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Name: SPARROW, Christopher R.
Nee: bro of David Sparrow
Birth Date: 9 Nov 1862 Bathurst, S. Africa
Death Date: 6 Sep 1935 Eldoret, railway and car accident
First Date: 1930
Profession: Farmer
Area: Box 101, Eldoret
Married: In Port Alfred, S. Africa 21 Feb 1888 Mahalah Reed b. 20 Oct 1861 Bathurst, Cape Colony, d. 18 Mar 1842 Bulawayo
Children: Melvyn Reed (23 Mar 1903 Bulawayo-8 Sep 1880); Audrey (d. 1922 S. Rhodesia)
Book Reference: Red 31, Hut
General Information:
Gazette - 24/1/1933 - Brand registered in quarter ending 31/12/1933 - Christopher Sparrow, PO Box 101, Eldoret, 1C
Gazette 31 Dec 1935 probate
FindaGrave Christopher Sparrow Birth 9 Nov 1862 South Africa Death 6 Sep 1935 (aged 72) Eldoret, Uasin Gishu, Kenya Burial Eldoret Cemetery Eldoret, Uasin Gishu, Kenya Memorial ID 204691984
Notes in FindaGrave: It was the sad task of the writer to lay to rest in the Eldoret Cemetery, Eldoret, Kenya Colony, our dear brother Chris Sparrow. He met his death as a result of a deplorable railway and car accident. He lay unconscious in the Eldoret Hospital for seven days, falling asleep in Jesus Sabbath evening, September 6, at the age of 72 years and 10 months.
The English church was loaned to us for the burial service. The very great respect in which he was held was manifest by the large body of mourners. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from Isa. 57:1; Job 14 : 12-14; Ezek. 37:11-14; 1 Cor. 15 : 51-58; Rev. 14 : 13.
At the time of his death he was our Sabbath school superintendent. He passed away a staunch believer in the Advent message which he embraced forty years ago. We laid him to rest in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life. -W. Cuthbert, Kenya Colony (Southern African Division Outlook, 15 Oct 1935)
The English church was loaned to us for the burial service. The very great respect in which he was held was manifest by the large body of mourners. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from Isa. 57:1; Job 14 : 12-14; Ezek. 37:11-14; 1 Cor. 15 : 51-58; Rev. 14 : 13.
At the time of his death he was our Sabbath school superintendent. He passed away a staunch believer in the Advent message which he embraced forty years ago. We laid him to rest in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life. -W. Cuthbert, Kenya Colony (Southern African Division Outlook, 15 Oct 1935)