Obituaries and Memoirs

JOHN STONE DAVIS 1815-1885   John Stone Davis, the son of John and Mill Davis, was born in Giles County, Tenn., March 27, 1815. He was converted at a camp meeting at Cornersville, Tenn., August 24, 1829; joined ...

R. M. CROWSON 1814-1885   R. M. Crowson, the son of Richard and Sarah Crowson, was born in Madison County, Ala., Dec. 20, 1814, died of dropsy in Sparta, Bienville Parish, La., April 19, 1885. He was converted ...

BAXTER CLEGG 1811-1884   Baxter Clegg was born November 11, 1811. He was a native of Chatham County, North Carolina, and belonged to one of its largest and most honorable families. He was educated at ...

WILLIAM E. DOTY 1809-1884   William E. Doty was born in Maury County, Tennessee, in the spring of 1809 or 1810. He was early trained by Christian parents, and his early impressions were never lost. In 1826, at a ...

JOEL SAUNDERS 1814-1883   Rev. Joel Saunders was born in Concordia parish, La., January 26, 1814, was converted on the night of November 1, 1828, and on the day thereafter joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, ...

J. LANE BORDEN 1845-1883   This beloved Brother was born in Newberne, Green County, Alabama in 1845, of highly respectable parentage. When a little boy he was converted under the ministry of Rev. F. J. Grace, who...

WM. D. STAYTON 1826-1883   Rev. Wm. D. Stayton was born in Washington—now Marion--County, Ky., April 1st, 1826; married to Miss Francis H. Ashley July 6th, 1847; converted in August, 1848; licensed to preach in ...

PHILO M. GOODWYN 1820-1882   Philo M. Goodwyn was born in 1820, November 24, in the State of Indiana, near New Albany. He moved to the South in 1837; was converted and joined the Poydras Street Church in the year...

HENRY C. THWETT, D.D. 1805-1881   The Rev. Henry C. Thweatt, D.D., war born April 12, 1805, in Halifax Co., Va., and died in DeSoto Parish, La., October 15, 1881, aged 76 years, 6 months and 3 days. His mother ...

JOHN C. REID - 1881   Rev. John C. Reid, having passed away on the 25th of last May, it becomes our sad duty to chronicle the fact in the midst of our proceedings. The following are the statistics of his ...

THOMAS HALL JONES 1859-1880   Thomas Hall Jones was born in Montgomery, Alabama, September 12, 1859. He came with his parents to New Orleans in 1861 and was mainly educated in the public schools of the city. He ...

JOHN W. POINTER 1839-1880   John W. Pointer was born in Missouri in the year 1839; the precise locality of his birth is unknown to the committee. His father having died before his majority, he being the oldest ...

GEORGE WASHINGTON - Oct. 25, 1880   George Washington died on the 25th of October 1880..For many years he was an effective and honored minister of the Louisiana Conference. Wherever he went he was known only to be...

JAMES MADISON VANCE 1816 - May 1879   James Madison Vance was in the city of Nashville, Tenn. A. D. 1816. He came to the city of New Orleans when ten years old, He was in the ministry for forty years and was among...

JAMES E. COBB - 1879   The Reverend James E. Cobb, late Presiding Elder of Delhi District, died at the residence of Col. T. C. Standifer, of Trenton, Louisiana, Monday, April 18, 1879. He was taken down sick and ...

SAMUEL HENRY SCHROEDER 1846-1879   Samuel Henry Schroeder was born in the City of New Orleans, Dec. 5, 1846. His father, Henry, and his mother, Martha Elizabeth Schroeder, were godly people, walking like ...

TIFF FOSTER 1850-1878   Rev. Tiff Foster was born in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, in 1850, and died with Yellow Fever in New Orleans, October 23, 1878, aged twenty-eight years. He spent his boyhood days on his ...

PHILIP H. MOSS 1849-1878   Rev. Philip H. Moss was born Sept. 17, 1849, in Lexington, Oglethorpe County, Georgia. He received a good education from his father, Prof. Thos. B. Moss of Meson Academy, a prominent ...

JOHN WILKINSON 1834-1875   John Wilkinson was born in Parsonstown, Kings County, Ireland, August 17, 1834, and died in Baton Rouge, La., April 7, 1875. He was blessed with pious parents, and trained up in the ...

JOSEPH D. ADAMS Dec. 26, 1820 - July 26, 1873   JOSEPH D. ADAMS was born, in Williamsburg District, S. C., Dec. 26, 1820. He joined the Church July 19, 1831; professed religion at a camp-mooting Sept. 24, 1837. ...