| Birth: | Sep. 19, 1884
Obion County
Tennessee, USA | | Death: | Oct. 31, 1962 | 
Gospel preacher, music teacher, and song leader. John T. Smith was born September 19, 1884, in Obion County, Tenn. He obeyed the gospel, at the age of fourteen, during a meeting conducted by John R. Williams, of Hornbeak, Tenn. It may be said that John T. came of preacher stock. His great-uncle, Matthew Wilson; his uncle, S. W. Smith; his father, G. W. Smith; and three brothers, G. Dallas, Robert D., and Fred D., all preceded him as preachers. Brother Smith's early life was greatly influenced and his future work largely determined by the encouragement and assistance and the consecrated life of his brother, G. Dallas Smith. By him John T. was taught the rudiments and technique of vocal music, and trained in the work of directing the singing in religious meetings. For seven years he was engaged in protracted - meeting work as song director with his brothers, John R. Williams, R. C. Bell, and others, during the latter part of which he began preaching occasionally. Brother Smith's first regular work was in Phillips County, Ark., beginning in the fall of 1907, where he divided his time between four congregations. Brother Smith entered Southwestern Christian College, at Denton, Texas, in 1906. At this time A. G. Freed was president of the college, and his chapel lectures and inspirational talks in the classes gave to Brother Smith a greater insight into life's possibilities than he had hitherto realized. Later in 1906 he entered the Nashville Bible School, now David Lipscomb College, where he remained for one season. Beginning with the autumn of 1908, he spent three years in Freed-Hardeman College, at Henderson, Tenn., taking courses in the Bible and related subjects under three of the outstanding Bible teachers-A. G. Freed, N. B. Hardeman, and T. B. Larimore. During two years of this time he taught vocal music in the college. In 1923 he was chosen as the song leader and director of the Hardeman-Smith meeting, the second great tabernacle meeting conducted by the churches of Christ in Nashville, Tenn. Brother Smith has done general evangelistic work in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas, and has preached some in Washington, D. C., and in Canada. He has spent twenty-seven years in located work, laboring with eight different congregations, the names and order of which are here given: Fullerton, La.; Jackson, Sparta, and Dickson, Tenn.; Denver, Colo.; Detroit, Mich. (Plum Street Church); and Lubbock and San Angelo. Texas. His longest ministry with a congregation was at Lubbock with the Broadway Church, where he spent twelve years, during which time the congregation became one of the largest in the brotherhood. He has just begun his third year with the San Angelo Church, which numbers more than seven hundred. ---Gospel Advocate, Dec. 18, 1941, 1206. Gospel preacher listed in Preachers of Today, Vol. 1, 1952, 317.
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Parents:
George Washington Smith (1840 - 1921)
Lucy Campbell Stanley Smith (1844 - 1906)
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Resthaven Memorial Park
Lubbock
Lubbock County
Texas, USA
Plot: Mausoleum
GPS (lat/lon): 33.58084, -101.9369 |
Maintained by: Tom Childers
Originally Created by: David Sifford
Record added: Jun 20, 2007
Find A Grave Memorial# 19989101 |
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