Taliaferro-Warren County GaArchives Obituaries.....Rhodes, John D. October 16, 1878
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Warrenton Clipper, Thursday,  April 17, 1879
In Memoriam

Rev. John D. Rhodes, son of John Rhodes, Esq. of Taliaferro County, Ga. was 
born on the 18th of March 1856 and died on the 16th of October 1878. From 
early youth he displayed a great amiability of disposition; and while quite 
young gave his attention to the subject of religion. On the 12th of August 
1872 he was baptized by the Rev LRL Jennings into the fellowship of the 
Crawfordville Baptist Church. Shortly thereafter, he having professed a desire 
to labor in the work of the ministry, was encouraged by his brethren and 
authorized by his church, to exercise his gifts with a view of fitting himself 
for greater usefulness; it was his purpose to pursue a course of study in our 
Theological Seminary, but his failing health compelled him to forego. He 
labored, however, with all the zeal and earnestness that his increasing 
feebleness would permit, and though his life was short it was filled with good 
works. Having married Miss Sallie E. Pilcher, of Warren Co., he settled in the 
neighborhood of Elim, to which church he transferred his membership and 
preached for them one sabbath in each month, till too feeble to render the 
service. His suffering was long and sometimes severe, but he bore with that 
all that firm faith and patient resignation which deprives death of its 
terrors. His surviving widow and the little boy who God gave him, his parents 
and a large host of relatives, have abundant reasons furnished by his life and 
death to sorrow not as those who have no hope. "Blessed are the dead which die 
in the Lord." 


Additional Comments:
John D. Rhodes was the son of John Rhodes Jr. and Cornelia Mildred Gunn of 
Taliaferro County. John D. Rhodes and Sallie Pilcher had a son named James 
Pilcher Rhodes. 

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