Obituary of Jones Roark 01 Nov 1867 Hall County, GA

Death and Obituary Notices from the "Southern Christian Advocate"  
Issue of November 1, 1867: Tribute of Respect by Quarterly Conference 
of the Gainesville Circuit, N. Georgia Conference, to Jones W. Roark.

The Southern Christian Advocate was the official publication for the 
Methodist Conferences in the state of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.

TRIBUTE OF RESPECT
Brother Jones W. Roark joined the M. E. Church in early life, and gave 
his youth and manhood to the cause of his Master.

His Brethren, confiding in his piety and ability, gave him license to 
preach while quite young, and as a local preacher he served the Church 
faithfully until his death.  He was a child of affliction, having lost the 
use of his right are in infancy, yet by his industry he provided for a 
large family of children, six of whom are now acceptable members of the 
M. E. Church.  By his integrity as a citizen, his piety and zeal as a 
minister, and by his tenderness and devotion to his family, he had the 
entire confidence of his neighbors and was emphatically a useful man - 
a brother whose memory we delight to honor, and in the happy 
triumph of whose death we love to rejoice.  Therefore,

Resolved,
1. That in his death the Gainesville Circuit has lost a useful local 
minister and a beloved brother.

2. That we resign ourselves to this dispensation of an Allwise 
Providence which has taken from our midst in the 53d year of his age 
and in the midst of his usefulness a brother so much beloved.

[Resolutions of condolence and respecting publication.]

					W. T. Caldwell, Ch'n Com.


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