Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1901 — Ends Fifty Years’ Ministry. [ARTICLE]

Ends Fifty Years’ Ministry.

Because of failing health Rev. William C. Barker of Cook’s Mills, north of Mattoon, Hl., a lineal descendant of King Charles 11. of England, has retired from the active ministry after more than fifty years’ service. He was born May 2, 1830, in Washington county, Virginia, and ordained at the age oi 17. He preached with marked suc-> cess in Virginia and Tennessee and served with distinction in the civil war. He was captured and imprisoned in the Confederate prisons at Nashville, Tenn., and Bowling Green, Ky.