PEPPER, WILLIAM ROGERS (1852-1932)

PEPPER, WILLIAM ROGERS, Methodist minister, Boiestown circuit, 1909-12; b. Ashfield, Suffolk Co., England, 20 May 1852, s/o Thomas Pepper and Maria Rogers; m. 1879, Florence Helen Hall, of St Stephen, N.B.; d. Saint John, 11 Mar 1932.

Soon after his arrival in Canada in 1875 William R. Pepper was received into the Methodist ministry on trial and assigned to preach in the newly-created mission of Derby. He served there for a year and was then transferred to the St Martins circuit. After his ordination in 1879 he ministered in more than a dozen rural communities in New Brunswick. He came to Boiestown from Sheffield in 1909. His last full-time assignment was at New Jerusalem, N.B. After supplying for a short time in Richibucto he retired in Saint John in 1925.

Pepper was survived in 1932 by his wife, Florence H. Hall, four sons, and four daughters. His son W. Rogers Pepper also became a Methodist minister but soon withdrew and entered the field of education.