Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....Kimbell, Rev. John T. June 1899 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 October 11, 2007, 8:22 pm Jackson Argus -Wk of June 9, 1899 At 1 o’clock P.M. last Monday Rev. John T. Kimbell, the oldest and one of the most beloved ministers of this county, died at his home near Jenkinsburg. He had been confined to his room for a few months from a partial stroke of paralysis, during which time he was visited by hundreds of those who have heard him preach, and it is said that he preached Christ Jesus the Savior to all of his callers and was greatly used of the Lord on his death bed. It was a most fitting close for a long life in the ministry. “Uncle John,” as he was familiarly known, was eighty five years old and had been actively engaged in the ministry for more than fifty years. He had been pastor of Towaliga church for thirty seven years. He was loved by all who knew him during all these years, and in his death our section loses one of its most godly men. Though the worker has fallen asleep, the work goes on. The funeral was preached last Tuesday by Rev. J. A. Jackson in the presence of a host of dear friends who had come together from all parts of the county to pay a last tribute of respect to a most splendid earthen vessel Jackson Argus – Butts County Week of June 9, 1899 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/obits/k/kimbell8169gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb