The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-02-01
VETERAN OF
METH 0 DIST
CHURCH DIES
DR.. A. c. DINWiDDlE ANSWERS
FINAL CALL Of ETERNITY
LAST NIGHT AT HOME.
FIFTY YEARS AS PREACHER
Held Many of the Leading Stations in
Tennessee and Missouri-Was One
of Gods Noblemen and Strong
Christian Character.

One of Gods noblemen answered
the final call of eternity last night
when DR.. Alexander Green Dinwiddie
passed quietly from this life after an
illness that had confined him for sew
eral weeks to his home on School
street. He was sanity character
and truly beloved by thousands OF
men, women and children who had
come in contact with him during his
more than fifty years of Christian
ministrations. From the day that he
became a minister of the gospel as a
Circuit rider" until his declining days
he led an active and consecrated ca
reer.
The end came at 1870 O'Clock Mon
day night, and Tennessee Methodism
lost one of its best known ministers
The funeral services will be conduct
ed from the residence Thursday after
noon at O'Clock by Dr. w d. Hag
gard, assisted by Dr. E B Chapel Of
Nashville. The interment win follow
at Rose Hill cemetery with the follow
4 ing pall-bearers:
Honorary-W. P. Boyd, w. D. Cam
eron, John B. Ashton, r. H. Williams,
H. l.. Hendley, G. T. Hughes, Sr j
H. Dining, T. N Figuers, ST., J. A.
Gilbreath, Seth Warfield, r. S. Hop
lIins, r. P. Dodson and w. P. Void
ridge.
Active-W. F. Anderson, E. P. Turn
er, Geo. E. McKennon, u. H. Foster,
T. N. Figuers, Jr, R. J. Harlan, C. A.
Parker and j. C. VOORHEES,. Carriages
from Cakes & Nichols.
Something of the services of DR..
Dinwiddie is indicated by the follow
ing sketch of his life in the Southern
Methodist Handbook. =" tl1@
Alexander Green Dinwiddle. Son
of Rev William Dinwiddie and Mary
IitAlexahder) aDinwidlie, He was Born
July IL, 1870, in Montgomery COUNTY
Tehn!,t and his bbyho6d days were
Fspent ON HIS fathers farm, in M6ht
gomery county. His opportunities for
I'edutati6h were very oneagfe, attend
ing as Ia boy the 'd6untry Schools and
for nearly two SESSIONS wasf a Stu
tfdent at Asbhiy,, Tenti.,i untfer Prof
FL. E. Duke, a graduate of tfie tniver"
sf4g Of North Carolina. He Supple
I'mented the work Of the Schools by dill
ligent study and sectred asueh educa
tiona1o equipment as gave him rank
with many Who had far better advatit
ages He organized the aculleoka
| (Tenn.) Institute and was its principal
for two years, after which it was
merged into Webb Brothers School
He was converted in 1857 at Williams
Chapel, Montgomery county, Tenn,
and in May, 1857, was licensed to
preach. In October, 1859, he was adj
mitted on trial by the Tennessee Con-
ference, and his first appointment was
as junior preacher on Wesley Circuit
Other appointments We're: Junior
Preacher, Dover circuit, 1S60-61;
! Stevenson and Bellefonte circuit, 1861
I62; Santa Fe Circuit, 1885, Duck
River Circuit, 1860; Culleoka Insti-
tute, 1S69-70; Savannah District, 1870
IA; Pulaski Station, 1S74-78; Cedar
/ Hill, 1859; Lebanon Station, 1879
/ 50; Murfreesboro Station, 1SS2-S5;
Shelbyville Station, 1SS5-S7; Grams
4 ferred to the Missouri Conference)
Boonville Mo-, Station, 1896; Ne
vada Station, 1868; Westport, Kan
sas City, 1S9S-1900 Olive Street, Kan
sas City, 10000; (retnrned to Ten
nessee Conference) South Columbia,
1904-O6; First Church, Columbia, 1906
/ TO- Since 1910, when he completed
fifty years of intinerant service, he
has been on the superannuate list.
On November 10, 1861, he was mar
ried to Miss Racel Odil of Columbia,
Tenn There were five children born
to them"
DR.. Dinwiddie entered the Confed-
crate army as a chaplain at the out
break of the Civil War but served
only few months before suffering an
attack of measles and scarlet fever
from which he did not recover for
some time. He then resumed the min
istry.
Two of DR. Dinwiddie's daughters,
Mrs ]. C. Warner of st. Joseph Mo-
and Mrs. Charles Minteer of Kansas
City, are here. His only surviving
son, VIII H. Dinwiddie of st. Louis is
expected to arrive tonight. Another
daughter. Mrs. ]. H. Carpenter, is in
California.