Hogg,.--At a meeting of the session of Friends Creek congregation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, a committee was appointed to draft an expression of the esteem in which our late pastor, the Rev. J. N. Hogg, is held by our people, with power to add to its number representatives from the ridge and Cisco congregations to join in said report. In pursuance thereof, your committee, joined by representatives of the congregations named, respectfully present the following:

Your committee has not the material at hand to enable them to present a detailed statement of the services of our late pastor. Suffice it to say that he was born in Marshall county, Tenn., and spent thirty five years of his life in the ministry, and died at his late residence at Bethany, Ill., at the age of fifty-seven years. Of the lst six years of his life we are prepared to speak somewhat in detail. Most of this latter period he was went "in and out" among us as our beloved pastor, and we earnestly desire to place on record before the world and his numerous friends our testimony in regard to his earnest, energetic, and most valuable services rendered in our behalf and that of our blessed Master. His ministration was blessed by a large increase of membership to the congregation here at Friends Creek. He built up and ordained the church at the ridge, and was largely instrumental in building up the church at Cisco, and there are doubtless many enrolled in other churches in our vicinity who date their happy change to his ministration. We mourn our loss, we deplore the sad dispensation of Providence that has deprived us, the church, and the world of his inestimable services in the cause of the Master. But "he who doeth all things well" has called him to rest from his labor, and we humbly submit, as becometh us, and cry, "Thy will be done." We wish to express our heart-felt sympathy with his bereaved wife and children, and by way to condolence would say that it is only for a little while that you will be separated. A few years at most and you will again be united in those bright mansions where there will be no more separation or death, and where there will be no more sorrow. We recommend that a suitable memorial of the labors of Brother Hogg be recorded in the record book of the congregations represented by your committee, and a copy thereof be sent to presbytery, with a request that it be spread on the Minutes of that body. That a coy be sent to each of the church papers for publication, and that a copy be sent to his bereaved wife and family. Respectfully submitted this 25th day of August, 1889.

T. H. Barr,
Caleb Hedges,
Andrew Wilson,
R. M. Machan,
John T. Stuart,
B. C. Graves,
E. B. Smith, Committee.

[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, October 10, 1889, page 8]

1890
The List of the Deceased.
J. N. Hogg - Decatur Presbytery - July, 1889
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1890, page 38]