Newton County GaArchives News.....Rev. S. P. RICHARDSON December 27, 1892
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The Covington Star December 27, 1892
     From the Madisonian of last week we copy the following brief sketch of our 
friend and brother, who will soon make his home in this city:

     “Uncle” Simon Peter RICHARDSON goes to Covington another year. No more 
will his words of wisdom be heard in the Methodist Church of this city; no more 
will his pleasant face and cheerful voice greet us in our walks along the 
highways. Under the military laws of the M E Church South, the grand old 
warrior in the cause of the Master has been sent to meet the enemy at another 
point, and he goes to grapple with the cohorts of sin in the neighboring town 
of Covington. “Uncle Simon” is a remarkable man. He sprang from a well known 
family of South Carolina, and is a native of that State. When but a youth, he 
went to Florida, and soon enlisted in the service in which he is today engaged. 
He planted Methodism all over the Land of Flowers, from Cedar Keys to Key West, 
and from Jacksonville to Tampa’s Bay. His name is today a household word among 
the older citizens of that state. He has preached from Virginia to Louisiana, 
and was a great revivalist in his younger days. He is a veteran of two wars, 
and did a good service in both. His unique sayings and marked originality have 
ever characterized his sermons, and his intellect has given him prominence in 
every Conference of which he has been a member. He is today regarded as one of 
the ablest men in the North Georgia Conference.
     He came to Madison by his own quest; he goes to Covington by command of 
his Church. After a year of earnest labor among us, after having won his way 
into the hearts of all our people “Uncle Simon Peter” goes to work in another 
part of the Master’s vineyard. Our people, having known him but to love him, 
feel many pangs of regret at parting, and his memory will ever live in their 
minds, sacredly guarded from the encroachments of time. May his lot be ever 
cast in pleasant places, and may his latter days be his happiest and best.


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