Text from Scott, Laurence W. (editor), Texas Pulpit by Christian
Preachers. St. Louis: Christian Publishing Company, 1888. Pages 388-389.
This online edition © 1996, James L. McMillan. Used by permission. Union
County.

JACOB C. MASON was born in Union county, Ky., January 10th, 1845. He was
educated at Princeton, Ky. He married Miss Lizzie J. Kelly at Hillsboro,
Illinois, in 1865, and two years later moved to Arkansas. He was bereaved
of his good wife about two years ago, but he has left to comfort him his
venerable and pious mother and his dutiful Christian daughter. He was
baptized at Irving, Ill., in 1863, during a meeting held by Brother B. B.
Tyler; but, there being no congregation of disciples at Irving, he never
held membership anywhere till he established a church in White county,
Arkansas. His father moved to that county in 1868, and a Bible class was
soon started in his house, with Jacob as teacher. The result was the
evolution of a church and three preachers, one of whom is the subject of
this sketch. 

After preaching in White and adjoining counties for several years, he
moved to Okolona, where he resided five years. He labored for the Okolona
and Prescott congregations for awhile, then served as State evangelist for
three years. While acting in that capacity, he planted a church at
Texarkana, for which he has preached over five years. He is a wonderful
worker. He began at Texarkana with a few members, and no house of worship,
and now has a church of 200 members and a comfortable chapel lighted by
electricity. Bro. Mason's address is Texarkana, Ark., where he has a
comfortable home, though his church-house is on the Texas side of the
line, which admits him into the "TEXAS PULPIT." 

Mason Kelly
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Princeton-Caldwell-KY IL White-AR

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