Obituary: Rhoda R. Gill, 15 Feb 1999 - Smith County, TX Contributed by Vicki Betts 11 January 2003 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************************** TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, March 30, 1899, p. 14, c. 3 GILL.—Sister Rhoda R. Gill (nee Ponder) was born in North Alabama, March 20, 1828; moved to Mississippi in the winter of 1847, and was married to Bro. J. J. Gill July, 1854. They came to Smith County, Texas, December, 1886. Sister Gill was converted and joined the Methodist Church in early life, and on coming to Texas brought her Church letter with her and joined the Church at Starrville, in Smith County, Texas, and afterwards transferred to old Center Church, eight miles north of Tyler, where all the Christian graces adorned her modest life until death called her from labor to reward, which was caused by heart failure amid the sufferings of la grippe, February 15, 1899. Truly, Sister Gill was a model Christian. While we were her pastor for three years it was our privilege often to visit Bro. and Sister Gill and Miss Sallie Ponder, her sister, who lived with them, and truly it was a blessing to hear her talk of the triumphs of a living faith in Christ and her hopes of eternal life beyond the grave. So blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. T. B. VINSON. Ben Wheeler, Texas.