Sylvester was the son of John C. and Emily Bradford Blythe.
He married: 1)Sardenia L. Smith 9/14/1887
2)Ellen B. Fennel 11/8/1899.
He was admitted on trial as a minister in the Methodist Church South in 1883
Blythe Memorial Methodist Church in Colbert Co.,AL was named for him.
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REV. BLYTHE 91, DIES AT B'HAM
Rev. S.V. Blythe, aged 91, of Town Creek noted Methodist minister, died this morning at 1:45 o'clock at South Highlands hospital, Birmingham.
Rev. Blythe, who was active with the Methodist conference for about 60 years, organized the Fennel Memorial church, north of Town Creek, several years ago. He is the originator of the supernnuade home movement of the Methodist, church, a movement which gives homes to retired ministers and widows of ministers. This movement was started by Rev. Blythe in Montevallo and has become a nation-wide movement of the Methodist church.
He was considered by his fellow workers as one of the most efficient members of the North Alabama conference of Methodist churches.
Rev. Blythe's ministry dates back to his early manhood when one of his early experiences was visiting the Huntsville jail where Frank James, brother of Jesse James, ill-famed criminal, was being held, soon after the Civil War and prayed with him. Rev. Blythe was then a pastor in Madison county.
Survivors; seven sons, Elmer, Birmingham; Robert, New York; James, Courtland; Delony and Eugene, Leighton, Elbert(John Elbridge), Moulton; Augusta, Town Creek; a daughter, Mrs. Sidney (Ruth)Anderson, Town Creek.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Methodist church in Leighton, with Dr. R.L. Archibald, Florence, superintendent of the North Alabama District of the Methodist conference, and Rev. Treadaway, Leighton, officiating. Interment will be in King cemetery, Brown-Service, Tuscumbia, directing.
Pallbearers will be Frank Coburn, W.H. Marsh, Fritz Delony, Leonard Pruitt, Charlie Hotchkiss, Horace Holland, Otto Speake and Hollin Abrams.
He married: 1)Sardenia L. Smith 9/14/1887
2)Ellen B. Fennel 11/8/1899.
He was admitted on trial as a minister in the Methodist Church South in 1883
Blythe Memorial Methodist Church in Colbert Co.,AL was named for him.
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REV. BLYTHE 91, DIES AT B'HAM
Rev. S.V. Blythe, aged 91, of Town Creek noted Methodist minister, died this morning at 1:45 o'clock at South Highlands hospital, Birmingham.
Rev. Blythe, who was active with the Methodist conference for about 60 years, organized the Fennel Memorial church, north of Town Creek, several years ago. He is the originator of the supernnuade home movement of the Methodist, church, a movement which gives homes to retired ministers and widows of ministers. This movement was started by Rev. Blythe in Montevallo and has become a nation-wide movement of the Methodist church.
He was considered by his fellow workers as one of the most efficient members of the North Alabama conference of Methodist churches.
Rev. Blythe's ministry dates back to his early manhood when one of his early experiences was visiting the Huntsville jail where Frank James, brother of Jesse James, ill-famed criminal, was being held, soon after the Civil War and prayed with him. Rev. Blythe was then a pastor in Madison county.
Survivors; seven sons, Elmer, Birmingham; Robert, New York; James, Courtland; Delony and Eugene, Leighton, Elbert(John Elbridge), Moulton; Augusta, Town Creek; a daughter, Mrs. Sidney (Ruth)Anderson, Town Creek.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Methodist church in Leighton, with Dr. R.L. Archibald, Florence, superintendent of the North Alabama District of the Methodist conference, and Rev. Treadaway, Leighton, officiating. Interment will be in King cemetery, Brown-Service, Tuscumbia, directing.
Pallbearers will be Frank Coburn, W.H. Marsh, Fritz Delony, Leonard Pruitt, Charlie Hotchkiss, Horace Holland, Otto Speake and Hollin Abrams.
Sylvester was the son of John C. and Emily Bradford Blythe.
He married: 1)Sardenia L. Smith 9/14/1887
2)Ellen B. Fennel 11/8/1899.
He was admitted on trial as a minister in the Methodist Church South in 1883
Blythe Memorial Methodist Church in Colbert Co.,AL was named for him.
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REV. BLYTHE 91, DIES AT B'HAM
Rev. S.V. Blythe, aged 91, of Town Creek noted Methodist minister, died this morning at 1:45 o'clock at South Highlands hospital, Birmingham.
Rev. Blythe, who was active with the Methodist conference for about 60 years, organized the Fennel Memorial church, north of Town Creek, several years ago. He is the originator of the supernnuade home movement of the Methodist, church, a movement which gives homes to retired ministers and widows of ministers. This movement was started by Rev. Blythe in Montevallo and has become a nation-wide movement of the Methodist church.
He was considered by his fellow workers as one of the most efficient members of the North Alabama conference of Methodist churches.
Rev. Blythe's ministry dates back to his early manhood when one of his early experiences was visiting the Huntsville jail where Frank James, brother of Jesse James, ill-famed criminal, was being held, soon after the Civil War and prayed with him. Rev. Blythe was then a pastor in Madison county.
Survivors; seven sons, Elmer, Birmingham; Robert, New York; James, Courtland; Delony and Eugene, Leighton, Elbert(John Elbridge), Moulton; Augusta, Town Creek; a daughter, Mrs. Sidney (Ruth)Anderson, Town Creek.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Methodist church in Leighton, with Dr. R.L. Archibald, Florence, superintendent of the North Alabama District of the Methodist conference, and Rev. Treadaway, Leighton, officiating. Interment will be in King cemetery, Brown-Service, Tuscumbia, directing.
Pallbearers will be Frank Coburn, W.H. Marsh, Fritz Delony, Leonard Pruitt, Charlie Hotchkiss, Horace Holland, Otto Speake and Hollin Abrams.
He married: 1)Sardenia L. Smith 9/14/1887
2)Ellen B. Fennel 11/8/1899.
He was admitted on trial as a minister in the Methodist Church South in 1883
Blythe Memorial Methodist Church in Colbert Co.,AL was named for him.
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REV. BLYTHE 91, DIES AT B'HAM
Rev. S.V. Blythe, aged 91, of Town Creek noted Methodist minister, died this morning at 1:45 o'clock at South Highlands hospital, Birmingham.
Rev. Blythe, who was active with the Methodist conference for about 60 years, organized the Fennel Memorial church, north of Town Creek, several years ago. He is the originator of the supernnuade home movement of the Methodist, church, a movement which gives homes to retired ministers and widows of ministers. This movement was started by Rev. Blythe in Montevallo and has become a nation-wide movement of the Methodist church.
He was considered by his fellow workers as one of the most efficient members of the North Alabama conference of Methodist churches.
Rev. Blythe's ministry dates back to his early manhood when one of his early experiences was visiting the Huntsville jail where Frank James, brother of Jesse James, ill-famed criminal, was being held, soon after the Civil War and prayed with him. Rev. Blythe was then a pastor in Madison county.
Survivors; seven sons, Elmer, Birmingham; Robert, New York; James, Courtland; Delony and Eugene, Leighton, Elbert(John Elbridge), Moulton; Augusta, Town Creek; a daughter, Mrs. Sidney (Ruth)Anderson, Town Creek.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Methodist church in Leighton, with Dr. R.L. Archibald, Florence, superintendent of the North Alabama District of the Methodist conference, and Rev. Treadaway, Leighton, officiating. Interment will be in King cemetery, Brown-Service, Tuscumbia, directing.
Pallbearers will be Frank Coburn, W.H. Marsh, Fritz Delony, Leonard Pruitt, Charlie Hotchkiss, Horace Holland, Otto Speake and Hollin Abrams.
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