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    Feb . lly at Gelligron , in the county of Glamorgan , Mrs . Mary Bees Bey an , having- on the second of the same month completed her hundreth year , and retained to the last all her intellectual powers unimpaired . She was first , married to the '

    eminently pious and reverend Owen Rees , who was for some time minister of ^ vvhat was then , the Presbyterian Congregation , of Pentie-ty-gwyn , near Llandovery , in Caermarthenshire , out afterwards removed to ^ berdarej in Glam organshire , and continued to officiate to the Presbyterian Congregation of that place jintil his death in

    the spring of 1767 . 3 Of the issue of this marriage only one son survived the period of infancy : this was the Rev . Josiah Rees , of Gelligron , who died in September 1804 , * after officiating to the Presbyterian Congregation of Gel lion lien , for upwards of forty years , having statedly supplied them during the last two years of his academical course at Caermarthen . He was the father

    of Mr . Owen Rees , of the house of Longman and Co . Paternoster-Row , Mr . Josiah Rees , late of Malta , the Rev . Thomas Rees , of St . Thomas ' s , &c . &c . C Some years after the decease of her first husband , Mrs . Rees married Mr . Rees

    Bevan , a respectable surgeon , who resided in the village of AberdareJ whom she survived about twenty years . Her neighbours bad been so long accustomed to call her Mrs . Rees , that they could not bring themselves to address her by the name of her second husband , except occasionally ; and she continued to be so designated so very generally , that it has been thought almost necessarv to insert above both her

    names , in order to identify her to her acquaintance . On the decease of her second husband , having no relations residing in her neighbourhood , and being then about eighty years of age , her son , with the view of having her under his own care , and providing the more effectually for the comfort of her declining years , prevailed upon her to remoye to his own residence at

    Gelligron , where , she remained to the time Q fjier death . IMrs . Bevan ' s maiden name was Howell . Her father was a highly respectable yeoman , residing between Neaih and Swansea , on a tenement which had been cultivated by his ancestors through many generations . The family were strict and zealous

    Presbyterians ; j and in the civil contentions which agitated the kingdom in the middle of the seventeenth century , and wherein the county of ' Glamorgan very largely participated , Ithey took a decided part with the Parliament and the Protector $ and after the settlement of the latter at the ¦ " 1 -- ¦ - ij-ij-t- ... vt . - .-n- --ur-u - . - rii m mini Y- — < : - . ¦¦* !¦ ' - - - --- *• - ' f * See the Universal Theological Magazine , X 804 , Vol H . fp . 228 .

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    head of the government , received from him some testimonies of hi 8 gratitude for the assistance they had rendered to his cause . From these ancestors she inherited a spirit of independence , and a love of freedom , especially in respect to religious

    matters , which she retained in fall vigour to the close of her life . ~ J This spirit and temper , the connexion in which she was placed , and the society with-which she most intimately mingled after her first marriage and for the long interval of eighty years , tended to cherish and confirm . Mr .

    Owen Rees was no less distinguished by his attachment to religious liberty and the sacred rights of conscience , than he was by his unaffected piety and the amiable virtues of his private life . And her son , in this , as in other respects , trod in the

    footsteps of his father , whom he lost at an early age , but whose memory he cherished with the warmest affection and respect . In the time of her first husband , their hospitable dwelling was the frequent resort of that constellation of eminent Christian

    ministers in the Presbyterian connexion , who were then the great supporters of the cause , and whose praise is still in all the churches . That age beheld a Bavies , a

    Perrott , a Samuel Thomas and a Jenkins at Caermarthen ; a David Lloyd * in Cardiganshire ; a Philips at Coed-y-Cymmer 5 a Samuel Da vies at Merthyr ; a Williams at Watford and Cardiff ; and a Solomon Harries at Swansea : —all of them men

    whose names are associated with every quality that can command for them the admiration and esteem of every friend to religious freedom , rational piety and exemplary virtue . To these eminent persons

    succeeded a generation imbued with the same enlightened principles , and with tKe same catholic spirit—some uf whom yet survive , as pillars and ornaments of the church .

    £ * In early life , Mrs , Bevan had embraced the Arminian sentiments of her husband ;~ - ~ and Atminianism was esteemed the great heresy of that day . With him she relinquished the doctrine of the Trinity , of hereditary depravity , of vicarious atonement and satisfaction , and embraced tenets ,

    which may perhaps be called Arian . These , with some unimportant variations , . she retained till she was eighty years of ageD After lier removal to Gelligron , f having then no establishment « if her own , f . w - ^^ V v ¦ » « m Aq ^ ^ — ^^ —— — - — - - — — — «

    nor any other secular cares to occupy her attention , she devoted herself to reading , with all the eagerness and ardour of youth . Her favourite volume was the Bible , of which she read some portion every day ; and with the contents of which she was so familiarly acquainted , that she could at any * The father of Dr . Charles tloyd , of London . ¦

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 143, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/63/