1850-1911
Adoniram Judson Ives
Methodist Minister Illinois IL
The Reverend Adoniram Judson Ives was born on July 16, 1850, to Titus and Hannah B. Ives in Canada and received his education at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington.
While there he met Miss Kenedy of Hull, Ill., who was also a student there, and after his graduation they were married. He has filled [Methodist] pastorates at Concord, Chatham, Edinburg, Neoga, Humboldt, Charleston, Rosemond, Heyworth, Weedman and Versailles [Illinois]. He took a supernumary relation with the [Methodist] conference in 1906 and moved on a farm in Arkansas on account of ill health. He leaves a wife, one son and one daughter.[1]
Adoniram Judson Ives at one point was in charge of the Charleston Methodist Episcopal circuit. He died on January 9, 1911, in Arkansas, and is buried at Akers Chapel Cemetery, Hull, IL. An oddity occurred at the passing of Rev. Ives:
Word was received in this city yesterday that a brother of the late Rev. A. J. Ives is at the point of death in Kansas. Rev. Mr. Ives died suddenly at his home in this city [Stuttgart, AR] Monday afternoon, just one week after the death of an elder brother in Massachusetts…. Ten days ago all of the brothers, six in number, were alive. Two are now dead and two are not expected to live long, the death of the one in Kansas being momentarily expected. Rev. Mr. Ives was the youngest brother, being slightly past 60 years of age at the time of this death.[2]
And the influence of Rev. Adoniram Judson Ives went beyond those involved in his Methodist ministry.
State Holiness Association Hold Appropriate Exercises for Dead of the Past Year. At 10 o’clock yesterday morning the annual memorial services were held by the Illinois Holiness association at the state fair grounds in Machinery hall. The service was dedicated to the members of the association who have died during the past year. They are the Rev. A. J. Ives, a Methodist minister,…[3]
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[1] “Rev. A. J. Ives Dies at Stuttgart, Ark.,” Daily Illinois State Register (Springfield, IL), January 12, 1911, p. 2.
[2] “Strange Fatality Follows,” Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, AR), January 12, 1911, p. 2.
[3] “Memorial Services at Fair Grounds,” Daily Illinois State Register (Springfield, IL), August 6, 1911, p. 3.