DEATH OF REMARKABLE PREACHER.
Fought Indians in Texas and Went Through Civil War. SPECIAL TO THE NEWS. Denton, Tex., June 20. -Rev. Joe Loving, one of the oldest preachers in Texas and one of the oldest men in Denton county, died near Bartonville yesterday, aged 93 years. He was a Primitive Baptist preacher, who came to this country when the Comanches were making their raids, away back in the 40s; went through the Civil War with several of his own sons in Company G, Eighteenth Texas, and it is recited of him that never in all his life did he take one dose of medicine. The funeral took place at the Medlin cemetery. -Dallas Morning News, June 21, 1902, p.5
He was the son of William Ransom Loving (1784-1857) and Christina Rife Loving (1789-1850).
Fought Indians in Texas and Went Through Civil War. SPECIAL TO THE NEWS. Denton, Tex., June 20. -Rev. Joe Loving, one of the oldest preachers in Texas and one of the oldest men in Denton county, died near Bartonville yesterday, aged 93 years. He was a Primitive Baptist preacher, who came to this country when the Comanches were making their raids, away back in the 40s; went through the Civil War with several of his own sons in Company G, Eighteenth Texas, and it is recited of him that never in all his life did he take one dose of medicine. The funeral took place at the Medlin cemetery. -Dallas Morning News, June 21, 1902, p.5
He was the son of William Ransom Loving (1784-1857) and Christina Rife Loving (1789-1850).
DEATH OF REMARKABLE PREACHER.
Fought Indians in Texas and Went Through Civil War. SPECIAL TO THE NEWS. Denton, Tex., June 20. -Rev. Joe Loving, one of the oldest preachers in Texas and one of the oldest men in Denton county, died near Bartonville yesterday, aged 93 years. He was a Primitive Baptist preacher, who came to this country when the Comanches were making their raids, away back in the 40s; went through the Civil War with several of his own sons in Company G, Eighteenth Texas, and it is recited of him that never in all his life did he take one dose of medicine. The funeral took place at the Medlin cemetery. -Dallas Morning News, June 21, 1902, p.5
He was the son of William Ransom Loving (1784-1857) and Christina Rife Loving (1789-1850).
Fought Indians in Texas and Went Through Civil War. SPECIAL TO THE NEWS. Denton, Tex., June 20. -Rev. Joe Loving, one of the oldest preachers in Texas and one of the oldest men in Denton county, died near Bartonville yesterday, aged 93 years. He was a Primitive Baptist preacher, who came to this country when the Comanches were making their raids, away back in the 40s; went through the Civil War with several of his own sons in Company G, Eighteenth Texas, and it is recited of him that never in all his life did he take one dose of medicine. The funeral took place at the Medlin cemetery. -Dallas Morning News, June 21, 1902, p.5
He was the son of William Ransom Loving (1784-1857) and Christina Rife Loving (1789-1850).
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