Elder W. L. Sappington, proprietor of the store at Dixie, this county, and a minister of the Primitive Baptist Church, dropped dead in the Chicago and Alton station at Mexico, last Friday morning, while waiting for the south bound train on the Fulton branch. In company with his wife, he was returning from St. Louis, where he had been to purchase merchandise. The day before his death he complained of a slight heart trouble but otherwise seemed in usual health. The body was taken to Carrington for burial and funeral services were conducted there Saturday afternoon by Elder Ira Turner, of Ashland. Elder Sappington was born in Boone county, September 1, 1863. He was converted when he was eighteen years old and as ordained a minister of the Primitive Baptist Church in 1901. He was called to the pastorate of Callaway's only church of that denomination, which is located at Dixie, in 1904, and served the congregation in that capacity until last September. His wife, a daughter of W. B. Martin, of Carrington, and three daughters, Mameretta, Beulah and Ethel, survive him, as well as two brothers and a sister.
The Fulton Gazette, 3 April 1908, Friday, Page 1
Elder W. L. Sappington, proprietor of the store at Dixie, this county, and a minister of the Primitive Baptist Church, dropped dead in the Chicago and Alton station at Mexico, last Friday morning, while waiting for the south bound train on the Fulton branch. In company with his wife, he was returning from St. Louis, where he had been to purchase merchandise. The day before his death he complained of a slight heart trouble but otherwise seemed in usual health. The body was taken to Carrington for burial and funeral services were conducted there Saturday afternoon by Elder Ira Turner, of Ashland. Elder Sappington was born in Boone county, September 1, 1863. He was converted when he was eighteen years old and as ordained a minister of the Primitive Baptist Church in 1901. He was called to the pastorate of Callaway's only church of that denomination, which is located at Dixie, in 1904, and served the congregation in that capacity until last September. His wife, a daughter of W. B. Martin, of Carrington, and three daughters, Mameretta, Beulah and Ethel, survive him, as well as two brothers and a sister.
The Fulton Gazette, 3 April 1908, Friday, Page 1
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