Alice Belle Garrigus (1858 - 1949)

Born 2 Aug 1858 in Rockville, Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Died 30 Aug 1949 at age 91 in Clarke's Beach, Newfoundland, Canada

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Biography

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Alice Garrigus is the descendant of a Huguenot emigrant.

Alice Belle Garrigus was a pioneer of the Pentecostal church in Newfoundland and was the founding mother of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Newfoundland. She was an example of both Pentecostalism's early egalitarian approach to leadership in ministry, and the central role women have filled in the spread of the Pentecostal movement from its nascent years.

Garrigus was born on August 2, 1858, in Rockville Connecticut. She was raised in the Episcopal Church and later became a member of the Congregation Church. She studied for three years at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary---later Holyoake College---but didn't graduate. She then spent most of her early career as a school teacher. Answering the call to ministry in her later adult years, she became an itinerant preacher for the Congregation Church^[1][2].

In 1907 she experienced the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and joined the Pentecostal Movement. She continued her preaching and the following year, Garrigus felt the call of God to minister in Newfoundland. In December 1910, at the age of 52, Garrigus traveled from the United States to St. John's, Newfoundland, with William D. Fowler and Julia E Fowler, a retired missionary couple. The following year, the Fowlers experienced medical problems and left Newfoundland.

Garrigus continued to lead the Mission, which had a local focus and a slowly growing congregation. An evangelistic campaign in 1919 led by Victoria Booth-Clibborn Demarest was the turning point for the Mission as it became the center point for both the spread of Pentecostalism on the island, and for the establishment of the Pentecostal Assemblies of God in 1925.

Garrigus spent the rest of her life in Newfoundland engaged in the Pentecostal ministry she had founded. She remained single, but had a foster daughter, Nellie Mahoney, who lived with her in Connecticut, and followed her to Newfoundland. In her later years, she retired to Clarke’s Beach, in rural Newfoundland, where she lived in a house she called Rehoboth. She died on August 30, 1949.

Residence 1860

Alice B Garrigus, age 2, was living in Connecticut, with her father Lewis and mother Susan, presumably as boarders in the household of Franklin Pease.^[3]

Residence 1870

Census of Connecticut, United States. Alice Garrigus, age 12. In the household of her father Lewis Garrigus (age 35, born in New York) and her stepmother Eunice C Garrigus (30, born in Connecticut), along with one other sibling and another child, Minnie A Scott (age 5)^[4].

Residence 1880

Census of Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut. Alice B Garrigus (single, female, 21) was in the household of her father Lewis Garrigus (age 45, born in New Jersey) and her mother Eunice C Garrigus (40, born in Connecticut), along with a number of younger siblings^[5].

Residence 1900

Census of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Alice B Garrigus, single, white, 42, was head of a household with two boarders (Madeline Claudine, 10), and Cora Hamblin (25), and a servant Nellie Mahoney (24)^[6].

Residence 1910

Census of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Alice Garrigus, age 51. Single, white, roomer. In the household of William D. Fowler and Julia E Fowler. All born in Connecticut^[7]

Passport Application

Alice Belle Garrigus, 1915, age 57. Born in Connecticut, United States^[8]

Alice Garrigus migrated from Connecticut to Canada.

Residence 1921

Census of St John's, Newfoundland. Alice B Garrigus (63, single, born in Rockville, Connecticut, United States), head of a household containing Nellie Mahoney (boarder, 48, born in Bridgeport Connecticut) and Abagail Tucker (Servant, 80, born in Great Harbour)^[9].

Residence 1935

Census of New Gower St, St. John's West. Alice Garigas (sic) age 77, born in the United States. Head of a household containing Nellie Mahoney (friend, age 59, also born in the United States), and Louise Benson (servant, age 30, b. Newfoundland)^[10].

Residence 1945

Alice B Garrigus (87, born in Rockville Connecticut) was head of a household with Nellie Mahoney (69, Bridgeport Connecticut), and Elsie Morgan (housekeeper, 23, Sunday Cove Island)^[11].

Sources

1. ↑ Heritage, Newfoundland and Labrador, The Pentecostal Assemblies of Newfoundland. Accessed 2018.
2. ↑ Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States, Volume 5. George Thomas Kurian, Mark A. Lamport.Garrigus, Alice Bell, p. 952 Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. Accessed 2018.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHR7-6ZW : 18 February 2021), Lewis Garrigus in entry for Franklin R Pease, 1860.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN7K-3NB : 12 April 2016), Alice B Garrigus in household of Lewis Garrigus, Connecticut, United States; citing p. 25, family 199, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,611.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFCP-F3C : 29 July 2017), Alice B Garrigus in household of Lewis Garrigus, Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States; citing enumeration district ED 34, sheet 20B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0103; FHL microfilm 1,254,103.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9Q8-VLW : accessed 3 July 2018), Alice B Garrigus, Voting District 4 Bridgeport city, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 17, sheet 7A, family 131, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,131.
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKKL-6G4 : accessed 3 July 2018), Alice B Garrigus in household of William D Fowler, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 46, sheet 12A, family 257, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 129; FHL microfilm 1,374,142.
8. ↑ "United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJP-CK65 : 16 March 2018), Alice Belle Garrigus, 1915; citing Passport Application, Connecticut, United States, source certificate #9265, Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925, 271, NARA microfilm publications M1490 and M1372 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
9. ↑ "Newfoundland Census, 1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV1W-P2TL : 16 March 2018), Alice B Garrigus, St John's, St. John's West, Newfoundland, Canada; citing p. 303, household ID 761, line 11, Department of Tourism, Culture, and Recreation, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador; FHL microfilm 2,166,795.
10. ↑ "Newfoundland Census, 1935," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9Z-CNFS : 17 March 2018), Alice Garigas in household of Ida Bartlett, 211 New Gower St, St. John's West, Newfoundland, Canada; citing St. John's West District, p. 703, household ID 303, reference ID , Department of Tourism, Culture, and Recreation, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador; FHL microfilm 2,166,828.
11. ↑ "Newfoundland Census, 1945," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9Z-VVPN : 17 March 2018), Alice B Garrigus, Clarke's Beach, Port de Grave, Newfoundland, Canada; citing Port de Grave District, p. 108, household ID 126, line 38, Department of Tourism, Culture, and Recreation, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador; FHL microfilm 2,167,052.

See also:

• Wikipedia: Alice Belle Garrigus
• Wikidata: Item Q4725752, en:Wikipedia

Acknowledgements

Great thanks to Burton Janes who proofread and corrected this profile, and kindly provided the images.