Licking-Belmont-Champaign County OhArchives Obituaries.....James Logan Gilbreath August 25 1880
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Newark Advocate 24 Sep 1880 page 3

IN MEMORIAM.
Rev. James Logan Gilbreath died at the residence of Mrs. Mary Chamberlin, 
Newark,  August 25th, 1880, aged 59 Years, 8 months, and 22 days.
He was the son of Rev. Robert, and Mary Gilbreath, and was born in 
Greensborough,  N. C., December 3d, 1820, and emigrated to Belmont county, 
Ohio, in December, 1830. He embraced religion when quite young and united with 
the Mt. Zion Ev. Lutheran church, Guernsey county, 0. He was licensed to 
preach by the East Ohio Synod of the Lutheran Church, at the meeting in  
Shawnesville, Tuscarawas county, May 1848. He married Louisa A. Gray, or 
Senecaville, O., in May 1851. He removed to Utica in 1855 and removed to his 
late home in Newark in the spring of 1861 and continued to preach in Newark 
for sixteen years; 
He resigned to accept a call to Vanadalia, Illinois charge where he remained 
four years but from failing health he resigned and removed to his late home on 
Elm Street and preached when he was able 2 years. In view of aiding his wife 
and daughter he consented to move to Urbana, He went to the Brandsville, W. Va 
charge and traveled on horseback and preached one year, after which he bade 
his friends farewell and came to his family in Urbana to die where he lingered 
for sixteen months. He and his family concluded to move to Newark about the 
fires of September prox, to live and die in the midst of his friends. As he 
was sinking rapidly he left Urbana and started for Newark in company with his 
only daughter and Rev. W. M. Gilbreath on the 24th of August. He was taken to 
the residence of Mrs. Chamberlain where he remained quietly and without pain 
until Aug 25, when he closed his eyes upon earthly objects.


Additional Comments:
Probably written by his brother Rev. William M Gilbreath.

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