WAGONER, John Hunter

Minutes of the Seventy-Second Annual Session
Sandusky Conference of the Church of the United 
Brethren in Christ,
held at Bowling Green, Ohio
September 21-25, 1904.

Published by Order of the conference

Dayton, Ohio
United Brethren Publishing House
1904

	John H. Wagoner was born in Dekalb County, Indiana, August 5,1862,
and died in Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio, June 15, 1904, aged 
forty-one years, ten months, and ten days. He was the oldest son in his
father's family, and when quite young, because of the death of his father,
he was left in charge as the responsible head of the family. This
responsibility he assumed and quite manfully discharged. When about 
twenty-one years of age he was converted, and identified himself with the
United Brethren Church; and on September 7-11 he joined the North Ohio 
Conference, at Churubusco, Indiana, Bishop E. B. Kephart presiding. He 
completed the three years' course of reading in two years, and was 
ordained by Bishop Kephart at Pleasant Lake, Indiana, in September, 1894.
Brother Wagoner served the following named charges in North Ohio
Conference:  Northwest Mission, one year; Branch Mission, two years;
Mt. Pleasant, one year; Stryker, one year. Then, because of physical 
disabilities, he asked for and obtained a local relation. He reentered 
the active work at the Conference of 1898, and was assigned to Moresville 
charge, which he served faithfully one year, when he was again sent to 
Stryker. In 1900 he was again compelled, because of defective hearing, to
retire. He continued his residence in Stryker until April 1, 1902, when
he removed to Bowling Green, Ohio. The ministry of this good man was when 
and where the Church suffered most from those who became dissatisfied 
because of the Commission act, and refused to accept the same. He, however,
maintained his composure, with loyalty and manly dignity.
He was united in marriage with Miss Bertha L. George, at Coldwater, 
Michigan, November 7, 1893. To them were born two children, who, with
their mother, are left to mourn the loss of a good husband and father. 
He died in possession of "that peace which passeth all understanding."

Submitted by John Deal Wagoner     JDWAGONER@aol.com