"This [Calhoun] was the hometown of old Rees Jones, one of the early Tennessee preachers that Lipscomb knew about when he was a boy. Jones was not only a preacher but a blacksmith. Some of the brethren took Lipscomb around and showed him the blacksmith shop where Jones had worked many years before." The Life and Times of David Lipscomb, Earl Irvin West, p. 254.
Of Tolbert Fanning, "Rees Jones, an early pioneer preacher, said to him, 'I do not think you will ever make a preacher. It might be well for you to go at something else.'" The Search for the Ancient Order, Vol. 1, Earl Irvin West, p. 112.
"On Monday the 8th of May in the year of our Lord 1848 the Church of Christ at Philadelphia, Walker County, Georgia constituted by the instruction of Rees Jones on the Bible alone as the rule of faith and practice." ---Christianity Magazine, July 1990, p. 13. [Not sure this is the same Rees Jones].
"This [Calhoun] was the hometown of old Rees Jones, one of the early Tennessee preachers that Lipscomb knew about when he was a boy. Jones was not only a preacher but a blacksmith. Some of the brethren took Lipscomb around and showed him the blacksmith shop where Jones had worked many years before." The Life and Times of David Lipscomb, Earl Irvin West, p. 254.
Of Tolbert Fanning, "Rees Jones, an early pioneer preacher, said to him, 'I do not think you will ever make a preacher. It might be well for you to go at something else.'" The Search for the Ancient Order, Vol. 1, Earl Irvin West, p. 112.
"On Monday the 8th of May in the year of our Lord 1848 the Church of Christ at Philadelphia, Walker County, Georgia constituted by the instruction of Rees Jones on the Bible alone as the rule of faith and practice." ---Christianity Magazine, July 1990, p. 13. [Not sure this is the same Rees Jones].
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