OBITUARY: Thomas Fluellen, 13 Nov 1889 - Smith County, TX Submitted by Vicki Betts 6 December 2002 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************** TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, February 18, 1890, p. 7, c. 3 REV. THOS. FLUELLEN. Rev. Thos. Fluellen was born in Warren county, Georgia, March 29, 1799, and died at the home of his son, Joseph Fluellen, Nov. 13, 1889. The days of the years of his pilgrimage were ninety years seven months and fourteen days. Five generations followed him to the family graveyard where they laid his body to rest. He was converted at the age of eighteen and joined the M. E. Church, South, of which he was a useful member for nearly seventy-four years. He was licensed to preach in 1838, and was a faithful preacher as long as his voice would allow. He said to me one day: "I never preached from a text that I did not select while on my knees at prayer." A sister who survives him writes: "How inspiring and full of genuine religion were his sermons and exhortations in the pulpit and around the altar. And his songs, so clear and musical, still l inger in my ears." He knew Bishop Capers and Bishop Pierce and his sainted father while at the maximum of their pulpit power. His last days were spent in reflections on the glorious revival scenes in old Georgia. No doubt God was with this man. His last days were attended with great physical suffering, which at times impaired his mind. His son, Joseph, and his noble, Christian wife, nursed as tenderly as a babe and wept when he was gone. He is among us no longer, but has gone to join those old heroes of the cross with whom he fought side by side more than half a century past. May the hand that guided him guide the bereaved loved ones safely to his side. W. H. CRAWFORD.