialFirst Presbyterian Church, 130 Summit Ave, Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina85,470, Rev William Denny Paisley
FatherWilliam PAISLEY Jr. (1741-1822)
MotherDeliverance PAINE (~1745-1818)
Spouses
BurialFirst Presbyterian Church, 130 Summit Ave, Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina470, Frances Mebane Paisley
Marriage179985
BurialBuffalo Presbyterian Church, 803 16th Street & N Church St, Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina470, Margaret Donnell Paisley
ChildrenSamuel (1794-1885)
Obituary Online notes for Rev. William Denny PAISLEY
Inscription:

(#022A) Sacred to the Memory of / Rev. Wm. D. Paisley, / Born Oct. 26, 1770, / died in Greensboro March 10, 1857 / in the 87th year of his life. /

For nearly sixty years he was a faithful laborer and / successful minister and evangelist of the Lord Jesus Christ. /

He was founder of the Greensboro Church and its first preacher / for some twenty years. In the County of Guilford he spent / the last forty years of his life.

He came to his grave beloved and revered / in a full age as a sheaf of corn in its season and in the mature and / blessed hope and assurance of the resurrection of the body and life everlasting.

Note: Paisley is the founder of First Presbyterian Church in Greensboro, NC. 470, Rev William Denny Paisley


 
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