Rev Thomas E. Martindale

Reverend Martindale was pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Dover, Delaware one of the many churches he served. He was described as being cultured, refined and an accomplished christian gentleman of the finest type. He was a cheerful and devotional spirit. There was combined in him the unusual: the strong preacher and the good pastor. While he joked with men, when he approached the Deity his language was chaste, pure and tender. He served as Chaplin of the Senate of Delaware. He also served as Trustee of Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA. He was minister of Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church in Salisbury, Maryland for many years.

During the Civil War Dr. Martindale served in the First Delaware Volunteers, United States Army, and spent some months as a Private, seeing actual hostilities. Later he became Chaplin of his Regiment. He was an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic.

On May 13, 1867 he married Anna M. Hazzard in Sussex County, Delaware. They had three children: Mrs. May Barratt Bryan, Camden, New Jersey, Lucinda, Boston, Massachusetts, who never married, and Ernest who died in Middletown, Delaware, April 14, 1879, six years old. His wife, Anna, who was a great helpmate died December 2, 1889.

On April 13, 1893 he married Sallie Ellen Woodcock 1865-1944. She was about the age of one of his daughters. She also was a great help to him in his work. His choice proved to be a very happy one, and she at once entered into his work, for which she was so well fitted. There is a small tombstone in the plot where his parents are buried with the following: Infant son of Reverend and Mrs. Thomas E. Martindale August 22, 1898. Rev. Martindale died of a heart attack while at home.

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