A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for James Wilson Brents
From Find A Grave (listing for James Wilson "Jim" Brents):
Gospel preacher. Bio in Gospel Advocate, May 7, 1942, 444. Co-founder, along with A. R. Holton, of the Blue Ridge Encampment in North Carolina. He attended Georgie Robertson Christian College in Henderson, TN. Gospel Advocate, Nov. 21, 1963, 746.
"My wife's daddy, J. W. Brents, baptized Brother Dixon, when he was a young boy. Daddy Jim told me about holding this meeting in a tent. He said he preached his heart out and the only baptism was a little tow-headed boy. He thought his time was wasted and his meeting a failure but the little boy turned out to be Brother Dixon. Before Daddy Jim passed away he had decided it was one of his best and most fruitful meetings." ---John W. Wilson, Gospel Advocate, Jan. 15, 1970, 38.
J. W. Brents, veteran gospel preacher, died at 3 P.M., in Nashville, Tenn., October 20. Brother Brents was seventy-nine years old. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at the University church of Christ in Nashville by H. Clyde Hale. An extended notice will follow.-Editor. ---Gospel Advocate, Oct. 31, 1963, 692. Cf. Preachers of Today, Vol. 1, 1951, 47.
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