Schley County GaArchives Obituaries.....Channell, J.E. August 31, 1939
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The Ellaville Sun  Friday September 1, 1939  No. 9
REV. CHANNELL LAID TO REST
The Rev. J.E. Channell, who entered the ministry at 37 and served churches of 
the South Georgia Methodist conference for 29 years before he was 
superannuated, died at his home here last Thursday night at 11 o'clock.  He 
was 68.  Death followed a serious illness of five days which had been preceded 
by a long period of failing health.

Tributes of ministers and laymen marked the funeral serviceconducted at the 
Methodist church Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock.  With the Rev. W.S. Johnson 
officiating , nine speakers made brief talks praising his worth as a minister 
and friend and testifying to the esteem with which he was held.  Speakers were 
the Rev. T. E. Davenport, Americus; The Rev. H.S. Brooks, Plains; the Rev. 
J.D. Smith, Reynolds; the Rev. J.W. Hitch, Montezuma; the Rev. T.J. Gilbert, 
Bronwood; the Rev. E.A. Martin, Butler; the Rev. R.C. Howard, Ellaville; the 
Rev. W.W. Whaley, Oglethorpe, and Charles C. Wall, Ellaville.

Born in Barbour county, Alabama, September 23, 1871, he was the son of Eugenia 
Conner Channell and James Turner Channell.  His paternal ancestors long had 
been prominent in the Methodist ministry in Alabama.  Moving to Cass county, 
Texas, when an infant, he was reared and educated there.

A story-book romance which began with a chance meeting in faraway Texas and 
culminated in the traditional happy ever after ending was responsible for his 
adoption of Ellaville as his home.  Miss Eva Rainey of Schley county 
accompanied her father to Dallas, Texas, for the United Confederate Veterans 
Reunion in April 1902.  Young Ed Channell went along with his father, too.  
And they met the afternoon before Miss Rainey returned home.

After two years of correspondence, he came here in 1904 for a visit at her 
home.  The courtship ripened during this visit and they exchanged letters for 
several more years.  He came here in January, 1908, and married her they same 
week on the 8th.  They made their home in Schley county.

At the quarterly conference at Hopewell church in July of that summer, the 
presiding elder made a vigorous appeal for his listeners to dedicate their 
lives to Christian service.  He followed the call with an invitation for 
anyone to consecrate his life to the ministry.  As the large congregation 
sung, "I'll Gow Where You Want Me To Go," he went down the aisle and accepted 
the invitation.

Supplying in the Ellaville charge for a month that summer, he was admitted to 
the conference that fall.  His pastorates included Faceville, Meigs, Cooledge, 
Hagen, Jeffersonville, Metcalf, Cusseta, Cobbtown, Chauncey and Abbeville.  He 
was superannuated at the conference in 1937 and came here to make his home.

Survivors include his widow; a daughter, Mrs. J.C. Webb, Montezuma; a brother, 
Col. R.J. Channell, El Paso, Texas; three sisters, Mrs. Anna Robertson, Mrs. 
A.J. Berry and Mrs. D.H. Rainey, all of Cass county, Texas.

Active pallbearers were Edgar Smith, Earl Carter, Charlie Dupree, Lasco Harvey 
and Norman Murray, all of Plains, and E.A. Martin of Butler.  Ministers of the 
Americus district of South Georgia conference formed an honorary escort.


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