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( Rev. J. J. JOhnson Retired Minister I Died Saturday" The Rev. J. Jeter Johnson, 88, a former pastor of the Canton First Church, died Sat- urday in. the Haywood County Hospital following a long illness. A native of Virginia, he had lived in North Carolina for the past 40 years. He had also ser- ved pastorates in Alabama, Ten- nessee, South Carolina, and North Carolina. He had served as mis- sionary to the Cherokee Indians for several years during his ac- tive ministry. The funeral service was held Monday at 11 a. m., in the Canton First Baptist Church, conducted by the pastor, the Rev. H. Edwin Young, the Rev. A. T. Usher and the Rev. Horace L. Smith. Burial . , was in the new Bon-A-Venture Cemetery. Surviving are two daughters, Miss CordeUa Johnson, a faculty member at Canton High School, with whom he made his home, and Mrs. Chester V. Strader of Greensboro; two sons, -Herbert W. of Winston-Salem and John Bradford Jonson with the U. S. Air Force in France, and three grandchildren. . ...J. ... l.c-;"-'-'··" ""- Canton Enterprise ......, Moore Co. News Chadbourn: Columbus Co. News Chapel Hill Weekly China Grove: Rowan Times- Herald Charlotte: Mecklenburg Times Cherryville Eagle Clayton News Clemmons: Courier Clinton: Sampson Independent Clinton: Sampsonian Cooleemee Journal Danbury Reporter Davidson: Gazette Denton: Davidson Record Dunn Dispatch APR 29 196 '.
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( Rev. J. J. JOhnson Retired Minister I Died Saturday"
The Rev. J. Jeter Johnson, 88, a former pastor of the Canton First B~t Church, died Saturday in. the Haywood County Hospital following a long illness.
A native of Virginia, he had lived in North Carolina for the past 40 years. He had also served pastorates in Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, and North Carolina. He had served as missionary to the Cherokee Indians for several years during his active ministry.
The funeral service was held Monday at 11 a. m., in the Canton First Baptist Church, conducted by the pastor, the Rev. H. Edwin Young, the Rev. A. T. Usher and the Rev. Horace L. Smith. Burial .,was in the new Bon-A-Venture Cemetery.
Surviving are two daughters, Miss CordeUa Johnson, a faculty member at Canton High School, with whom he made his home, and Mrs. Chester V. Strader of Greensboro; two sons, -Herbert W. of Winston-Salem and John Bradford Jonson with the U. S. Air Force in France, and three grandchildren. .
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Canton Enterprise ......, ~arthage: Moore Co. News
Chadbourn: Columbus Co. News
Chapel Hill Weekly China Grove: Rowan Times- Herald Charlotte: Mecklenburg Times
Cherryville Eagle Clayton News Clemmons: Courier Clinton: Sampson Independent Clinton: Sampsonian Cooleemee Journal Danbury Reporter Davidson: Gazette Denton: Davidson Record Dunn Dispatch
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THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH CANTON, N. C. 1803-1958
BY: May Holtzclaw 286.175694/H74
REV. R. A. SENTELLE
Pastor 1895-1897, 1899 REV. ]. R. OWEN
Pastor 1912-1914
REV. G. P. HAMRICK
Pastor 1914·1917 REV. ]. J . JOHNSON
Pastor 1919-1921
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