Mrs. Sallie STOUT BOGLE, daughter of Allan and Sallie WRIGHT LINK STOUT, one of a family of eleven children, was born at Limestone, Tennessee. Her father’s home was the home of the Methodist itinerant and his famiy [sic]. It was in this way that she knew so well of our early ministers. At an early age she was converted and joined the church, Urbania, at Limestone, under the pastorate of Rev. Andrew Jackson FRAZIER.
Sallie STOUT was always active in church work, and through these activities she met Rev. E. H. BOGLE who had become her pastor. Rev. BOGLE and Miss Sallie STOUT were married in Greeneville, Tennessee, August 24, 1897. Mrs. BOGLE was in complete accord with her husband’s ideals and purposes, deeply interested in the church she loved so well. She was devoted to her step-children and tried to rear them in the knowledge of the Lord. She shared with Mr. BOGLE the labors of the pastorates of Warrensburg, Jonesboro, Fall Branch, East Tazewell, Auburn and Floyd circuits. Upon his retirement in 1907, they came to Bristol to make their home. They became active members of State Street Church. After a few months they bought a small home on East State, where on the 26th of December, 1914, her loved and honored husband passed away.
After his death, she struggled along in the little home where they had been so happy. Through her thrift and industry, she lived and saved for her church. Happy to be able to give when the urgent call came for $1200 to rebuild a mission chapel in Cuba. She was an active member of the Missionary Society since its organization and was greatly interested in the W. C. T. U., attended and received certificates in every Christian Education Training School conducted at State Street Church until two years ago.
Mrs. BOGLE had a collegiate education but she constantly added to her knowledge by much and diversified reading. She carefully read the newspapers, new religious books, magazines and the church periodicals. The Bible was her handbook, her daily companion. She possessed great faith and an indomitable spirti [sic]. Hers was the simple life. She was unassuming and modest, yet strong and decided on all questions of right.
She had been ill for two years, but critically ill for two months before her dath [sic], when she suffered a slight cerebral hemorrhage. Though she rallied for a few days, she gradually grew worse until seven o’clock in the evening of August 18, 1938, her spirit took its flight to the Father.
The funeral services were conducted by her pastor, Dr. J. S. FRENCH, and Dr. J. Emerson HICKS in the chapel of the Huff-Cook funeral home. Her body rests peacefully beside that of her husband in East Hill Cemetery, in Bristol, Tennessee. The floral tributes were exquisitely beautiful and the music of favorite hymns by State Street quartette was especially appropriate and impressive.
“E’en down to old age, my people shall prove
My sovereign, eternal, unchangeable love.”
Mrs. A. M. PORTERFIELD
Source: Methodist Episcopal Church. Official Journal of the Holston Annual Conference of the Methodist Church. 1940.
