Peter Cartwright, D.D. Obit
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Death of Rev. Peter Cartwright.
---------- The venerable Peter Cartwright, D.D., a well known Methodist
minister for seventy years past, died yesterday at his home, near Pleasant
Plains, Sangamon county, Illinois, in the 87th years of his age. He was
born September 1, 1785, in Amherst county, Virginia. His father was a
Revolutionary soldier and after the war removed with his family and settled
in Lincoln county, Ky. In 1793, he removed to the Green River country, in
Logan county, one mile from the Tennessee line. Peter was a wild boy, but
in 1801, when in his sixteenth year, he was converted. He began to exhort
sinners to repentance in this wild and unsettled country, and was called
"The Kentucky Boy." In 1806, he was ordained Deacon by Bishop Asbury. In
1808 he was ordained Elder. In 1812, he became a member of the Tennessee
Conference. In November, 1812, he was elected Presiding Elder, and held the
office for many years. He spent eight years in the old Western Conference,
and fifty five years in the Illinois Conference. In 1869, the Illinois
Conference held a jubilee in his honor, and shortly after he was appointed
Conference Missionary, in the discharge of the duties which he has since
been engaged, together with the delivery of lectures in various parts of
the country. He was married August 18, 1808, in Barron county, Ky., and
lived with his wife in happiness sixty-four years. In 1871 he had living
seven children, fifty grand-children, thirty-seven great-grand- children
and seven great great grandsons. He filled a number of important trusts,
during his connection with the ministry with ability. He was a man of
indomitable energy, and an earnest worker in the Methodist Episcopal
Church. He received 10,000 persons into the church, baptized 8,000 children
and 4,000 adults, preached 500 funeral and 14,600 other sermons. He was
opposed to any change in the rules of the church; especially did he oppose
the lay delegation. He lived to see the church grow from seventy-five
thousand, when he joined it, to a million and a quarter, and the wild
country in which he labored become wealthy and thickly settled. His style
of preaching was eccentric but forcible; as a man, he was a perfect
gentleman, ever polite, graceful and dignified. His name has become
imperishable--connected in the memories of many thousnads of the members of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.

The Huntington Argus, Huntington, W. Va., October 5, 1872

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