JAMES G. PIRTLE.
James G. Pirtle was born near Water Valley, Graves County, Kentucky, May 4, 1824, and died October 11, 1883. He professed religion at Mobley's Camp Ground in 1840; was licensed to preach in 1851; was ordained deacon by Bishop Kavanaugh in 1855; was ordained elder by Bishop Andrew at Memphis in 1859 and received on trial in the Memphis Conference, at Paducah, in 1866. He was born, reared, converted, licensed to preach, spent the greater part of his life, and died in Graves County, Kentucky. It was here he was most extensively known and invariably loved. He served the Church as local preacher for fifteen years, during which time he was distinguished for his fidelity and great usefulness. About this period his country demanded his services. Responsive to her call, he marched into her service a company of brave and noble men, as the commanding officer. Though controlled by other obligations, subjected to many irregularities, and pressed by new and severe duties as a soldier he was not unmindful of his greater commission to preach Jesus Christ and him crucified. He was active in scattering the seeds of life upon the field of death.
Returning from the scenes of strife and blood with a christian character untarnished by constant contact with army excesses, he gave himself more fully to tile work of the Master. As an itinerant minister, his record is with the Church. For seventeen years his work embraced a number of circuits in Kentucky and Tennessee. Without educational advantages, or any special help, he went to his several fields of labor, au earnest and unpretentious preacher, trusting to the Holy Ghost to endow him with wisdom and invest him with power in winning souls to Christ. In this he was not disappointed. His ministry was not only acceptable, but unusually successful. He was great--not in the common acceptation of that word--but in the eye of his Master and brethren, because he
faithfully served.
His life was marked with good results. On his whole pathway he has left the memorials of his pure christian example-his.laborious and self-sacrificing toil, his care for the sick and afflicted, his general kindness and affability to all, his love of souls his good sermons, his earnest exhortations, his powerful prayers, which are now speaking, and will long speak for him, though dead.
· J.A. Heard
Transcribed from the original text by Rev. Russell N. Gallimore, a retired pastor in the Memphis Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, on the 14th day of October, 2002. Note: I left the word "Christian" uncapitalized, just as it was in the original obituary, and I left the period after the title, as in the original. The Annual Conference in which his death was memorialized was held at Union City, Tennessee, the week of December 12-17, 1883.
Obituary above is from the 1883 Conference JOURNAL, an annual publication by the Memphis Annual Conference. The Conference Archives are located in the Luther L. Gobbel Library of Lambuth University, Jackson, TN.
James G. Pirtle was born near Water Valley, Graves County, Kentucky, May 4, 1824, and died October 11, 1883. He professed religion at Mobley's Camp Ground in 1840; was licensed to preach in 1851; was ordained deacon by Bishop Kavanaugh in 1855; was ordained elder by Bishop Andrew at Memphis in 1859 and received on trial in the Memphis Conference, at Paducah, in 1866. He was born, reared, converted, licensed to preach, spent the greater part of his life, and died in Graves County, Kentucky. It was here he was most extensively known and invariably loved. He served the Church as local preacher for fifteen years, during which time he was distinguished for his fidelity and great usefulness. About this period his country demanded his services. Responsive to her call, he marched into her service a company of brave and noble men, as the commanding officer. Though controlled by other obligations, subjected to many irregularities, and pressed by new and severe duties as a soldier he was not unmindful of his greater commission to preach Jesus Christ and him crucified. He was active in scattering the seeds of life upon the field of death.
Returning from the scenes of strife and blood with a christian character untarnished by constant contact with army excesses, he gave himself more fully to tile work of the Master. As an itinerant minister, his record is with the Church. For seventeen years his work embraced a number of circuits in Kentucky and Tennessee. Without educational advantages, or any special help, he went to his several fields of labor, au earnest and unpretentious preacher, trusting to the Holy Ghost to endow him with wisdom and invest him with power in winning souls to Christ. In this he was not disappointed. His ministry was not only acceptable, but unusually successful. He was great--not in the common acceptation of that word--but in the eye of his Master and brethren, because he
faithfully served.
His life was marked with good results. On his whole pathway he has left the memorials of his pure christian example-his.laborious and self-sacrificing toil, his care for the sick and afflicted, his general kindness and affability to all, his love of souls his good sermons, his earnest exhortations, his powerful prayers, which are now speaking, and will long speak for him, though dead.
· J.A. Heard
Transcribed from the original text by Rev. Russell N. Gallimore, a retired pastor in the Memphis Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, on the 14th day of October, 2002. Note: I left the word "Christian" uncapitalized, just as it was in the original obituary, and I left the period after the title, as in the original. The Annual Conference in which his death was memorialized was held at Union City, Tennessee, the week of December 12-17, 1883.
Obituary above is from the 1883 Conference JOURNAL, an annual publication by the Memphis Annual Conference. The Conference Archives are located in the Luther L. Gobbel Library of Lambuth University, Jackson, TN.
JAMES G. PIRTLE.
James G. Pirtle was born near Water Valley, Graves County, Kentucky, May 4, 1824, and died October 11, 1883. He professed religion at Mobley's Camp Ground in 1840; was licensed to preach in 1851; was ordained deacon by Bishop Kavanaugh in 1855; was ordained elder by Bishop Andrew at Memphis in 1859 and received on trial in the Memphis Conference, at Paducah, in 1866. He was born, reared, converted, licensed to preach, spent the greater part of his life, and died in Graves County, Kentucky. It was here he was most extensively known and invariably loved. He served the Church as local preacher for fifteen years, during which time he was distinguished for his fidelity and great usefulness. About this period his country demanded his services. Responsive to her call, he marched into her service a company of brave and noble men, as the commanding officer. Though controlled by other obligations, subjected to many irregularities, and pressed by new and severe duties as a soldier he was not unmindful of his greater commission to preach Jesus Christ and him crucified. He was active in scattering the seeds of life upon the field of death.
Returning from the scenes of strife and blood with a christian character untarnished by constant contact with army excesses, he gave himself more fully to tile work of the Master. As an itinerant minister, his record is with the Church. For seventeen years his work embraced a number of circuits in Kentucky and Tennessee. Without educational advantages, or any special help, he went to his several fields of labor, au earnest and unpretentious preacher, trusting to the Holy Ghost to endow him with wisdom and invest him with power in winning souls to Christ. In this he was not disappointed. His ministry was not only acceptable, but unusually successful. He was great--not in the common acceptation of that word--but in the eye of his Master and brethren, because he
faithfully served.
His life was marked with good results. On his whole pathway he has left the memorials of his pure christian example-his.laborious and self-sacrificing toil, his care for the sick and afflicted, his general kindness and affability to all, his love of souls his good sermons, his earnest exhortations, his powerful prayers, which are now speaking, and will long speak for him, though dead.
· J.A. Heard
Transcribed from the original text by Rev. Russell N. Gallimore, a retired pastor in the Memphis Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, on the 14th day of October, 2002. Note: I left the word "Christian" uncapitalized, just as it was in the original obituary, and I left the period after the title, as in the original. The Annual Conference in which his death was memorialized was held at Union City, Tennessee, the week of December 12-17, 1883.
Obituary above is from the 1883 Conference JOURNAL, an annual publication by the Memphis Annual Conference. The Conference Archives are located in the Luther L. Gobbel Library of Lambuth University, Jackson, TN.
James G. Pirtle was born near Water Valley, Graves County, Kentucky, May 4, 1824, and died October 11, 1883. He professed religion at Mobley's Camp Ground in 1840; was licensed to preach in 1851; was ordained deacon by Bishop Kavanaugh in 1855; was ordained elder by Bishop Andrew at Memphis in 1859 and received on trial in the Memphis Conference, at Paducah, in 1866. He was born, reared, converted, licensed to preach, spent the greater part of his life, and died in Graves County, Kentucky. It was here he was most extensively known and invariably loved. He served the Church as local preacher for fifteen years, during which time he was distinguished for his fidelity and great usefulness. About this period his country demanded his services. Responsive to her call, he marched into her service a company of brave and noble men, as the commanding officer. Though controlled by other obligations, subjected to many irregularities, and pressed by new and severe duties as a soldier he was not unmindful of his greater commission to preach Jesus Christ and him crucified. He was active in scattering the seeds of life upon the field of death.
Returning from the scenes of strife and blood with a christian character untarnished by constant contact with army excesses, he gave himself more fully to tile work of the Master. As an itinerant minister, his record is with the Church. For seventeen years his work embraced a number of circuits in Kentucky and Tennessee. Without educational advantages, or any special help, he went to his several fields of labor, au earnest and unpretentious preacher, trusting to the Holy Ghost to endow him with wisdom and invest him with power in winning souls to Christ. In this he was not disappointed. His ministry was not only acceptable, but unusually successful. He was great--not in the common acceptation of that word--but in the eye of his Master and brethren, because he
faithfully served.
His life was marked with good results. On his whole pathway he has left the memorials of his pure christian example-his.laborious and self-sacrificing toil, his care for the sick and afflicted, his general kindness and affability to all, his love of souls his good sermons, his earnest exhortations, his powerful prayers, which are now speaking, and will long speak for him, though dead.
· J.A. Heard
Transcribed from the original text by Rev. Russell N. Gallimore, a retired pastor in the Memphis Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, on the 14th day of October, 2002. Note: I left the word "Christian" uncapitalized, just as it was in the original obituary, and I left the period after the title, as in the original. The Annual Conference in which his death was memorialized was held at Union City, Tennessee, the week of December 12-17, 1883.
Obituary above is from the 1883 Conference JOURNAL, an annual publication by the Memphis Annual Conference. The Conference Archives are located in the Luther L. Gobbel Library of Lambuth University, Jackson, TN.
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