Rev Green A. Collier was born near the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, Feb. 25, 1819. His parents moved when he was quite young to Madison Co., Ala., where he was raised, educated, lived and died. He was carefully educated under the wise and successful training of Prof. George Anderson of Madison Co. . . . Few men were ever more successful as an educator . . ..He [Collier] professed religion and joined the Cumberland Presbyterian church at a campmeeting in Big Cove in 1833 and was happily married to Miss Hypasia A. Pickens, of that community, whose father was a ruling elder of the Mt. Pleasant congregation.
Rev Collier taught school 20 years in the neighborhood where he lived, and had preached eleven years at his death which occurred on the 18th of November, 1853 of typhoid fever. When conscious that his last moments had come, he said: "While there is not a dimming veil between me and heaven, yet I would love to live to preach more than I have done." He finally said, "Farewell, my dear wife of whom I never had a hard thought." Then calmly he fell asleep in Jesus leaving his wife and four children—two having gone before—to mourn their sad loss. Reverend N. J . Fox preached his funeral sermon and Rev. B. C. Chapman prayed the closing prayer. In the presence of a large and grief stricken people he was by gentle and loving hands laid away to rest in his own private graveyard "till Jesus comes."
His four children professed religion while young and lived consistent christian lives. His eldest son has been a ruling elder in the church for many years and now lives in Huntsville, Ala (in 1911).
Rev Collier taught school 20 years in the neighborhood where he lived, and had preached eleven years at his death which occurred on the 18th of November, 1853 of typhoid fever. When conscious that his last moments had come, he said: "While there is not a dimming veil between me and heaven, yet I would love to live to preach more than I have done." He finally said, "Farewell, my dear wife of whom I never had a hard thought." Then calmly he fell asleep in Jesus leaving his wife and four children—two having gone before—to mourn their sad loss. Reverend N. J . Fox preached his funeral sermon and Rev. B. C. Chapman prayed the closing prayer. In the presence of a large and grief stricken people he was by gentle and loving hands laid away to rest in his own private graveyard "till Jesus comes."
His four children professed religion while young and lived consistent christian lives. His eldest son has been a ruling elder in the church for many years and now lives in Huntsville, Ala (in 1911).
Rev Green A. Collier was born near the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, Feb. 25, 1819. His parents moved when he was quite young to Madison Co., Ala., where he was raised, educated, lived and died. He was carefully educated under the wise and successful training of Prof. George Anderson of Madison Co. . . . Few men were ever more successful as an educator . . ..He [Collier] professed religion and joined the Cumberland Presbyterian church at a campmeeting in Big Cove in 1833 and was happily married to Miss Hypasia A. Pickens, of that community, whose father was a ruling elder of the Mt. Pleasant congregation.
Rev Collier taught school 20 years in the neighborhood where he lived, and had preached eleven years at his death which occurred on the 18th of November, 1853 of typhoid fever. When conscious that his last moments had come, he said: "While there is not a dimming veil between me and heaven, yet I would love to live to preach more than I have done." He finally said, "Farewell, my dear wife of whom I never had a hard thought." Then calmly he fell asleep in Jesus leaving his wife and four children—two having gone before—to mourn their sad loss. Reverend N. J . Fox preached his funeral sermon and Rev. B. C. Chapman prayed the closing prayer. In the presence of a large and grief stricken people he was by gentle and loving hands laid away to rest in his own private graveyard "till Jesus comes."
His four children professed religion while young and lived consistent christian lives. His eldest son has been a ruling elder in the church for many years and now lives in Huntsville, Ala (in 1911).
Rev Collier taught school 20 years in the neighborhood where he lived, and had preached eleven years at his death which occurred on the 18th of November, 1853 of typhoid fever. When conscious that his last moments had come, he said: "While there is not a dimming veil between me and heaven, yet I would love to live to preach more than I have done." He finally said, "Farewell, my dear wife of whom I never had a hard thought." Then calmly he fell asleep in Jesus leaving his wife and four children—two having gone before—to mourn their sad loss. Reverend N. J . Fox preached his funeral sermon and Rev. B. C. Chapman prayed the closing prayer. In the presence of a large and grief stricken people he was by gentle and loving hands laid away to rest in his own private graveyard "till Jesus comes."
His four children professed religion while young and lived consistent christian lives. His eldest son has been a ruling elder in the church for many years and now lives in Huntsville, Ala (in 1911).
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