John Haran Gresham was the youngest son of 22 children of George Gresham, and was court-appointed administrator of the estate of his father. He moved to Hunt County, TX in 1869. He was the father of 13 children.
REVEREND JOHN HARAN GRESHAM
Rev. John Haran Gresham was born in Lawrence county, Tennessee, February 24, 1829; was born of the Spirit and received into the Methodist Church, South, in 1854. Four years after that he was licensed to preach by Rev. J. E. Hughes, presiding elder, July 28, 1858. On October 8, 1865, he was ordained deacon by Bishop Kavanagh of Nashville, Tennessee, and was ordained elder by Bishop Marvin, October 9, 1870 at Harrell's Chapel, Hunt county, Texas. He passed to his reward April 3, 1892. The funeral services were conducted by Bro. M. C. Harris. Bro. Gresham was the youngest of twenty-one children, his father having been married twice. Four sisters and one half-brother are still living.
In Giles county, Tennessee, on January 27, 1847, he was united in marriage to Miss Caroline Langham, who was truly his "helpmeet" until his death. Their union was blessed with thirteen children, the oldest of whom is a son forty years of age. Of these, eight are still living. His son informs me that he was four years in the Confederate Army, and during the entire time served his battalion, the Ninth Tennessee, as chaplain.
Bro. Gresham moved to Hunt county, Texas, in 1869, and has all the while been a man of service to his Church and community as a local preacher. In 1887 he told me that he had kept a regular monthly appointment at one place for seventeen years. I became well acquainted in that community, and found their confidence in him to be unbounded. His preaching was clear, forcible, unspairing of the ungodly, full of sympathy for the suffering and love for the righteous. All understood that he preached because he loved the souls of men. I first met Bro. Gresham in 1886 when I became preacher in charge of Merit circuit, in which he lived. Our relation during my term of service was exceedingly pleasant. Bro. Gresham was truly a friend and brother to me, and I felt that his friendship was free to all who needed or appreciated a friend. His friendship was reciprocated by all who knew him. On his firth temple there was a red scabby spot about the size of a silver half-dollar. In 1887 he told me that it had been there about twenty years. About two years ago it developed into a cancer and caused his death. His suffering the last two or three days before he died was very great. For ten or twelve hours before he died he was by little, if any, of the time in his right mind, but talked a great deal as if to himself, using such expressions as "Glory! Glory! Blessed be the name of the Lord! Going home!" and many other like expressions. He has gone to keep the mansion with the five children that are at hoe with their Heavenly Father. The widow, children, and grandchildren remain in this distant land awaiting their summons. May God sanctify his precious memory to their stronger desire for the better world, that the strive, the harder to enter into that day of eternal rest that "remaineth to the people of God."
A. C. Benson
The obituary for Rev. John Haran Gresham was published in an unknown paper.
REVEREND JOHN HARAN GRESHAM
Rev. John Haran Gresham was born in Lawrence county, Tennessee, February 24, 1829; was born of the Spirit and received into the Methodist Church, South, in 1854. Four years after that he was licensed to preach by Rev. J. E. Hughes, presiding elder, July 28, 1858. On October 8, 1865, he was ordained deacon by Bishop Kavanagh of Nashville, Tennessee, and was ordained elder by Bishop Marvin, October 9, 1870 at Harrell's Chapel, Hunt county, Texas. He passed to his reward April 3, 1892. The funeral services were conducted by Bro. M. C. Harris. Bro. Gresham was the youngest of twenty-one children, his father having been married twice. Four sisters and one half-brother are still living.
In Giles county, Tennessee, on January 27, 1847, he was united in marriage to Miss Caroline Langham, who was truly his "helpmeet" until his death. Their union was blessed with thirteen children, the oldest of whom is a son forty years of age. Of these, eight are still living. His son informs me that he was four years in the Confederate Army, and during the entire time served his battalion, the Ninth Tennessee, as chaplain.
Bro. Gresham moved to Hunt county, Texas, in 1869, and has all the while been a man of service to his Church and community as a local preacher. In 1887 he told me that he had kept a regular monthly appointment at one place for seventeen years. I became well acquainted in that community, and found their confidence in him to be unbounded. His preaching was clear, forcible, unspairing of the ungodly, full of sympathy for the suffering and love for the righteous. All understood that he preached because he loved the souls of men. I first met Bro. Gresham in 1886 when I became preacher in charge of Merit circuit, in which he lived. Our relation during my term of service was exceedingly pleasant. Bro. Gresham was truly a friend and brother to me, and I felt that his friendship was free to all who needed or appreciated a friend. His friendship was reciprocated by all who knew him. On his firth temple there was a red scabby spot about the size of a silver half-dollar. In 1887 he told me that it had been there about twenty years. About two years ago it developed into a cancer and caused his death. His suffering the last two or three days before he died was very great. For ten or twelve hours before he died he was by little, if any, of the time in his right mind, but talked a great deal as if to himself, using such expressions as "Glory! Glory! Blessed be the name of the Lord! Going home!" and many other like expressions. He has gone to keep the mansion with the five children that are at hoe with their Heavenly Father. The widow, children, and grandchildren remain in this distant land awaiting their summons. May God sanctify his precious memory to their stronger desire for the better world, that the strive, the harder to enter into that day of eternal rest that "remaineth to the people of God."
A. C. Benson
The obituary for Rev. John Haran Gresham was published in an unknown paper.
John Haran Gresham was the youngest son of 22 children of George Gresham, and was court-appointed administrator of the estate of his father. He moved to Hunt County, TX in 1869. He was the father of 13 children.
REVEREND JOHN HARAN GRESHAM
Rev. John Haran Gresham was born in Lawrence county, Tennessee, February 24, 1829; was born of the Spirit and received into the Methodist Church, South, in 1854. Four years after that he was licensed to preach by Rev. J. E. Hughes, presiding elder, July 28, 1858. On October 8, 1865, he was ordained deacon by Bishop Kavanagh of Nashville, Tennessee, and was ordained elder by Bishop Marvin, October 9, 1870 at Harrell's Chapel, Hunt county, Texas. He passed to his reward April 3, 1892. The funeral services were conducted by Bro. M. C. Harris. Bro. Gresham was the youngest of twenty-one children, his father having been married twice. Four sisters and one half-brother are still living.
In Giles county, Tennessee, on January 27, 1847, he was united in marriage to Miss Caroline Langham, who was truly his "helpmeet" until his death. Their union was blessed with thirteen children, the oldest of whom is a son forty years of age. Of these, eight are still living. His son informs me that he was four years in the Confederate Army, and during the entire time served his battalion, the Ninth Tennessee, as chaplain.
Bro. Gresham moved to Hunt county, Texas, in 1869, and has all the while been a man of service to his Church and community as a local preacher. In 1887 he told me that he had kept a regular monthly appointment at one place for seventeen years. I became well acquainted in that community, and found their confidence in him to be unbounded. His preaching was clear, forcible, unspairing of the ungodly, full of sympathy for the suffering and love for the righteous. All understood that he preached because he loved the souls of men. I first met Bro. Gresham in 1886 when I became preacher in charge of Merit circuit, in which he lived. Our relation during my term of service was exceedingly pleasant. Bro. Gresham was truly a friend and brother to me, and I felt that his friendship was free to all who needed or appreciated a friend. His friendship was reciprocated by all who knew him. On his firth temple there was a red scabby spot about the size of a silver half-dollar. In 1887 he told me that it had been there about twenty years. About two years ago it developed into a cancer and caused his death. His suffering the last two or three days before he died was very great. For ten or twelve hours before he died he was by little, if any, of the time in his right mind, but talked a great deal as if to himself, using such expressions as "Glory! Glory! Blessed be the name of the Lord! Going home!" and many other like expressions. He has gone to keep the mansion with the five children that are at hoe with their Heavenly Father. The widow, children, and grandchildren remain in this distant land awaiting their summons. May God sanctify his precious memory to their stronger desire for the better world, that the strive, the harder to enter into that day of eternal rest that "remaineth to the people of God."
A. C. Benson
The obituary for Rev. John Haran Gresham was published in an unknown paper.
REVEREND JOHN HARAN GRESHAM
Rev. John Haran Gresham was born in Lawrence county, Tennessee, February 24, 1829; was born of the Spirit and received into the Methodist Church, South, in 1854. Four years after that he was licensed to preach by Rev. J. E. Hughes, presiding elder, July 28, 1858. On October 8, 1865, he was ordained deacon by Bishop Kavanagh of Nashville, Tennessee, and was ordained elder by Bishop Marvin, October 9, 1870 at Harrell's Chapel, Hunt county, Texas. He passed to his reward April 3, 1892. The funeral services were conducted by Bro. M. C. Harris. Bro. Gresham was the youngest of twenty-one children, his father having been married twice. Four sisters and one half-brother are still living.
In Giles county, Tennessee, on January 27, 1847, he was united in marriage to Miss Caroline Langham, who was truly his "helpmeet" until his death. Their union was blessed with thirteen children, the oldest of whom is a son forty years of age. Of these, eight are still living. His son informs me that he was four years in the Confederate Army, and during the entire time served his battalion, the Ninth Tennessee, as chaplain.
Bro. Gresham moved to Hunt county, Texas, in 1869, and has all the while been a man of service to his Church and community as a local preacher. In 1887 he told me that he had kept a regular monthly appointment at one place for seventeen years. I became well acquainted in that community, and found their confidence in him to be unbounded. His preaching was clear, forcible, unspairing of the ungodly, full of sympathy for the suffering and love for the righteous. All understood that he preached because he loved the souls of men. I first met Bro. Gresham in 1886 when I became preacher in charge of Merit circuit, in which he lived. Our relation during my term of service was exceedingly pleasant. Bro. Gresham was truly a friend and brother to me, and I felt that his friendship was free to all who needed or appreciated a friend. His friendship was reciprocated by all who knew him. On his firth temple there was a red scabby spot about the size of a silver half-dollar. In 1887 he told me that it had been there about twenty years. About two years ago it developed into a cancer and caused his death. His suffering the last two or three days before he died was very great. For ten or twelve hours before he died he was by little, if any, of the time in his right mind, but talked a great deal as if to himself, using such expressions as "Glory! Glory! Blessed be the name of the Lord! Going home!" and many other like expressions. He has gone to keep the mansion with the five children that are at hoe with their Heavenly Father. The widow, children, and grandchildren remain in this distant land awaiting their summons. May God sanctify his precious memory to their stronger desire for the better world, that the strive, the harder to enter into that day of eternal rest that "remaineth to the people of God."
A. C. Benson
The obituary for Rev. John Haran Gresham was published in an unknown paper.
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