Rev. George Poole was simple-minded, honest-hearted and affectionate.

Although his life and labors for neary thirty years have been before the reader, yet we will honor him by reproducing his short Conference obituary:-

"George Poole was born in Gory, County of Wexford, Ireland. He died in Brantford, September 11, 1853, in the fifty-fourth year of his age. Rev. Poole was converted to God and became a member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church at eighteen years of age.

In 1827 he was admitted a candidate for the holy ministry. Full of faith and zeal, he declined no labor and recoiled from no self-denial by which he might promote the cause of God and fulfil the mission assigned him in the Church of God.

He deemed it his highest happiness to be in 'labors more abundant,' insomuch that when the Providence of God, by most painful affliction, laid him aside from the effective minisrty, he was often heard to exclaim, 'That word superannuated presses like a leaden weight upon my heart; I cannot endure to think of it.'

During the last seven years before his death his life was a scene of extreme and almost uninterupted suffering. But amidst all he was eminently supported by the power of grace. His latest hours were especially characterized by calm respose and holy joy in the God of his salvation.

In life men beheld in him a true and constant friend, an earnest and deeply-fervent Christian, and a faithful and useful minister. In death they saw him borne up as by the vision of God, in expectation of the 'crown of life' and a home in heaven."

...from the minutes of the 1854 Wesleyan Methodist Conference in Toronto C.W.

1825 Methodist Episcopal missionary. With new settlements in Upper Canada, which had not hitherto been supplied with the word of life, were this year visited by the Rev. George Poole, as a missionary; these formed the Richmond mission; and Mr. Poole succeeded in procuring twelve preaching places, and two hundred Church members were returned on the Minutes for the next year.

Charges: ordained in 1827, 1830 Albion, 1835 Hallowell (Prince Edward Co.), 1837-1839 Cavan (Durham), 1839 Peterborough, 1845 Brantford (Brant Co.), 1851 Brantford (retired)