Obituary:  David L. Stephenson, 5 February 1886 - Smith County, TX

Contributed by Vicki Betts <vbetts@gower.net>
8 January 2003

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TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, June 17, 1886, p. 7, c. 3

STEPHENSON.—David L. Stephenson, the subject of this notice, a son of 
James and Nancy Stephenson, was born Jan. 21, 1834, in Blount county, 
Ala.; came to Texas with his parents about the year 1847, and in or 
about the year 1858 professed religion and joined the M. E. Church, 
South, at Ebel, on this—Starrville—circuit, where he lived a devoted 
member for near twenty-six years. I knew him well, and the whole of 
his Christian life. When I was class-leader I held class-meeting 
with him, when I was an exhorter I held meetings regularly at his 
church, when I was a local preacher I kept an appointment at his 
church, since I have been traveling I have been his pastor four 
years, so I think I knew him well. I have seen him happy, heard him 
shout aloud the praise of God, but he is gone. On the 5th of 
February, 1886, at his sister's, in Tarrant county, he passed away. 
The last words he uttered were: "I am going to heaven." May God bless 
his aged mother, brothers and sister, and help them meet him in heaven.

C. H. Smith.
June 2.