Alexander Coke Smith was the son of Rev. William Hankins Robert Smith and Mary Isabella "Bella" (McLeod) Smith.
Rev. Alexander Coke Smith was a Methodist minister and later Bishop.
Cause of death: tuberculosis.
Ashville, N.C. December 27-Bishop A. Coke Smith, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, died tonight after a lingering illness. He was fifty seven years of age, having been born in Lynchburg, S.C., September 16, 1849. He graduated from Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C., in 1872, and joined the South Carolina Conference, He was pastor at Cheraw, Columbia, Charleston and other South Carolina points. He was at different times a member of the facilities of Vanderbilt and Wofford. While pastor at Epworth Church, Norfolk, Va., in 1902, he was elected bishop. Two years ago he removed to Asheville for his health.
Dr. Smith entered the South Carolina Conference December, and continued in it twenty years. He was stationed one year at Cheraw; three years at Washington Street, Columbia; four years at Buncombe Street, Greenville; three years at Trinity, Charleston. Two and a half years he served as presiding elder of the Columbia District. June 1866, he was elected professor of mental and moral philosophy in Wofford College and held that office until the general conference of 1890 elected him one of the missionary secretaries. This position he resigned in July, and accepted the chair of practical theology in Vanderbilt University.
A vacancy having occurred in the pastorate of Granby Street Station, Norfolk, Va., he was transferred in May, 1892, to the Virginia Conference, and put in charge of that church. During his pastoral term there was erected by his people the elegant and commodious stone church, well known by the name of Epworth. In 1895 he was appointed to Court Street, Lynchburg, and in 1899 returned to Epworth.
The degree of doctor of divinity was conferred on him in 1887 by Erskine College of the Associate Reform Presbyterian Church. Thrice he has sat in the general conference – in 1890 as chairman of the South Carolina delegation, in 1894 and 1898 as a delegate of the Virginia Conference. He was a trustee of Randolph-Macon College, president of the board of education of the Virginia Conference, and a member of the general board of missions. In 1890 he was chosen by the College of Bishops as the fraternal delegate from the church to the Methodist Church in Canada.
December 29, 1905, he celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of his marriage to Miss Kate Kinard, of Newberry, S.C. He leaves a wife and a large family of children.
The times Dispatch, December 28, 1906
Rev. Alexander Coke Smith was a Methodist minister and later Bishop.
Cause of death: tuberculosis.
Ashville, N.C. December 27-Bishop A. Coke Smith, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, died tonight after a lingering illness. He was fifty seven years of age, having been born in Lynchburg, S.C., September 16, 1849. He graduated from Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C., in 1872, and joined the South Carolina Conference, He was pastor at Cheraw, Columbia, Charleston and other South Carolina points. He was at different times a member of the facilities of Vanderbilt and Wofford. While pastor at Epworth Church, Norfolk, Va., in 1902, he was elected bishop. Two years ago he removed to Asheville for his health.
Dr. Smith entered the South Carolina Conference December, and continued in it twenty years. He was stationed one year at Cheraw; three years at Washington Street, Columbia; four years at Buncombe Street, Greenville; three years at Trinity, Charleston. Two and a half years he served as presiding elder of the Columbia District. June 1866, he was elected professor of mental and moral philosophy in Wofford College and held that office until the general conference of 1890 elected him one of the missionary secretaries. This position he resigned in July, and accepted the chair of practical theology in Vanderbilt University.
A vacancy having occurred in the pastorate of Granby Street Station, Norfolk, Va., he was transferred in May, 1892, to the Virginia Conference, and put in charge of that church. During his pastoral term there was erected by his people the elegant and commodious stone church, well known by the name of Epworth. In 1895 he was appointed to Court Street, Lynchburg, and in 1899 returned to Epworth.
The degree of doctor of divinity was conferred on him in 1887 by Erskine College of the Associate Reform Presbyterian Church. Thrice he has sat in the general conference – in 1890 as chairman of the South Carolina delegation, in 1894 and 1898 as a delegate of the Virginia Conference. He was a trustee of Randolph-Macon College, president of the board of education of the Virginia Conference, and a member of the general board of missions. In 1890 he was chosen by the College of Bishops as the fraternal delegate from the church to the Methodist Church in Canada.
December 29, 1905, he celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of his marriage to Miss Kate Kinard, of Newberry, S.C. He leaves a wife and a large family of children.
The times Dispatch, December 28, 1906
Alexander Coke Smith was the son of Rev. William Hankins Robert Smith and Mary Isabella "Bella" (McLeod) Smith.
Rev. Alexander Coke Smith was a Methodist minister and later Bishop.
Cause of death: tuberculosis.
Ashville, N.C. December 27-Bishop A. Coke Smith, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, died tonight after a lingering illness. He was fifty seven years of age, having been born in Lynchburg, S.C., September 16, 1849. He graduated from Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C., in 1872, and joined the South Carolina Conference, He was pastor at Cheraw, Columbia, Charleston and other South Carolina points. He was at different times a member of the facilities of Vanderbilt and Wofford. While pastor at Epworth Church, Norfolk, Va., in 1902, he was elected bishop. Two years ago he removed to Asheville for his health.
Dr. Smith entered the South Carolina Conference December, and continued in it twenty years. He was stationed one year at Cheraw; three years at Washington Street, Columbia; four years at Buncombe Street, Greenville; three years at Trinity, Charleston. Two and a half years he served as presiding elder of the Columbia District. June 1866, he was elected professor of mental and moral philosophy in Wofford College and held that office until the general conference of 1890 elected him one of the missionary secretaries. This position he resigned in July, and accepted the chair of practical theology in Vanderbilt University.
A vacancy having occurred in the pastorate of Granby Street Station, Norfolk, Va., he was transferred in May, 1892, to the Virginia Conference, and put in charge of that church. During his pastoral term there was erected by his people the elegant and commodious stone church, well known by the name of Epworth. In 1895 he was appointed to Court Street, Lynchburg, and in 1899 returned to Epworth.
The degree of doctor of divinity was conferred on him in 1887 by Erskine College of the Associate Reform Presbyterian Church. Thrice he has sat in the general conference – in 1890 as chairman of the South Carolina delegation, in 1894 and 1898 as a delegate of the Virginia Conference. He was a trustee of Randolph-Macon College, president of the board of education of the Virginia Conference, and a member of the general board of missions. In 1890 he was chosen by the College of Bishops as the fraternal delegate from the church to the Methodist Church in Canada.
December 29, 1905, he celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of his marriage to Miss Kate Kinard, of Newberry, S.C. He leaves a wife and a large family of children.
The times Dispatch, December 28, 1906
Rev. Alexander Coke Smith was a Methodist minister and later Bishop.
Cause of death: tuberculosis.
Ashville, N.C. December 27-Bishop A. Coke Smith, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, died tonight after a lingering illness. He was fifty seven years of age, having been born in Lynchburg, S.C., September 16, 1849. He graduated from Wofford College, Spartanburg, S.C., in 1872, and joined the South Carolina Conference, He was pastor at Cheraw, Columbia, Charleston and other South Carolina points. He was at different times a member of the facilities of Vanderbilt and Wofford. While pastor at Epworth Church, Norfolk, Va., in 1902, he was elected bishop. Two years ago he removed to Asheville for his health.
Dr. Smith entered the South Carolina Conference December, and continued in it twenty years. He was stationed one year at Cheraw; three years at Washington Street, Columbia; four years at Buncombe Street, Greenville; three years at Trinity, Charleston. Two and a half years he served as presiding elder of the Columbia District. June 1866, he was elected professor of mental and moral philosophy in Wofford College and held that office until the general conference of 1890 elected him one of the missionary secretaries. This position he resigned in July, and accepted the chair of practical theology in Vanderbilt University.
A vacancy having occurred in the pastorate of Granby Street Station, Norfolk, Va., he was transferred in May, 1892, to the Virginia Conference, and put in charge of that church. During his pastoral term there was erected by his people the elegant and commodious stone church, well known by the name of Epworth. In 1895 he was appointed to Court Street, Lynchburg, and in 1899 returned to Epworth.
The degree of doctor of divinity was conferred on him in 1887 by Erskine College of the Associate Reform Presbyterian Church. Thrice he has sat in the general conference – in 1890 as chairman of the South Carolina delegation, in 1894 and 1898 as a delegate of the Virginia Conference. He was a trustee of Randolph-Macon College, president of the board of education of the Virginia Conference, and a member of the general board of missions. In 1890 he was chosen by the College of Bishops as the fraternal delegate from the church to the Methodist Church in Canada.
December 29, 1905, he celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of his marriage to Miss Kate Kinard, of Newberry, S.C. He leaves a wife and a large family of children.
The times Dispatch, December 28, 1906
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