Bio:
from Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South:
William M Shockley was born in South Carolina July 31, 1819 and was the son of Richard and Elizabeth Shockley both devout Christians. Referring to his early training he often affectionately remarked that he was reared in the lap of the gospel. At an early age the subject of this sketch was removed with his family to Pickens County, Ala where at the age of about twenty years he entered the ranks of Christian workers as a local preacher. At the Annual Conference held at Greensboro, Ala October, 1849 he was ordained deacon by Bishop Paine and admitted on trial and was ordained elder by the same bishop at the Annual Conference held at Columbus, Ga in 1854. In 1879 he was transferred to the West Texas Conference the field of his last labors and finished his earthly course at Mobile Ala August 20, 1899 making his age eighty years and twenty days. About sixty years of his life were spent in pleading the cause of Christ and in pointing the lost to the way of salvation. He was an extemporaneous preacher of good ability and his sermons seemed filled with divine unction and often did his face shine as he proclaimed the merits of Jesus to dying men. On the day of his death he had an appointment to preach but when the hour came his tongue was still and his hands folded in the repose of death. Quietly he passed away. Slower and slower beat the pulse slower and slower came the breathing until just as the evening shadows were gathering it ceased and the watchers whispered He is gone. It is with regret that we cannot furnish either a list of his appointments or a synopsis of his work. But his record is on high and some day we shall see him in the enjoyment of his reward.
Courtesy of W. C. Daniel
from Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South:
William M Shockley was born in South Carolina July 31, 1819 and was the son of Richard and Elizabeth Shockley both devout Christians. Referring to his early training he often affectionately remarked that he was reared in the lap of the gospel. At an early age the subject of this sketch was removed with his family to Pickens County, Ala where at the age of about twenty years he entered the ranks of Christian workers as a local preacher. At the Annual Conference held at Greensboro, Ala October, 1849 he was ordained deacon by Bishop Paine and admitted on trial and was ordained elder by the same bishop at the Annual Conference held at Columbus, Ga in 1854. In 1879 he was transferred to the West Texas Conference the field of his last labors and finished his earthly course at Mobile Ala August 20, 1899 making his age eighty years and twenty days. About sixty years of his life were spent in pleading the cause of Christ and in pointing the lost to the way of salvation. He was an extemporaneous preacher of good ability and his sermons seemed filled with divine unction and often did his face shine as he proclaimed the merits of Jesus to dying men. On the day of his death he had an appointment to preach but when the hour came his tongue was still and his hands folded in the repose of death. Quietly he passed away. Slower and slower beat the pulse slower and slower came the breathing until just as the evening shadows were gathering it ceased and the watchers whispered He is gone. It is with regret that we cannot furnish either a list of his appointments or a synopsis of his work. But his record is on high and some day we shall see him in the enjoyment of his reward.
Courtesy of W. C. Daniel
Bio:
from Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South:
William M Shockley was born in South Carolina July 31, 1819 and was the son of Richard and Elizabeth Shockley both devout Christians. Referring to his early training he often affectionately remarked that he was reared in the lap of the gospel. At an early age the subject of this sketch was removed with his family to Pickens County, Ala where at the age of about twenty years he entered the ranks of Christian workers as a local preacher. At the Annual Conference held at Greensboro, Ala October, 1849 he was ordained deacon by Bishop Paine and admitted on trial and was ordained elder by the same bishop at the Annual Conference held at Columbus, Ga in 1854. In 1879 he was transferred to the West Texas Conference the field of his last labors and finished his earthly course at Mobile Ala August 20, 1899 making his age eighty years and twenty days. About sixty years of his life were spent in pleading the cause of Christ and in pointing the lost to the way of salvation. He was an extemporaneous preacher of good ability and his sermons seemed filled with divine unction and often did his face shine as he proclaimed the merits of Jesus to dying men. On the day of his death he had an appointment to preach but when the hour came his tongue was still and his hands folded in the repose of death. Quietly he passed away. Slower and slower beat the pulse slower and slower came the breathing until just as the evening shadows were gathering it ceased and the watchers whispered He is gone. It is with regret that we cannot furnish either a list of his appointments or a synopsis of his work. But his record is on high and some day we shall see him in the enjoyment of his reward.
Courtesy of W. C. Daniel
from Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South:
William M Shockley was born in South Carolina July 31, 1819 and was the son of Richard and Elizabeth Shockley both devout Christians. Referring to his early training he often affectionately remarked that he was reared in the lap of the gospel. At an early age the subject of this sketch was removed with his family to Pickens County, Ala where at the age of about twenty years he entered the ranks of Christian workers as a local preacher. At the Annual Conference held at Greensboro, Ala October, 1849 he was ordained deacon by Bishop Paine and admitted on trial and was ordained elder by the same bishop at the Annual Conference held at Columbus, Ga in 1854. In 1879 he was transferred to the West Texas Conference the field of his last labors and finished his earthly course at Mobile Ala August 20, 1899 making his age eighty years and twenty days. About sixty years of his life were spent in pleading the cause of Christ and in pointing the lost to the way of salvation. He was an extemporaneous preacher of good ability and his sermons seemed filled with divine unction and often did his face shine as he proclaimed the merits of Jesus to dying men. On the day of his death he had an appointment to preach but when the hour came his tongue was still and his hands folded in the repose of death. Quietly he passed away. Slower and slower beat the pulse slower and slower came the breathing until just as the evening shadows were gathering it ceased and the watchers whispered He is gone. It is with regret that we cannot furnish either a list of his appointments or a synopsis of his work. But his record is on high and some day we shall see him in the enjoyment of his reward.
Courtesy of W. C. Daniel
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