The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-20
.DR: DAVID SULL|NS,
 AGED MINISTER, IS | CALLED ID REWARD
Father of Mrs. George R. Stuart to Be Buried in Chattanooga-Was Dis
 tinguished Educator

Dr. David Sullins. founder and for years president of sullins college at Bris- tol, Tenn. died early Tuesday morning
 at the parsonage of the First Methodist church, Nineteenth street and Sixth
 avenue, north.
 Dr. Sullns was 91 years of age. He was native of Tennessee and was prob
 ably one of the oldest and best known
 ministers of the Methodist faith being
 the oldest living member of the Halston conference.
 He was a chaplain in the Confederate army and bore the distinction of being the next oldest surviving minister of the lost cause. sse nad served 70 years as Methodist preacher.
 The deceased recently came to Bir-
 mingham to reside with his daughter, Mrs. George R. Stuart, wife of Dr. Stu art pastor of the First Methodist church. He was an author of promi- hence, having written much of the his tory of Methodism in the south He was prominent in educational as well as re- | ligious work.
 l The remains will be sent to Chattanoo- 1 ga for interment today. Dr. Stuart and his family accompanying them. BORN IN TENNESSEE l pr. Sullins was born two miles west ! Of Athens in McMInn county in July 1 1927. His ancestors were of Scitch- | Irish descent, coming in the early days to settle in the United States His 1 father, Nathan Sulllns, married Miss
 Rebecca Mitchell. daughter of Rev. Nor
 ris Mitchell, a pioneer local preacher oi l the Methodist church.
 | aft fat
 brought his wife to live on the little | island at the mouth of the Little Ten. nessee river. On the Little Tennessee seven of his brothers and sisters were born. His father purchased 160 acres ol land near Athens from the state and lthere settled. Soon afterwards Dr. Sul- 1 lins was born.
 | On May 3, 1855, Dr. Sullins was mar | ried to Ann Rebecca Blair, daughter of John Blair, who for F years repre- sented the First district in Congress. He was elected to the presidency of Elm ory and Henry college. where he had graduated just 3o years before While I here his eldest daughter was married to Rev. George R. Stuart who graduated at the institution. During his period of presidency at the college some of the present most famous Methodist preach CTS in the south were educated under his guidance.
 FOUNDED COLLEGE pr Sullins, his brother Rev. Timothy Sullins, IA years his senior, and Rev George R. Stuart, D. D., founded the Centenary college, which opened Septem-
 Der IS. 1885, with Dr. David Sullins as president He remained president for
 many years
 It can be truly said of him that he was the pioneer Christian educator in eastern Tennessee He was known and respected as. scholar. as a remarkably successful educator and as an incompara-
 ble orator. The grand old man of Hol- ston Methodism will not soon be forgot ten by those who knew him and by those who were educated under his guid- ing wisdom. Hundreds of East Tennes- seeans are weeping today when they re- member his faithful services to the land which he loved and labored to make bet ter. Thousands of East Tennesseeans have answered their Fathers call to glory, but none have left behind them a cleaner record of manhood and a more fervent desire to do good to the end that the Kingdom might "be established on earth as it is in heaven"