Nell Depp Stark Eaton, 92, of Glasgow, Kentucky, died November 22, 2022. She was born in Metcalfe County, Kentucky, December 15, 1929, and professed her faith in Christ and joined Antioch Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery) in the Knob Lick community September 11, 1940. She was ten years old. By the time she was twelve, Nell was teaching Sunday school. She taught Sunday school for approximately 50 years both at Antioch CPC and Glasgow Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery). She served in various offices in Cumberland Presbyterian Women’s Ministry. Nell directed Glasgow CPC’s youth choir for many years and sang in the adult choir until she was 81 years old. A career educator, she began her education in the Clark’s Corner one room school and her first teaching position was in the Walnut Hill one room school. By the time she retired from the Glasgow Independent School System in May 1985, she had served as a guidance counselor for nineteen years.
About Matthew Gore
Matthew H. Gore is a British journalist, historian, popular culturist, archivist, and educator residing in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the immediate past-president of the Society of Tennessee Archivists and is best known for his book The History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kentucky to 1988 (2000). He has also published on a variety of topics as diverse as The Origin of Marvelman (a British superhero of the 1950s and 1960s), the relative scarcity of East German philatelics, and the biography of British pulp artist, Denis McLoughlin. He is employed by the Ministry Council of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at the Cumberland Presbyterian Center in Memphis, Tennessee, as editor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Magazine and as publications manager. He has been associated with both Western Kentucky University, which honored him with their James H. Poteet Award, and the University of Kentucky. He also serves as editor for all Boardman Books (Memphis, Tennessee) publications.
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