Noble
Rev. John S. Noble
Rev. John S. Noble, of Pilot Point, Texas, died May 25, 1886. He was born May 27, 1813. Licensed to exhort by George W. Taylor, in Kentucky, June 1, 1843, and to preach, by the same person, in 1844. Ordained both deacon and elder in 1848. In the same year he entered the Indian Territory as a missionary, and taught the Choctaw Academy, near Doaksville, five years. At this time Rev. John Carr was preacher in charge and Doaksville the seat of government. Bro. Noble then came to Texas and and acted in the sphere of local preacher until his death. He preached his last sermon in January 1886. Soon after, paralysis gave him evidence that his work on earth was about finished. He sent for the writer to make arrangement concerning his funeral. He was found to be perfectly rational, and could get about as usual, except every day or two there would come n him spells of great physical prostration and mental unconsciousness that lasted for several hours. He was perfectly serene. he had a sufficiency of this world's goods, but it was all in order as well as his soul. Bro. Noble was not idler in the ministry; for twenty years of his life he preached four sermons a week. He was a good preacher, earnest and fervent. His mantle, just before his death, fell on one of his sons. Another was the valedictorian at the late closing exercises of the Medical Department of Vanderbilt University. Wm. Allen, Rock Hill, Texas.
Rev. John S. Noble, of Pilot Point, Texas, died May 25, 1886. He was born May 27, 1813. Licensed to exhort by George W. Taylor, in Kentucky, June 1, 1843, and to preach, by the same person, in 1844. Ordained both deacon and elder in 1848. In the same year he entered the Indian Territory as a missionary, and taught the Choctaw Academy, near Doaksville, five years. At this time Rev. John Carr was preacher in charge and Doaksville the seat of government. Bro. Noble then came to Texas and and acted in the sphere of local preacher until his death. He preached his last sermon in January 1886. Soon after, paralysis gave him evidence that his work on earth was about finished. He sent for the writer to make arrangement concerning his funeral. He was found to be perfectly rational, and could get about as usual, except every day or two there would come n him spells of great physical prostration and mental unconsciousness that lasted for several hours. He was perfectly serene. he had a sufficiency of this world's goods, but it was all in order as well as his soul. Bro. Noble was not idler in the ministry; for twenty years of his life he preached four sermons a week. He was a good preacher, earnest and fervent. His mantle, just before his death, fell on one of his sons. Another was the valedictorian at the late closing exercises of the Medical Department of Vanderbilt University. Wm. Allen, Rock Hill, Texas.
