Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-10-18
PEACEFULLY AND QUIETLY THE
NOTED EVANGELIST PASSED
AWAY.
.DIEDIN MASTER'SW0Rk
En- Route from Oklahoma City to
Gainesville, Ga, to Celebrate
6sth Anniversary with
Family Reunion.

Little Rock, Ark.-Rev. Sam p.
Jones, the famous evangelist, died on
Rock Island train No. 4, eastbound.
at Perry, Ark, presumably of neart
failure.
The evangelist was en- route home
to celebrate the seth anniversary of
his birth with a family reunion. He
retired in the best of health and spir.
it's. He arose feeling fine and talked
with members Of his party for some
time regarding plans for the future
and of the most successful meeting in
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Shortly after he spoke of feeling bad
and his daughter brought him hot
water and he apparently recovered.
Then he %relapsed and in a short time
it was apparent that he was very i'll
and all possible was done to relieve
him.
Wnen Perry was reached, reclining
in the arms of his co-worker, Rev.
Walt Holcomb, and, surrounded by
three members of his immediate fam
lily he peacefully and quietly passed
away, as If falling into a refreshing
sleep. Death was due to heart failure.
Mrs Jones, his wife, and Mrs. An
ME Pyron and Miss Julia Jones, his
daughter, were with him at the time
of death.
The body was brought to Little
Rock, where it was prepared for bur-
ial. Mrs. Jones will continue east, &C.
companying the body.
Rev. Mr.. Holcomb went to Memphis
to make arrangements for a special
train to convey the body to Carriers
vile, Ga, where burial will occur.
Rev. George Stuart, an old-time as
sociate; Rev. Walt Holcomb and Rev.
J. A. Bowen, of Mississippi, will CON
duct the services. Rev. e. o. Excel,
the noted singer, will render old-time
~favorites of the noted evangelist.
Evangelist Jones died, as he often
said he desired to, in the harness,
working for the Master whom ne
served for IS years.
Sam Jones' Career.
Samuel Porter Jones, the most ia.
nous evangelist Of his time, was born
in Chambers county, Alabama, Oct. 16,
1847. He was the son of Capt. John
J. and Jennie porter Jones.
When he was IL years old he was
removed to Gainesville, Ga, where he
was educated under private tutors and
at boarding schools.
After the civil war ne studied law,
was admitted to the bar in 1869, and
began to practice his profession with
bright hopes of success, but his in.
temperate habits ruined his health
and terminated his career as a law.
yer.
After the death of his father in 1872,
he reformed and, having professed re.
ligion, became a clergyman of the
Methodist Episcopal church, south.
He had various charges in the north
Georgia conference during 1920. and
for the following IL years served as
agent for the Decatur orphans home,
which he helped to establish.
Mr.. Jones devoted a great deal OF
his time to ~evangelistic work over
the country. Since 1892 he had held
remarkably successful revival meet.
ings in most of the larger cities of the
United States, lecturing in the sum.
mer months from the platforms of the
leading chautauqua assemblies.
Sam Jones was famed for his pun.
gent wit, d~rollery and fearlessness OF
expression. No speaker of his time
was capable Of investing trite subjects
with such new meaning or of making
his addresses striking picturesque. His
sayings and %aphorisms, crisp and
pointed, were widely quoted and grew
to be household words.
AS a political campaigner, when he
chose to take the stump in the prose,
cution of a crusade or defense of a
principle, he was a most formidable
adversary, his biting rallies provoking
r%idicule, which proved most effective
in overcoming his opponents.