Thomas Jefferson Jolly

The following information is typed from a fax from Kentucky Wesleyan College, 3000 Frederica Street, Ownesboro, Kentucky 42301, 502-926-3111 Phone.  To: Rev John Vaught From: Richard Weiss, Archivist, August 25, 1998.

It appears to be from a periodical since there are advertisements as well as news articles.  There is a handwritten note "Central Methodist 1-12-11.  This is an obituary for Rev Jolly.

Thomas Jefferson Jolly

Thomas Jefferson Jolly was born January 10, 1828, died December 16, 1910.  He was married to Amanda Lee Jordan in 1853.  They lived happily together for 57 years.  

Brother Jolly was nearing his 83d year when the call came.  He had lived long and well, and the good he has done only eternity can reveal.  He will be greatly missed by the Bewleyville congregation where he has labored faithfully for many years.  He was superintendent of the Sunday school at the time of his death and has served in this office for more than thirty years.  It is quite certain that heart failure was the immediate cause of his death.  He was some distance from the house attending to his duties, when the end came and no person was present.  His faithful dog who refused to be separated from his master, was with him and stood on guard faithfully until an opportunity came for notifying a grandson some distance from the scene, which the dog did by barking, thus attracting his attention and then led the way to the spot where the body lay.

The leave taking of Brother Jolly was more a translation than death.  He had long before set his house in order had expressed himself as ready to go and only waiting for the summons.  He leaves an aged an enfeebled wife, a son and daughter and several grandchildren whose hearts have been made sad by this death.  We commend these to the care of our Heavenly Father, trusting that He may so guide, sustain and safeguard along life's way that at the end of the pilgrimage on earth there may be a happy meeting and reunion in the other and better world. 

I have had the privilege of knowing Brother Jolly little more than a year, but during that time I have been impressed most favorably by his splendid character.  Being a man of a high sense of honor, sober, clean, just and upright in all of his dealings and possessing a large amount of common sense and sound judgment made him a man whose counsel was both valued and sought after by his friends and acquaintances.  Best of all was his faith in God upon which he had built a Christian character which he guarded and preserved to the end.  Having filled with credit to himself and efficient service to others many important place in the Church militant, he is now gone to be enrolled in the Church triumphant.  His pastor, L. K. May.
Irvingtoin, Ky.