Note 43 — Chapter XXXVIII · GENERAL CONFERENCE—ASBURY’S FUNERAL, ETC.

There are many who supposed Mr. Asbury had made provision to give a Bible to all the children that should be named after him; and therefore, up to 1861, forty-five years after the bishop was in his grave, applications were made to the Book Room for Bibles by parents whose children were named Francis Asbury.