General Notes

Custom Field:<_FA#> Mason Emblem on headstone@@S726784@@Date of Import: Jul 31, 2003
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"On the 4th, there were four deacons elected to serve Sardis church, as
follows:  Simon Russell, Jack Pitts, Thomas Russell, and Hill Wood.  They
were to have been ordained last Sunday, but the preachers expected did
not come, therefore the ordination did not take place.  There were more
people present that day than has been at the church since the Zion
Association met there in 1892." Researched by Laura Leigh Elmore
John Simon Russell's obituary, From Newspaper Article dated May 2, 1919
"Mr. John Russell Dead
On last Tuesday afternoon John Russell, of Pigeon Creek, died at his
home, following a stroke of paralysis which struck him on the 24th of
April.  Mr. Russell was 70 years of age, had lived in that neighborhood
practically all his life.  He reared a large family of children, most of
them living in the same community.  It is said that with children and
grand children there were between 75 and 100.  He was a member of Sardis
Church, and a Mason of long standing.  He was buried Wednesday with
Masonic Honors.  He leaves a widow with whom he has been living about
half a century.  Mr. Russell was a prominent man in this community and
did not appear to be as old as he was.  Only a few weeks ago, he lost one
of his sons." Researched by Laura Leigh Elmore