Laban Pilkenton

Laban Pilkenton, son of Anthony and Rebecca Pilkenton, died at his residence in Titus County, 
Texas November 14, 1875. 

He was born in Wake County, North Carolina October 22, 1803. He joined the Baptist Church 
at Holly Springs in his eighteenth year and was elected clerk of the church, in which capacity he 
served until he emigrated with his father to Pike County, Georgia and attached himself to 
Concord Baptist Church, was ordained deacon, then licensed to the ministry, in which he spent 
his time; was ordained and set apart to the ministry by Juniper Baptist Church in Talbot County, 
Georgia, giving his time and talent wholly to the ministry till the time of his death, serving faithfully 
as a minister about forty years.... At his request his remains were carried to Cass County, to the 
residence of his eldest son, and there deposited at Sardis, in the churchyard of Hopewell Baptist 
Church, of which he had been pastor, by the Masonic fraternity.

Signed: M. R. Pilkenton, Hickory Hill, Cass County, Texas. December 31, 1875

{Information found in the August 1953 "Footprints" quarterly published by the Fort Worth Genealogical Society.]