Bathrick, Stephen

Bathrick, Stephen a Free-will Baptist minister, was born in Cayuga Coanty, N. Y., May 10, 1810. He was converted at nineteen, commenced preaching in 1832, and was ordained Sept. 23, 1833, pastor of the North Parma Church. For nine years he was pastor of this Church, at the same time performing pastoral work in the Church at Byron. He removed to Conneaut, O., about the year 1842. Subsequently he labored in New York and New England, and for a short time was in Michigan. Twenty years of his life were spent in central New York, with the exception of the brief period alluded to in Michigan. His last settlement was at Frankfort, Ill., where he died suddenly, Sept. 28, 1880. See Morning Star, Dec. 29, 1880. (J. C. S.)