Azael Lovejoy (1820 - 1892)

Born 2 May 1820 in Livermore, Oxford, Maine, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Zintha Stetson (Woodworth) Lovejoy — married 2 Nov 1845 in Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

Died 7 Feb 1892 at age 71 in Burrillville, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

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Biography

Birth

Azael Lovejoy was born at Livermore, Maine, on 2 May 1820, the son of Azael Lovejoy and Mercy (Wing) Lovejoy.^[1]

Marriage

In October 1845, Azael Lovejoy, age 26, and Zintha Stetson Woodworth, age 25, both of Brookline, Massachusetts, published at Brookline their intention to marry. Azael was identified as the son of Azael and Mercy Lovejoy of Livermore, Maine, and Zintha as the daughter of John and Louis Woodward of Fayette, Maine.^[2] They married on 2 Nov 1745.^[1]

Biographical Details

From the Free Baptist Encyclopedia, published in 1889:

Lovejoy, Rev. Azael, son of Azael and Mercy (Wing) Lovejoy, was born in Livermore, Me., May 2, 1820. He studied at East Hebron Academy, North Parsonfield Seminary and at the Bangor Theological Seminary. Converted in 1837, he was licensed in 1853, and ordained in 1854 by Rev's G. W. Bean, J. Mariner and Samuel Small. He has been pastor of churches in Unity, East Corinth, and So. Berwick, Me., and in Great Falls, and East Rochester, N. H. In 1874, he entered his pastorate at Pascoag, R. I. He has enjoyed many revivals, has assisted in organizing churches, and has baptized over three hundred persons. He has been a trustee of Bates College over fifteen years, and about sixteen years a member of the Foreign Mission Board. He married Nov. 2, 1845, Zintha S. Woodworth, and has five children: one the wife of Rev. Joseph A. Chase, and another, Edward F., an attorney-at-law.^[1]

Death

Azael Lovejoy died on 7 Feb 1892, and he is buried at the Pascoag Cemetery in Burrillville, Rhode Island, where his gravestone gives is inscribed with his birth and death dates. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Gideon Albert Burgess and John T. Ward, Free Baptist Cyclopaedia: Historical and Biographical : the Rise of the Freewill Baptist Connection and of Those General and Open Communion Baptists Which, Merging Together, Form One People, Their Doctrines, Polity, Publications, Schools and Missions, with Brief Biographies of Ministers and Others Identified with the Growth and Strength of the Denomination (Boston, 1889), pages 347-348
2. ↑ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016), [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7671/135/142761064 Brookline, page 135
3. ↑ Photo of gravestone of Rev. Azael Lovejoy and "Zintha S. Woodworth, his wife" (Find A Grave: Memorial #126476791)