Clinton-Mercer County KyArchives Biographies.....Sewell, William . - June 30, 1881
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Source: A History of Kentucky Baptists, From 1769 to 1885
Author: J. H. Spencer

WILLIAM D. SEWELL has been one of the most highly esteemed and useful preachers ever

raised up in this old fraternity. In his recent death, the body has sustained a 
great loss. He was not only a good preacher, but was, also, a wise and prudent 
counselor. Mr. Sewell was born in East Tennessee, July 14, 1797. Moving westward in

youth, he located, for a time, in what is now Clinton county, Kentucky. Here he 
professed conversion, and united with Clear Fork church, of which Isaac Denton was 
pastor, in 1820. Moving his membership to Sulphur Church, in Cumberland county, he 
was licensed to preach, in 1830, and ordained, in 1835. About this time he took 
membership in Mt. Zion church in Overton county, Tennessee, of which he was chosen 
pastor. To this church he ministered 46 years. He was a messenger to Stocktons 
Valley Association, almost every year, from 1828, to 1879, and was Moderator of the

body, with the exception of a few years, from 1838 to 1871, when he asked to be 
excused, on account of declining health. He died, June 30, 1881.

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