{"id":1026,"date":"2014-03-29T10:50:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T15:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgantn\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2014-04-06T17:53:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T22:53:41","slug":"peters-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/peters-james\/","title":{"rendered":"PETERS, James (d. 1874)"},"content":{"rendered":"

JAMES PETERS –\u00a01798 – 1874<\/strong><\/p>\n

JAMES PETERS\u00a0 was born Aug. 25, 1798, in Anderson County, East Tenn. and\u00a0\u00a0died at his home in Morgan County, Tenn.,\u00a0 Feb. 8, 1874.\u00a0 He was a son of Tobias Peters, a local preacher at whose house many of the pioneer preachers of Methodism lodged and preached.<\/p>\n

He was happily married in his twenty-fourth year to Rachel McCart, by whom was born to him six sons and seven daughters- all of whom lived to be grown and became members of the Methodist Church.\u00a0 Two of his sons are traveling preachers—the writer of the Louisville, Ky., Conference, and Adam Clark Peters of the Holston Conference of the M. E. church.\u00a0 Three of his nephews are Methodist Ministers in Missouri— one, the Rev. T.M. Cobb, is stationed at Lexington, Missouri, the other two are local, one is a delegate elect to the ensuing General Conference.\u00a0 These are sons of his sister Polly Cobb.\u00a0 I mention these facts to show how Methodistic the family is.\u00a0 I know of but one of all my father\u2019s relatives who is not a Methodist.<\/p>\n

He was a man of very deep piety; he was an exhorter and class leader for more than fifty years, and was one of the most able men in prayer I have ever heard.\u00a0 He kept up family prayer from the time he became a house-keeper till his death.\u00a0 His house was a preaching place for thirty years.\u00a0 He had fed thousands of worshipers.\u00a0 As a husband he filled the divine law; as a father he was faithful and king; as a Christian he believed God and walked uprightly.\u00a0 He was a man of very fine natural mind, and while his education was limited he was a delightful reader and read much.<\/p>\n

A short time before he died he called the writer\u2019s name many times and that of his youngest son–he wished much to see his preacher sons, before he died.\u00a0 He was fond of poetry and music; and just before he died he repeated distinctly these lines:
\n” Bright scenes of Glory strike my sense,
\nAnd all my passions capture;
\nEternal beauties \u2018round me shine,
\nInfusing warmest rapture.
\nI dive in oceans, deep and full,
\nThat swell in waves of Glory;
\nI feel my Savior in my soul,
\nAnd groan to tell my story.”<\/p>\n

He leaves his beloved Rachel waiting by the shore.\u00a0 She is looking for the angels.\u00a0 Farewell Father.\u00a0 I thank God for giving me such a father. \u00a0 \u00a0We shall meet again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JAMES PETERS –\u00a01798 – 1874 JAMES PETERS\u00a0 was born Aug. 25, 1798, in Anderson County, East Tenn. and\u00a0\u00a0died at his home in Morgan County, Tenn.,\u00a0 Feb. 8, 1874.\u00a0 He was a son of Tobias Peters, a local preacher at whose house many of the pioneer preachers of Methodism lodged and preached. He was happily married… Continue reading PETERS, James (d. 1874)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,96],"tags":[86,302],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-obituary","tag-mccart","tag-peters","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/morgan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}