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Rev John Thomas Welch

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Birth	:	8 Oct 1853 Boone County, Missouri, USA
Death	:	31 Jan 1896 Boerne, Kendall County, Texas, USA
Burial	:	Shelbyville Masonic Cemetery, Shelbyville, Shelby County, USA
Coordinate	:	39.8081100, -92.0465600
Description	:	Son of David C. Welch and Rebecca Dawson. REV. JOHN T. WELCH (Minister of the Christian Church, Shelbyville). The family of which the subject of the present sketch is a representative was one of the first to settle in Monroe county. Rev. Mr. Welch's grandfather, Thomas Welch, came here with his family in about 1835, and located at Paris. Thomas Welch was a man of marked intelligence and good education, was a school teacher in fact, for a number of years, and is believed to have taught the first school, certainly one of the first ones, ever kept at... Read More	Son of David C. Welch and Rebecca Dawson. REV. JOHN T. WELCH (Minister of the Christian Church, Shelbyville). The family of which the subject of the present sketch is a representative was one of the first to settle in Monroe county. Rev. Mr. Welch's grandfather, Thomas Welch, came here with his family in about 1835, and located at Paris. Thomas Welch was a man of marked intelligence and good education, was a school teacher in fact, for a number of years, and is believed to have taught the first school, certainly one of the first ones, ever kept at Paris. He died in this county at an advanced age in about 1870. David Welch, the father of Rev. John T., was some 10 years of age when his parents removed to Missouri. After he grew up he was married to Miss Rebecca Dawson, and subsequently resided in different counties in this State and in Arkansas, but finally settled permanently in Dallas county, where he is still living. Near the beginning of our late Civil War he enlisted as a soldier and for almost four years he wore the gray. A portion of the time he served his regiment as Quartermaster. Rev. John T. Welch was born while his parents resided in Boone county and on the 8th of October, 1853. He was principally reared, however, in Saline county, where his parents made their home for some years during his boyhood and youth. He early formed the purpose to devote himself to the ministry and qualified himself at school with that object in view. After completing the courses of the common and intermediate schools he matriculated at the State University, where he studied the higher branches included in the curriculum of general education. He studied theology at the Christian University at Canton Mo., where he took a complete course and graduated among the first in his class in 1881. He was duly ordained a minister of the Christian Church and on completing his theological education at the university, entered at once actively and regularly into the work of the ministry. He came to Shelby county in August of the same year of his graduation and for one year following preached as a county evangelist. Since that time he has preached for the church at Shelbyville as its pastor and for other churches in the county. Rev. Mr. Welch is a man of earnest piety, sterling, superior ability, and fine mental culture, both general and theological, and already has established a wide and enviable reputation as an able and successful minister and eloquent, popular preacher. If spared to run the ordinary course of nature, his life can hardly fail to prove one of great value to his church, to the cause of Christianity, and to the welfare and happiness of those among whom it is spent. His future certainly seems one of bright promise. On the 20th of May, 1884, Rev. Mr. Welch was married to Miss Mettle Mitchell, a refined and accomplished daughter of Thomas Mitchell, present county clerk of Shelby county. History of Monroe and Shelby Counties, Missouri; St. Louis: National Historical Company, 1884, Pages 952 and 953 Rev. J. T. Welch, well known in this county died January 31 in Texas. He was a good man, a faithful minister and we are sorry to have to chronicle his death. Shelbina Democrat (Shelbina, MO), 1896-02-05, page 8, column 3 LOCAL. —Rev. John R. Welch, who died in Texas last Friday, leaves a policy of $2,000 in the Banker's Life Insurance Co. for the benefit of his wife and children. Frank Dimmitt of this city has looked after the insurance for Mr. Welch ever since he left here for Texas. Shelby County Herald, Shelbyville, Missouri, 05 Feb 1896, Page 4, Column 1 Information on file with Shelby County Historical Society & Museum

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Rev John Thomas Welch's memorial is located at: Shelbyville Masonic Cemetery, Shelbyville, Shelby County, USA.
When did Rev John Thomas Welch death?
Rev John Thomas Welch death on 31 Jan 1896 in Boerne, Kendall County, Texas, USA
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Latitude: 39.8081100
Longitude: -92.0465600

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Mettie Tom Mitchell Welch

(1859 - 1937)

Siblings

Children

Everett Leroy “Lee” Welch

(1890 - 1953)

Anita Welch Gilchrist-Heffner

(1895 - 1975)

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