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Tennessee, in 1857 to minister to the Clarksville and adjacent churches for a time. Rev. Stone, after a short ministry at Clarksville, went to the City of San Antonio to start a mission. After a year's labors there, he returned to Clarksville in September, 1861, and served a Clarksville church until his death, November 14, 1862. He ministered to the Stones Chapel Church, five miles from Clarksville, and it commemorates his name to this day. A number of the posterity of A. M. Stone are members of the Clarksville Presbyterian Church of today.

Cumberland Presbyterianism and the Presbyterian Church organization would, indeed, be incomplete without the notice, love and respect paid to the Templeton family. The name Templeton is recorded in the early Synods of Texas.

Johnson Dysart came to Clarksville in 1856 and ministered in Red River Presbytery until his death in 1886. In 1860 he led in the erection of a church in Clarksville that stood for forty years. He gave one son to the ministry, Dickson Dysart. A daughter, Miss Ida, for thirty-four years was most successful in conducting the primary department of the Clarksville Sunday school.

Josiah G. Harris came to Clarksville in 1859, and ministered in Red River Presbytery for quite a long while. He died in 1897, at the age of eighty years, two and one-half miles southwest from Clarksville, near his private chapel, known today as Harris' Chapel, and was buried there.

Rev. James Sampson, a literary


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The History of Clarksville and Old Red River County
Pat B. Clark   1937