. Alabama Baptist State Convention Annual Reports 1913 . nd having organized a church and erected a new building atVineland. W. V. VICE. Born in Pickens County, Ala., October 13, 1848. Was ordainedMay 31, 1885. Married to Miss M. C. Norris, September 29, 1870. 62 ALABAMA BAPTLST STATE CONVENTION. Died at Nicholsville, Ala., September 11, 1913, leaving a widow and eightchildren. His ministerial life was spent largely in Marengo and ClarkeCounties, where few men have excelled him in service to the churches,about thirty of which he was pastor at different times. GEO. W. WILDER. Born in Blount Cou


. Alabama Baptist State Convention Annual Reports 1913 . nd having organized a church and erected a new building atVineland. W. V. VICE. Born in Pickens County, Ala., October 13, 1848. Was ordainedMay 31, 1885. Married to Miss M. C. Norris, September 29, 1870. 62 ALABAMA BAPTLST STATE CONVENTION. Died at Nicholsville, Ala., September 11, 1913, leaving a widow and eightchildren. His ministerial life was spent largely in Marengo and ClarkeCounties, where few men have excelled him in service to the churches,about thirty of which he was pastor at different times. GEO. W. WILDER. Born in Blount County, Ala., May 2, 1870. , He was converted andjoined the M. E. Church South, at Lees Chapel, Blount Co., September, joined the Missionary Baptists, in August 1902. He was ordainedJuly 26, 1908, having preached four years. He was married twice, first,to a Miss Foster, October 4, 1888, who bore him two children, and toMiss Olive Geeters April 26, 1896, who bore him five children. He diedOctober 25, 1912, honored and respected by all who knew REV. JOHN NEWTON PRESTRIDGE, D. D. BORN IN ALABAMA. FEBRUARY 5. 1853DIED IN KENTUCKY, OCTOBER 29. 1913 JOHN N. PRESTRIDGE.(See Item 62). October 29, 1913, there fell in sleep in Louisville, Ky., an honoredson of Alabama. Rev. John Newton Prestridge, , was born in Ala-bama, February 5, 1853. He studied in Howard College and the SouthernBaptist Theological Seminary. Although his active ministry was largelyoutside the State much of his work brought him in close contact withBaptist affairs in Alabama. As editor of the Baptist World, he performeda service for all Baptists everywhere. With a genius for making a Baptistnewspaper seldom found in any man, he used his gifts in an effort tobring to pass his motto: Christ for the World, The World for Christ. ALABAMA BAPTIST SlATE CONVENTION. 63 Another notable work of Dr. Prestridge was in connection with theformation of the Baptist WorW Alliance, the success of which was largely(liK- t


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