SADLER.--Rev. A. M. Sadler was born in North Carolina March 21, 1814, and died April 13, 1899. His parents were Thomas and Lucy Sadler. His mother died when he was only six years old. His father emigrated to Jefferson county, Alabama, about the year 1819, and settled where the present city of Bessamer now stands. Brother Saddler professed religion in the spring of 1832, and joined the Hopewell congregation of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. He became a candidate for the ministry under the care of the Elyton Presbytery in the fall of 1832. He was transferred to the Talladega Presbytery in 1833, where he was licensed and ordained. His education was limited, but he was a great and good man. He was the oldest Cumberland Presbyterian minister in the State, and the last one of James Gutherie's sons of thunder. And like Gutherie, Robert Donnell and the other fathers of our church, he did much traveling and preaching; spending eleven years in succession in this grand work. Many will rise up in the judgment and call him blessed.

Brother Sadler was married twice, and was the father of thirteen children. He was a patient, kind, and indulgent parent, making his home happy. He leaves eight children, the Church, and a host of friends to mourn their loss. The much loved S. A. Sadler of Loudon, Tenn., being the youngest child of his first wife. All of his childred are devoted members of the church their father loved and labored for, some of them filling responsible places in the church was much honor, and with the zeal of their sainted father. He was buried in the Five Mile cemetery, near the Five Mile church to which he belonged. The writer conducted the funeral. A large concourse of friends followed the good man and servant of God to his grave. "Blessed are the dead who died in the Lord, from henceforth; yea, saith the Spirit; that they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them."
JOHN S. HALL.
[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, June 1, 1899, page 702]

[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1899, page 165a]