Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-06-17
Death Of Rev. DIR. E. W. SehOn.
Courier-Journal Sth.

Rev. DR.. E. w. Sehorn, one of the
oldest, most widely known ministers OF
the Southern division of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, died at the residence
of his son-in-law, Col. Ell. M. Wright,
No. 1876 Fifth street, few minutes
after ten 10 o'clock last night. DIR.
Sehon's health has been failing for the
last three months, and his life has been
uncertain for some time on account of
trouble of the heart.
A few days ago he was attacked by
paralysis, and since the illness struck
him has never uttered word. His
life was despaired of by his physician
and friends, and his death came as an
event not unlocked for. He died with
a smile upon his countenance, and IL
Illustrated very forcibly in his death the
religious principles he iuculcated DUR
ing his life.
DIR. Sebon was Virginian, though
he has lived in his native State very
little. He was born in Moorefeld,
Hardy county, of that State, on the
14th of April. 1903, and was therefore
at the time of his death in his sixty
ninth year.
He commenced preaching in the
year 1927, and would, had he been per-
mitted to live, have celebrated his semi
centennial as a minister next year.
The first circuit to which he was as
signed was that known as the Pitts
burg circuit, where he remained four
or five years. Only last year DIR. S.
revisited the field of his early ministry
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1882 he was removed to Cincinnati. In
the following year he was married to
Miss Caroline A. McLain, who as Mrs.
Sehon, survives him. She was the
daughter of the Hon. William McLain,
of Cincinnati, brother of the late Judge
McLain, of the Supreme bench. In
1874 he was sent from Ohio as dele
gate to the General Conference which
met in New York, and which is memoir
able as the conference at which the
division OF the church took place, and
AT which the Northern and Southern
divisions of the NJ. E. Church were
created. DIR. Sehon took quite prom
inent part in the heated debate of the
session and, though an Ohio delegate,
he voted straightforward with the
Southern ulNLSiOui anu WucH lAto Ilm6
of the split came cast his fortunes with
the Church South, of which he has
since been a prominent, liberal and
efficient member.
In the year 1847, DIR. Sehon removed
to Louisville, and, ever since, this city
has really been his headquarters
After coming here he took charge of
the old Fourth street Methodist church,
which then occupied the site now
covered by the New York store. After
his connection here was severed he
became missionary secretary of the
Church South, position which he oc-
cupied for twenty years, to the very
material advancement of the mission
ary interests of his church. During
the war he was stationed at Nashville,
where he suffered considerable priva-
lions on account of his political pre-
ferences. Though he never delivered
a partisan sermon in his life, he had
his private belief, and did not hesitate
to express it when occasion demanded
such expression. After the war he re-
sided short while in Baltimore, but
returned to Louisville in 1868, where
he has since resided. He was, during
the four years, from 1871 to 1875, pre-
siding elder of the Louisville district.
where his time expired by limitation,
when he was rendered the same posi-
ton in the Bowling Green district,
which position he was filling at the
time of his death.