Rev. WILLIAM HARRISON EVERTON was the son of Carey Everton and Mrs. Allie (Palmer) Everton.
Obituary
"Rev. William H. Everton, 64, minister of the First Christian Church, in Marshall, Texas, from 1943-1953, died from a heart attack at 2 p.m. Friday at this home in Columbus, Ohio. He had been in ill health for some time.
Funeral srevices will be held at 9 a.m. Monday in the chapel of Weir-Arend Funeral Home in Columbus. Burial will be in the family plot in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Manchester, Ohio.
The Rev. Mr. Everton was born September 20, 1909, at Manchester, and he attended seminary at Transylvania College, in Lexington, Kentucky.
He became minister of the church in Marshall in November 1943 after having served three years as a Disciples Of Christ minister in Millersburg, Kentucky.
The building of First Christian Church, in Marshall, was constructed in 1949 under his ministry.
While in Marshall, the Rev. Mr. Everton was president of the Rotary Club and the Marshall Ministerial Association & Alliance; member of the Board of Directors of the Harrison County chapter of the American Red Cross; member of the executive board of the Camp Fire Girls; board member of Associated Charities; member of the executive board of the Harrison County Community Chest, now the United Fund; and was district vice chairman of the East Texas Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He was a Mason.
In 1948, he began his weekly broadcast 'The Open Door', a series of sermonettes.
He left his Marshall ministry in 1953 to be pastor of the First Christian Church at Bellaire. Several years later, he moved to Columbus to be a field representative for the Disciples Of Christ's National Benevolent Association, from which he had retired because of his declining health.
Survivors include his widow, Anne Everton; two daughters, Mrs. Steven (Janet) Edwards, of Midland, Texas, and Marcia Ruth Everton, a senior at Texas Christian University, in Fort Worth, Texas; a son, the Rev. David Palmer Everton, minister of the First Christian Church, of Paulding, Ohio; and two sisters, Mrs. Clara Gladys Grady and Mrs. Pleasant Mae Redden, both of Portsmouth, Ohio."
Sources
~ Obituary Published in the Sunday, January 13, 1974 Edition of The Marshall News Messenger [the newspaper of Harrison County, Texas]
~ Ohio & U.S. Social Security Death Index Records
~ Florida County Marriage License Application
~ 1940 census record of Lexington, Kentucky
Obituary
"Rev. William H. Everton, 64, minister of the First Christian Church, in Marshall, Texas, from 1943-1953, died from a heart attack at 2 p.m. Friday at this home in Columbus, Ohio. He had been in ill health for some time.
Funeral srevices will be held at 9 a.m. Monday in the chapel of Weir-Arend Funeral Home in Columbus. Burial will be in the family plot in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Manchester, Ohio.
The Rev. Mr. Everton was born September 20, 1909, at Manchester, and he attended seminary at Transylvania College, in Lexington, Kentucky.
He became minister of the church in Marshall in November 1943 after having served three years as a Disciples Of Christ minister in Millersburg, Kentucky.
The building of First Christian Church, in Marshall, was constructed in 1949 under his ministry.
While in Marshall, the Rev. Mr. Everton was president of the Rotary Club and the Marshall Ministerial Association & Alliance; member of the Board of Directors of the Harrison County chapter of the American Red Cross; member of the executive board of the Camp Fire Girls; board member of Associated Charities; member of the executive board of the Harrison County Community Chest, now the United Fund; and was district vice chairman of the East Texas Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He was a Mason.
In 1948, he began his weekly broadcast 'The Open Door', a series of sermonettes.
He left his Marshall ministry in 1953 to be pastor of the First Christian Church at Bellaire. Several years later, he moved to Columbus to be a field representative for the Disciples Of Christ's National Benevolent Association, from which he had retired because of his declining health.
Survivors include his widow, Anne Everton; two daughters, Mrs. Steven (Janet) Edwards, of Midland, Texas, and Marcia Ruth Everton, a senior at Texas Christian University, in Fort Worth, Texas; a son, the Rev. David Palmer Everton, minister of the First Christian Church, of Paulding, Ohio; and two sisters, Mrs. Clara Gladys Grady and Mrs. Pleasant Mae Redden, both of Portsmouth, Ohio."
Sources
~ Obituary Published in the Sunday, January 13, 1974 Edition of The Marshall News Messenger [the newspaper of Harrison County, Texas]
~ Ohio & U.S. Social Security Death Index Records
~ Florida County Marriage License Application
~ 1940 census record of Lexington, Kentucky
Rev. WILLIAM HARRISON EVERTON was the son of Carey Everton and Mrs. Allie (Palmer) Everton.
Obituary
"Rev. William H. Everton, 64, minister of the First Christian Church, in Marshall, Texas, from 1943-1953, died from a heart attack at 2 p.m. Friday at this home in Columbus, Ohio. He had been in ill health for some time.
Funeral srevices will be held at 9 a.m. Monday in the chapel of Weir-Arend Funeral Home in Columbus. Burial will be in the family plot in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Manchester, Ohio.
The Rev. Mr. Everton was born September 20, 1909, at Manchester, and he attended seminary at Transylvania College, in Lexington, Kentucky.
He became minister of the church in Marshall in November 1943 after having served three years as a Disciples Of Christ minister in Millersburg, Kentucky.
The building of First Christian Church, in Marshall, was constructed in 1949 under his ministry.
While in Marshall, the Rev. Mr. Everton was president of the Rotary Club and the Marshall Ministerial Association & Alliance; member of the Board of Directors of the Harrison County chapter of the American Red Cross; member of the executive board of the Camp Fire Girls; board member of Associated Charities; member of the executive board of the Harrison County Community Chest, now the United Fund; and was district vice chairman of the East Texas Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He was a Mason.
In 1948, he began his weekly broadcast 'The Open Door', a series of sermonettes.
He left his Marshall ministry in 1953 to be pastor of the First Christian Church at Bellaire. Several years later, he moved to Columbus to be a field representative for the Disciples Of Christ's National Benevolent Association, from which he had retired because of his declining health.
Survivors include his widow, Anne Everton; two daughters, Mrs. Steven (Janet) Edwards, of Midland, Texas, and Marcia Ruth Everton, a senior at Texas Christian University, in Fort Worth, Texas; a son, the Rev. David Palmer Everton, minister of the First Christian Church, of Paulding, Ohio; and two sisters, Mrs. Clara Gladys Grady and Mrs. Pleasant Mae Redden, both of Portsmouth, Ohio."
Sources
~ Obituary Published in the Sunday, January 13, 1974 Edition of The Marshall News Messenger [the newspaper of Harrison County, Texas]
~ Ohio & U.S. Social Security Death Index Records
~ Florida County Marriage License Application
~ 1940 census record of Lexington, Kentucky
Obituary
"Rev. William H. Everton, 64, minister of the First Christian Church, in Marshall, Texas, from 1943-1953, died from a heart attack at 2 p.m. Friday at this home in Columbus, Ohio. He had been in ill health for some time.
Funeral srevices will be held at 9 a.m. Monday in the chapel of Weir-Arend Funeral Home in Columbus. Burial will be in the family plot in the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Manchester, Ohio.
The Rev. Mr. Everton was born September 20, 1909, at Manchester, and he attended seminary at Transylvania College, in Lexington, Kentucky.
He became minister of the church in Marshall in November 1943 after having served three years as a Disciples Of Christ minister in Millersburg, Kentucky.
The building of First Christian Church, in Marshall, was constructed in 1949 under his ministry.
While in Marshall, the Rev. Mr. Everton was president of the Rotary Club and the Marshall Ministerial Association & Alliance; member of the Board of Directors of the Harrison County chapter of the American Red Cross; member of the executive board of the Camp Fire Girls; board member of Associated Charities; member of the executive board of the Harrison County Community Chest, now the United Fund; and was district vice chairman of the East Texas Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He was a Mason.
In 1948, he began his weekly broadcast 'The Open Door', a series of sermonettes.
He left his Marshall ministry in 1953 to be pastor of the First Christian Church at Bellaire. Several years later, he moved to Columbus to be a field representative for the Disciples Of Christ's National Benevolent Association, from which he had retired because of his declining health.
Survivors include his widow, Anne Everton; two daughters, Mrs. Steven (Janet) Edwards, of Midland, Texas, and Marcia Ruth Everton, a senior at Texas Christian University, in Fort Worth, Texas; a son, the Rev. David Palmer Everton, minister of the First Christian Church, of Paulding, Ohio; and two sisters, Mrs. Clara Gladys Grady and Mrs. Pleasant Mae Redden, both of Portsmouth, Ohio."
Sources
~ Obituary Published in the Sunday, January 13, 1974 Edition of The Marshall News Messenger [the newspaper of Harrison County, Texas]
~ Ohio & U.S. Social Security Death Index Records
~ Florida County Marriage License Application
~ 1940 census record of Lexington, Kentucky
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