Hopkins Co., TX - Obit - Daniel Thatcher Lake
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LAKE, DANIEL THATCHER - He was born in Tennessee July 2, 1828; was of
Presbyterian ancestry paternally and Methodist Maternally. Converted at the
age of twenty and united with M.E. Church South, was licensed to preach
October 27, 1855, the license bears the signature of J. N. Hamil, of the North
Texas Conference. Recommended to the annual conference October 5th, 1861. In
1876, he cast his lot with the Methodist Protestant Church, where he served as
circuit rider, secretary and president. In 1880 he located, on account of
feeble health, at Sulphur Bluff, Hopkins County, Texas, where he died December
7, 1891, and where his devoted companion and three children reside. Being left
an orphan at an early age, he learned in his early struggles of support and an
education, those lessons of self-denial that fitted him for usefulness in
after life. Beginning in public life as a school teacher in Mississippi in
1850, where he taught two years, when he came to Texas where he taught eight
years. In 1862, he entered the Confederate service, Paterson's company,
Whitfield's legion, where he served ten months. He and Miss Mary Griffis were
married Dec. 11, 1851, in Mississippi. She died in 1872, and her remains lie
six miles west of Canton, Texas. March 12, 1874, he married Miss Emma Jacobs,
the now bereaved widow. Burial was made in the Sulphur Bluff cemetery.