INDIAN BOTTOM ASSOCIATION
Of Old Regular Baptist of Jesus Christ
1928

OBITUARIES

Blair, S. R. - Whereas, it has pleased the great God of the universe in his all wise wisdom to call from suffering to rest our much beloved father S. R. Blair, who was horned February the 7th. 1855, and deceased February 16 1928. He was united in marriage to Martha Polly about the year of 1873. Unto them was horned 13 children. One is now dead the remaining 12 still living.He joined the Old Carr's Fork Church of Regular Baptist in the year of 1900 and lived in peace a devoted Christian life until death We feel that the church has lost a faithful Brother and a father it in Israel. He left a wife and twelve children and many friends to mourn his loss. But our loss is his eternal gain. He was a faithful husband and always mindful of the duties thus conferred upon him. Tie is gone and she is left alone in silent tears to lament in grief's relentless bond. The joys off a married life to her forever is gone. He was a kind and a loving father, always setting before his family Godly examples and we do hope that all of his children will come to know the Lord aright, from the least to the greatest and follow in the steps of a loving father and that they all may come into the circle of the church and it is to be hoped that his prayers will be answered and that they all may enlist for Jesus, and that they follow the steps of a God loving and God fearing father. He was strictly a Regular Baptist in doctrine and practice and we hope that his children will fill the place in the church, and be made to rejoice in the model church here on earth while their loving father is rejoicing in the presence of God, with the redeemed family. As he had the pleasure of seeing two of his sons join the church and was baptized into the fellowship of the Old Carr's Fork Church. We hope that they all will come rejoicing. How he suffered no tongue can tell, but bore it all with patience, reading: that the suffering of this present world is not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed. Let us bow in humble submission to the will of God, who doeth all things well. We feel that we have lost a faithful brother in the Lord, but our loss is his eternal gain. May God bless his widow in her lonely and lonesome hours, may she be made to rejoice in the love of Israel's God and may his blessings ever be with her and her children that they may become an unbroken family around the throne of God, where every sainted tear will be wiped away! is the prayer of the writer.
Please publish this obituary in our minutes in behalf of our father. Written by his son. Henry Blair