having come, under his guidance, from bush-arbor appointments to strong and influential churches. The resolutions spoke of him as eloquent in the pulpit, gifted in prayer, kind and sympathetic in pastoral labors, one who bound his people to him by love.

On Monday, April 1, 1912, about seven in the evening, at his home near South Quay, Nansemond County, in the seventy-second year of his age, after a week's illness, he passed from the scenes of earth to his heavenly reward. The funeral took place the following Wednesday afternoon at South Quay Church, being conducted by Rev. J. L. McCutcheon, of Franklin, who was assisted by several pastors of other denominations. The body was laid to rest beside that of his wife, who preceded him to the grave some twenty years. His brother and sister, Mr. Mack Jones and Mrs. Gary Beale, survive him, and also seven of his children, namely: Mrs. Hugh Lawrence, Mr. J. Paul Jones, Mrs. Randall Rawls, Mrs. Percy Vaughan, Mr. Philip Jones, Mr. William Jones, and Mrs. J. M. Robertson.

JOHN ROBERT WILKINSON

1842-1912

Not many miles from Richmond City is Dover Mines, Goochland County. At this place John Robert Wilkinson was born June 21, 1842, his parents being Hezekiah and Mary Ford Wilkinson. From the best primary schools of his native county he passed to the Huguenot High School, hoping next to go to Washington College, now Washington and Lee University, but in this his hopes were shattered by the War. From March, 1862, when he enlisted, until the end of the conflict, he remained in the ranks. After the surrender, having taken up farming, on August 24, 1865, at Goochland (Nuckols') Church, under the preaching of Rev. A. E. Dickinson, he professed faith in Christ and was baptized into the fellowship of Dover Church by Rev. A. B. Smith. Before long he was licensed to preach, but it was not until after his removal from Powhatan and until four years after his marriage, on January 19, 1870, to Miss Adah Winfree, a daughter of Rev. Dr. D. B. Winfree, that he decided to give himself to the gospel ministry. Jerusalem Church, Chesterfield County, where he was ordained, November 29, 1874, the presbytery consisting of the ministers D. B. Winfree, W. S. Bland, J. R. Bagby, R. W. Cridlin, and L. W. Moore, was his first charge. His work as a preacher was, in the main, with churches, first in the Middle District, and then in the Dover, Association. On July 4, 1903, he organized, in Louisa County, the Mineral Church, and in November, 1906, he dedicated the imposing meeting-house that this congregation. under his leadership, had erected. This

church, which at its organization had twenty-one members, reports now an enrollment of one hundred and fiftyseven. During the whole course of his ministry he served, besides those already named, the following churches: Skinquarter, Tomahawk, Berea, Hopeful, Mt. Olivet, Ashland, Winns, Mt. Gilead, Branch's, Arbor, and Deep Run.

After a long and painful illness, on April 9, 1912, he passed away. The funeral was conducted by Rev. Dr. J. B. Hutson, who was assisted by other ministers, and the body was laid to rest near the Mineral Church. His second wife, who was, before her marriage, Miss Emily F. Bowles, of Hanover County, and three children survive him. Rev. T. A. Hall, in his obituary in the Minutes of the General Association, says of him: "There was a bewitching charm about his striking personality that won all persons with whom he came in contact. An ingenuous suavity of spirit, a whole-hearted friendship, a stainless life, and a spotless character, combined with signal spiritual vivacity, great love for Jesus Christ and for lost souls, together with lofty purposes in living and in doing, constituted the prominent characteristics of his noble life and his exalted attainments."

PATRICK THOMAS WARREN

1839-1912

On the walls of the Onancock Baptist Church are tablets to the memory of Rev. Patrick Warren and his wife, Elizabeth Ann Scott Warren. One of the children of this pious couple was Rev. Patrick T. Warren. In him the name Patrick had come down to the third generation, for his grandfather, a godly Baptist deacon, had borne this name. On November 4, 1839, in Northampton County, Patrick Warren III, as he might well be called, first saw the light. Through the private schools and by the help of his uncle, Mr. Lewis Warren, he was prepared for his college work, which was done at William and Mary and Richmond College. In 1861, at the Onancock Baptist Church, he was ordained, the presbytery being composed of Elders Patrick Warren, George Bradford, and S. C. Boston. This young man, the same year as his ordination, served as a supply for the Lower Northampton Church, and, in 1862, became her pastor. This good man's ministry, which began thus in Virginia, and was to come to its close on the soil of the Old Dominion, gave many of its years to work in other States. In these years away from Virginia he was pastor at Salisbury, Cumberland, Longwood, and twice at Vienna, all in Maryland at Mobile and Eufaula, Alabama; and at Watsontown, Pennsylvania. In 1885 he was once more back in his native State, his field at this time lying in the territory of the Portsmouth and Concord Associations; during these years he ministered to the Fountain's Creek, James Square, Hicksford, and Zion Churches. From 1890 to 1897 he was pastor at Williamsburg, Va. Upon

leaving Williamsburg he moved to Pamplin City, which was his home until the end of his life. During a part of this period he was pastor of these churches, in the James River and Appomattox Associations: Liberty Chapel, New Hope, Mathews, and Rocks. He was deeply interested, not only in the life of his own churches, but in the prosperity and growth of all the churches of his Associations. He was moderator of the Appomattox Association and the preacher of the sermon when this body celebrated its centennial. During his life in Appomattox a Pastors' Conference was organized, and he was made its president. For some years before the end of his life he gave up active pastoral work, but up to the close of 1911 he continued to respond to all requests for occasional or supply sermons, whether they came from Baptists or from other denominations. A few weeks before his death he was paralyzed, and this event making him realize that death was near at hand, he "set his house in order," even giving directions for his burial. At ten o'clock Friday morning, May 31, 1912, surrounded by his family, he passed away. His body was laid to rest in the cemetery of the Liberty Baptist Church, Appomattox, the services being conducted by Rev. C. R. Norris, Rev. Dr. H. C. Smith, and Rev. Dr. W. J. Shipman. The wife, whose married life had extended over some forty-four years, and who, before her marriage, was Miss Mary A. Price (daughter of Dr. William R. and Susan Denmead Price), of Baltimore County, Maryland, survived her husband, with her three daughters, Mary Houston, Hannah Denmead, and Odelle Austin (Mrs. Milledge L. Bonham), and one son, Luther Rice Warren.

Patrick Thomas Warren was a man remarkable for his courtesy, for his systematic habits, for his painstaking care as to little things. He was always scrupulously neat