“Nov 5- Admitted Dinah Freeman to full communion.” Scribbled in the margin, “She was a colored woman.”Peterborough minister Elijah Dunbar made this note in his church record for 1819. Two hundred years later, the Monadnock Center for History and.
Brave Collingham man who worked at Newark and Sherwood District Council loses his cancer battle
| Updated: 11:09, 17 December 2020
The family of a man who continued his studies for a masters degree, despite battling a brain tumour, have been told he passed Ââ weeks after his death.
Tom Swanâs wife Emma and his mother Angela described an amazing, brave and selfless person full of ambition, compassion and warmth.
He had married childhood sweetheart, Emma, just two months before his death.
Tom and Emma Swan on their wedding day.
Emma, a teacher at Loversâ Lane Primary School, Newark, said: âTom was such a positive, upbeat person and so determined to keep going and not let his tumour stop him from living his life, which is shown in his motivation to continue with his masters despite all the obstacles in his way.