Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cheatham, Henry Clay May 2, 1902
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Public Ledger, Sat., May 3, 1902 pg. 4pg. 4

 
Cheatham-At the residence, No. 305 South Park Avenue, on Friday, May 2, 1902, 
at 11 o’clock p.m., Rev. Henry Clay Cheatham, in the 67th year of his age.
Funeral services from the Cumberland Street M.E. Church Sunday afternoon at 
3:30 o’clock. Friends of the family are invited to attend.
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Public Ledger, Sat., May 3, pg. 1
 
Rev. H.C. Cheatham, pastor of the Huntersville Methodist Church, died last 
night at 11 o’clock at his home, No. 305 South Park Avenue, after several days’ 
illness, in the 69th year of his age. He is survived by a widow and six 
children, several of whom reside here. Mr. Cheatham was one of the best known 
Methodist divines in Virginia, having been an itinerant member of the Virginia 
Conference for many years. He was formerly pastor of the Cumberland Street 
Methodist Church, this city. He was an able preacher and was one of the best 
controversialist in the Virginia Conference. The funeral services will take 
place from the Cumberland Street Methodist Church tomorrow afternoon at 3:30.
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Virginian Pilot, Sun., May 4, 1902 pg. 2
 
Rev. H.C. Cheatham
His Funeral Will Take Place from Cumberland Street Methodist Church This 
Afternoon and Will be Attended by All the Methodist Ministers in This City and 
Section
 
The death of the Rev. H.C. Cheatham at his home, in Brambleton ward, Friday 
night, remove from the active ranks of the Methodist Itinerary in the Virginia 
Conference M.E. Church South, one of the ablest, and most fearless and 
consecrated ministers. While he has filled some of the most important station 
in the bounds of the conference, he has also served on some of the hardest and 
most difficult circuits. He was truly a Wesleyan Methodist and never sought 
positions of ease in the conference, always going to whatever ap0pointment he 
was assigned by the bishop of the church, and faithfully performing the 
function of his office as a minister of Jesus Christ. In preaching the Gospel 
he never failed to declare the whole counsel of God. In the pulpit he was 
master of a compact, vivid and piercing eloquence. In denouncing vice the face 
of brass would quail before his hot and plunging shot. As a controversialist he 
was considered a match for the keenest scimitar in the land. During the latter 
years of Mr. Cheatham’s life his health became much impaired, but he would 
never allow himself to be place on the superannuated list of the conference, 
preferring to remain in the active work of his sacred and holy calling until 
called by Master of Assemblies to enter upon his triumphant reward in the 
skies. He fell at his post with his full armor on and without a tremor.  After 
forty-five years of almost unremitting toil in the kingdom of grace he goes to 
receive his crown. 
The funeral will be solemnized from Cumberland Street Methodist Church, of 
which he was pastor over thirty-six years ago, at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon, 
and will be attended by all the Methodist ministers in this city and section, 
who will bear testimony to his holy life and faithful work as a watchman on the 
walls of Zion. 
Mr. Cheatham’s last appointment was Huntersville Church, which has sustained a 
severe loss in the death of its pastor. 

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