Rev Daniel Thatcher Lake was born in Tennessee July 2nd, 1828, was of Presbyterian ancestry paternally and Methodist Maternally. Converted at the age of twenty and united with the M.E. Church, South, and was licensed to preach Oct. 27, 1855. This license bears the signature of J. N. Hamil of the North Texas Conference. Recommended to the annual conference Oct. 5th, 1861; this recommendation bears the signature of J. E. Rabb, who is still living near Lone Oak, Hunt County, Texas. In 1876, he cast his lot with the Methodist Protestant Church, where he served as circuit rider, secretary and president. In 1880, he located on account of feeble health, at Sulphur Bluff, Hopkins County, Texas, where he died December 7, 1891, and where his devoted companion and three children reside. Though located, he continued to be useful to the church, was a man of sound judgement and liberal views, and was generous with his means. The Conference loved and respected him as a father. Being left an orphan at an early age, he learned in his early struggles for support and an education, those lessons of self-denial that fitted him for usefullness in after life. Beginning in public life as a school teacher in Mississippi in 1850, where he taught two years, then he came to Texas where he taught eight years. In 1862, he entered the Confederate service, Patterson's Company, Whitfield's legion, where he served ten months as nurse. He and Miss Mary Griffis were married December 11th, 1851, in Mississippi. She died in 1872 and her remains lie six miles West of Canton, Texas. March 12, 1874, he married Miss Emma Jacobs, the now bereaved widow. His domestic life seems to have been of the most pleasant nature. His autobiography abounds in pleasant reminiscences of his domestic, army and ministeral (here one line unreadable) at the time of death. We shall miss him in our annual meetings, and be sad when the dead roll is called and his name is entered on the list, and we are reminded that he whom we loved so well has answered the last call and gone to join the great assembly. While he was loved and honored by the church of his choice, the same could be said in regard to his neighbors. He may have had such faults as are common to men; but he possessed those noble traits of character that endeared him to us all. Loyal to the church of his choice, he cherished tender recollections of the church he had left, which, with him, was purely a matter of principle. Equal rights were in harmony with his generous nature. Signed James L. Lawlis Paul R. DAFFT (PDafft@Juno.Com) 1605 Cottonwood Road Carrollton, Texas, 75006-3856