The following are just from Jan.-June 1880. This is definitely a site worth exploring completely! Joy http://www.henderson-lea.hc.k12tn.net/donahue/madison/smith/nca7-02.htm DEATH NOTICES FROM THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE 1880-1882, (OF THOSE PERSONS BORN UP TO AND INCLUDING THE YEAR 1830) By Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith Copyright, Jonathan K. T. Smith, 2000 January 31, 1880 VERNIA KENDALL daughter of Samuel and Delilah Lowry, born Union District, So. Carolina, May 17, 1826; married A. H. Kendall, April 14, 1842; died Hardin Co., Tenn., April 8, 1879; surviving were widower and several children. March 27, 1880 Dr.H. H. TOLAND, native of South Carolina, died San Francisco, California, February 27, 1880; "left a fortune of about two millions of dollars." STEPHEN FORD born Greenville District, So. Carolina, April 13, 1811; died in Union Co., Ga., December 21, 1879; married Sarah G. Dickerson, February 18, 1835; joined Methodist Church in 1865; "raised a large family of children." Apri1 3, 1880 MARGARET G. PORTER born Abbeville Dist., So. Carolina, April 18, 1801; married Hugh Porter in 1820; died Union Co., Miss., February 8, 1880. April 10, 1880 MARGARET W. HARRINGTON wife of Dr. John T. Harrington, daughter of the Rev. William Bell, born Darlington Dist., So. Carolina, March 6, 1821; died January 26, 1880 in Clay Co., Miss. ELIZABETH C.CRUSE born So. Carolina, December 24, 1802; moved to Sumner Co., Tenn. about 1807; married Drury Cruse, 1821 and moved to LaFayette Co., Miss. in 1839; died February 27, 1880. May 8, 1880 JONES BLAKE born in Virginia, August 29, 1805; moved to So. Carolina when young; married Elizabeth M. Allen in 1829; wife died in 1859; then married Mrs. Elizabeth L. Gulley; died April 8, 1880. May 29, 1880 The Rev. JOEL W.TOWNSEND, oldest member of South Carolina Methodist Conference, died Cokesbury, South Carolina, May 14, 1880. June 5, 1880 WILLIAM FOOT born So. Carolina, May 20, 1828; moved to Mississippi in 1845; died Tishomingo Co., Miss., March 11, 1880. June 19, 1880 OBADIAH W. WARD born Spartanburgh District, So. Carolina, December 14, 1817; died Gadsden, Ala., April 21, 1880; married Sarah Sedberry, August 8, 1850; had moved to Gadsden in the fall of 1868. June 26, 1880 MARGARET SMITH born Newberry Dist., So. Carolina, July 21, 1821; married Jacob Smith (died during Civil War, a Confederate), in 1846; died April 29, 1880 of pneumonia, Oakland, Alabama. July 3, 1880 The Rev. JOHN CHRIETZBERG born Charleston, So. Carolina, August 18, 1787; married Elizabeth Segrest in 1809; moved to Macon Co., Ala. about 1843; licensed to preach in the Methodist Church in 1850; died Elmore Co., Ala., Dec.15, 1879. MARY GARRET born in So. Carolina, February 24, 1824; moved to Ala. in 1838; joined Methodist Church in August 1840; married O. H. P. Wil1iams, December 9, 1842; died May 18, 1880.