Ministers Lost By Death

J. H. Standifer (Lic.) - Corsicana-Waco Presbytery - Jan. 30, 1915

[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1915, page 216]

John Hogue Standifer came from Alabama and settled in Bosque County in 1865. He had been made an elder in the church in Alabama in 1851, when he was twenty-four years of age. His wife, who was formerly Miss Martha Swinney, was of a family of strong Cumberland Presbyterians of Cherokee County, Alabama, to whom the Rev. Robert Donnell had ministered. J. H. Standifer became a leader in the religious activities at Rock Church and served for many years as superintendent of the Sunday school. He attended camp meeting at Rock Church twenty-four years in succession, camping each year on the same spot. When he was eighty-four years of age, being unable to attend presbytery, he petitioned the presbytery to grant him a license to exhort. The presbytery granted him a license to preach instead. He died January 30, 1915. A son, S. R. Standifer, and a grandson, S. R. Estes, are ministers in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

Source: Campbell, Thomas H. History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Texas. Nashville, Tenn.: Cumberland Presbyterian Publishing House, 1936, page 115]