Rev. Fossey Tackaberry, Ire. 1796-1847
TACKABERRY, FOSSEY (1796-1847, Irish preacher, was born in the County of Wexford.He was converted in 1815 under the preaching of Andrew Taylor, one of the General Missionaried sent into south-east Ireland by the Irish Conference.Even as a local preacher, still with farming as his livelihood, Fossey Tackaberry was more like an itinerant in his work of spreading the Gospel message.So he offered for the ministry and was accepted as a candidate in 1822.He then gave himself fully to preaching, in which he excelled, and had a wide circuit ministry covering all the main centers in Ireland.So much was he beloved of the people that Conference sent him to the Belfast North Circuit in 1843 and there he healed disputes and misunderstandings that had occurred among Methodists in that city.His last circuit was Sligo, to which he was appointed in 1846 in the midst of the baneful effects of the Irish Famine.He threw himself wholeheartedly into the relief of distress, never forgetting the preaching of the Gospel as well.He rescued an orphan boy of ten years of age, after the death of the only surviving relative to care for him, an elder brother of fourteen.From this boy whom he rescued, Fossey Tackaberry caught typhus fever, and within a month was dead. (Information taken from ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD METHODISM,ed. by Nolan B. Harmon. Nashville, TN: United Methodist Publishing House,1974)
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