Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-10-12
DEATH OF DIR. BALDWIN.

We are grleved to announce the death
Of the Rev Samuel Davies Baldwin, ID.
d., pastor Of the McKendree Church of
this city, which took place at a quarter
past eight clock last night His strug-
gle for life was somewhat protracted, and
his mortal existence has hung upon q
thread for several days past. Such good
nursing and such devoted attention on
the part of physicians and relatives and
friends, we have rarely ever witnessed.
If human exertions or human love could
have saved man, the deceased would
have been spared to his church, the com
munity and the world.
The Rev. DIR. Baldwin was born at
Worthington, Ohio, on the 24th of No
vember, 1918, but when a boy, left home,
and earned his living by hard labor for
several years, after which he entered
Woodward College, at Cincinnati. He
graduated with the Rev. DR.. Huston,
Hon. G. H. Pendleton, Hon. George E.
Pugh and others. After his profession
of religion he was remarkable for his ar
dent piety- and his love of the Holy Scrip
lures He entered the ministry in Ken
lucky, but few years after came to Ten
nessee, which was in the year lS4S, and
married, the same year, Miss Sallie
Moorman, daughter of Chas Moorman,
ESQ, of this vicinity He was transfer
red to the Tennessee Conference, and
was placed at the head of Soule Female
College at Murfreesboro, which became
one Of the first institutions in the State
while under his control.
DR.. Baldwin filled, first and last,
nearly all of the prominent stations of
the Conference, and no man occupied a
more exalted position in the Methodist
Episcopal Church South. He was
greatly beloved in other denominations,
as well as his own. He took charge of
McKendree Church in the autumn of
1851, and continued faithful to his charge
to the day of his death.
He wrote work entitled "Armeged-
don, or the United States in Prophecy" !"
whilst at Murfreesboro, which was fol-
lowed by work written here, called
Dominion. He had just finished a
work, as a sequel to the two others, or
an elimination of the prophetic writings,
to prove the overthrow of monarchy, and
the establishment of Christian Democra-
cy. 1t will be splendidly illustrated,
and those who have seen the manuscript
pronounce it the most brilliant effort of
his life. He expressed desire, before
his death, that the proceeds of his work
should go to the support and education
Of his children He explained all of his
wishes on the subject to his faithful and
devoted brother-in-law, j. O. Griffith,
Esq.
The degree Of ID. d. was conferred
upon the deceased by the Wesleyan Uni
yersity, at Florence, Ala.
He was an enthusiastic Mason, and
was bright and shining light in the
order
A recent precious season of revival in
DIR. Baldwin's church called forth his
most active energies, and he labored
faithfully day and night in the cause.
During the meeting. the cholera broke
out here, and the deceased was active
and prompt and efficient in waiting upon
the poor and afflicted. He literally went
about doing good, and at last fell
martyr to the cause of benevolence and
fidelity to the poor. We shall not at
tempt any panegyric to his memory.
He needs none. He lives in the hearts
of grateful people, and will ever be
held in perpetual remembrance by our
entire community His last hours were
calm and placid and he has gone to his
reward on high He saw the sweet fields
of Eden before him, and myriads OF
angels beckoning him onward to the
/" evergreen shores" He died happily
in the Lord
The deceased leaves six orphan chill
dren, who will need the kindness and
care which we feel assured will be ex-
tended to them by the denomination of
which he was so distinguished light
His wife, after years Of suffering and
bodily pain, preceded him to the upper
and better kingdom
The funeral of DIR. Baldwin will take
place at the McKendree Church, at nine
o'clock tomorrow morning. He viii be
buried with Masonic honOrs, at the
family burying ground, five miles north
Of the city.-Ndshrille Dispatch.