OBITS: LAY, Elder Michael Sr. - 14 Dec 1879 - Whitley Co, KY
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 19:54:29 -0400
Submitted by: Gloria Manning Perkins <suparsons@InfoAve.Net>

The following obituary is from the 1880 Minutes of the West Union
Association of United Baptists. This is the only obituary in the 1880
minutes. Hope it will be of interest.

Elder MICHAEL LAY, Sr. was born December the 25th 1823 and died December
14th, 1879.  He made a profession of faith in Christ about the year
1859; entered the ministry the fourth Saturday of July, 1861, and was a
consistent member of the United Baptist Church at Union Church for about
twenty years.  He was ever ready to follow after the Savior in the path
of duty, and a great and efficient teacher of others to do likewise, and
his Christian character was such as those knowing him should try to
emulate.  He died of gastro-enteritis, after a lingering and painful
illness of about nine months, when he passed away in the full triumph of
faith.  Such was his life and his death that we feel assured his spirit
is with the Savior, and that his body will come up in the first
resurrection.  As a neighbor, he was unsurpassed in benevolence; as a
husband and father, he was kind; as a minister, he was a true teacher
and defender of the doctrine of Christ and the Baptist faith.  In his
death Union Church lost her most able teacher; West Union Association
her most efficient Moderator and instructor.  All should mourn his loss,
and the bereaved wife, children, and relatives have our sympathy; but
our great loss is his eternal gain.
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