Paris News
Paris, Lamar County, Texas
Thurs. April 28, 1938
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PIONEER CIRCUIT RIDER DIES IN DALLAS HOSPITAL
DALLAS, (AP)--The Rev. J. F. Archer, 80, of Van Alstyne, pioneer Methodist circuit rider, died here in a hospital early Thursday.
He had been a patient in the hospital two years, a paralytic.
Of his 40 years as a minister, 32 were spent in North Texas. He organized the first Epworth league in Sherman in 1894.
Once he preached to a congregation of two.
"I rode 15 miles through bad weather and preached to a woman and her 12-year-old daughter," he recalled.
His first charge was 40 miles long, with nine appointments reaching into three counties.
Paris, Lamar County, Texas
Thurs. April 28, 1938
Pg. 2
PIONEER CIRCUIT RIDER DIES IN DALLAS HOSPITAL
DALLAS, (AP)--The Rev. J. F. Archer, 80, of Van Alstyne, pioneer Methodist circuit rider, died here in a hospital early Thursday.
He had been a patient in the hospital two years, a paralytic.
Of his 40 years as a minister, 32 were spent in North Texas. He organized the first Epworth league in Sherman in 1894.
Once he preached to a congregation of two.
"I rode 15 miles through bad weather and preached to a woman and her 12-year-old daughter," he recalled.
His first charge was 40 miles long, with nine appointments reaching into three counties.
Paris News
Paris, Lamar County, Texas
Thurs. April 28, 1938
Pg. 2
PIONEER CIRCUIT RIDER DIES IN DALLAS HOSPITAL
DALLAS, (AP)--The Rev. J. F. Archer, 80, of Van Alstyne, pioneer Methodist circuit rider, died here in a hospital early Thursday.
He had been a patient in the hospital two years, a paralytic.
Of his 40 years as a minister, 32 were spent in North Texas. He organized the first Epworth league in Sherman in 1894.
Once he preached to a congregation of two.
"I rode 15 miles through bad weather and preached to a woman and her 12-year-old daughter," he recalled.
His first charge was 40 miles long, with nine appointments reaching into three counties.
Paris, Lamar County, Texas
Thurs. April 28, 1938
Pg. 2
PIONEER CIRCUIT RIDER DIES IN DALLAS HOSPITAL
DALLAS, (AP)--The Rev. J. F. Archer, 80, of Van Alstyne, pioneer Methodist circuit rider, died here in a hospital early Thursday.
He had been a patient in the hospital two years, a paralytic.
Of his 40 years as a minister, 32 were spent in North Texas. He organized the first Epworth league in Sherman in 1894.
Once he preached to a congregation of two.
"I rode 15 miles through bad weather and preached to a woman and her 12-year-old daughter," he recalled.
His first charge was 40 miles long, with nine appointments reaching into three counties.
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