Died – Rev. John H Vannoy, at the residence of James Eller, Wilkies county, N. C. on the 27th day of Dec. 1889, aged 81 years.

Elder Vannoy was born Dec. 26, 1808, was of Huguenot descent, his ancestry having emigrated from France in the same ship bearing the ancestors of General Francis Marian. He had been a faithful minister of the gospel since the year 1847, and the writer remembers with distinctness the Elder’s first sermon at the old New Hope meeting house. He did not participate in the rebellion, and was the first farmer in his country to ride into town to offer up his horse and wait for orders, after the occupation of the country by the union army. He was county treasurer of Ashe for a number of years after the war, receiving about $150 for his services. It was all he charged. He was buried near Jefferson, Ashe county, on Dec. 29th. He has a large circle of acquaintances both north and south, and died with the full respect, esteem and confidence of all of them.

~~~Obituary courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska. ~~~

Note: his tombstone lists his death date as December 26th, 1889, and the current spelling is Wilkes County, North Carolina

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