Dale-Geneva County AlArchives Obituaries.....Smith, J. J. March 6, 1955
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“Signs of the Times” Primitive Baptist Periodical, January 1956 Issue

J. J. SMITH – Dale Co. / Geneva Co, Ala.
	Elder [church elder/minister] J. J. Smith was born in Dale Co., Ala., on Jan.
30, 1876, and married Julia Gray early in life.  To this union were born five
sons: Bennie, Lee, Howard, Aaron, and Lehman; and three daughters: Mattie,
Sarah, and Alma – who were most dear to their parents.
	Both were members of Ephesus Church, Slocomb, Ala., at the times of their
deaths and were ever faithful to its tenets.  Sister Smith was called to her
heavenly home on Dec. 15, 1947 and was greatly mourned by her husband and children.
	Elder Smith united with Consolation Church, Coffee Co., Ala., in early youth
and immediately took an active interest in the church.  He began serving as a
messenger to the associations in 1892.  He was soon burdened with the duties of
the ministry and fled from it.  The Lord ever completes His work, so in a
distant state Elder Smith was ordained – in Desoto Parish, La., by Elders D. W.
Stanley, C. Thomason, W. C. Foshee, and Clerk C. C. Owens, at Cool Springs
Church in October 1908.
	He was soon called to serve churches and was a conscientious pastor and a great
experimental minister of the gospel.  Among the churches he served were Mt.
Carmel, Goshen, Mt. Moriah, Bethlehem, Mt. Gilead, Ephesus, and New Hope – ever
watching over them for good and living an exemplary life.  He was a great
believer in the resurrection and scarcely ever closed a sermon without referring
to this fundamental principle.
	He died Mar. 6, 1955, and funeral services were conducted at his home church,
Ephesus, by Elders F. A. Collins, J. J. Collins, E. R. Sorrels, and Mr. I. P.
Davis, with interment at Pleasant Hill Cemetery.  Truly a great minister of the
Primitive Baptist faith has gone to be ever with the Lord.  (Elder) J. J. Collins
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Additional Comments:
Note:  In the same issue of “Signs,” Elder J. J. Collins had an article in which
he referred to the death of Elder J. J. Smith at age 88 and said he had been an
active member in the church for about 65 years, serving as minister for about 50
years. - A.F.Kelley


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