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Submitted: 5/18/16 • Approved: 4/22/21 • Last Updated: 4/25/21 • R1140931-G0-S3
Aug 9, 1873 - Sept 21, 1957
Dr. J. S. Compere will long be remembered in Current River Association for his work of love in the part of the Master's Kingdom. He was born in Charleston Ark., August 9, 1873. His mother was Isabella Mullins, and his father was Ebenezer Lee Compere who came to Western Arkansas as a Missionary in 1866. He entered Ouachita College in 1892 with no notion of studying for the ministry for he was not a Christian at that time. But in 1893 he was converted and baptized into the fellowship of the First Baptist Church of Arkadelphia. He attended Mercer University one term, but was graduated from Ouachita with the degree of "A.B." in the class of 1901. He was ordained to the ministry by the first Baptist church of Arkadelphia January 2, 1901. He was graduated from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary with the degree of "Th.M." in 1903. Ouachita College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1919.
He was married to Pen Lile of Waldo, Arkansas, June 7, 1896. To them were born seven children, five of whom lived to be adults. Their only son, J. S., Jr., was also a minister. Dr. and Mrs. Compere went to Nigeria, Africa as missionaries under the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention in 1905 and continued there until 1909 when Mrs. Compere's failing health forced them to come home.
He has served as head of the Bible Department in Ouachita College, assistant general secretary of the Arkansas Baptist Convention, Editor of the Baptist Advance, and pastor of the following churches: Warren, Fordyce, Lewisville, Stamps, Charleston, Mo., Hayti, Mo., and Corning. He was pastor of the Corning church from 1934 - 1939, and during his last year he led the church in the erection of the previous house of worship. He retired from active ministry and made his home in Corning doing some pulpit supply. He preached the sermon for the Current River Baptist Association in 1936 and again in 1938. He was vice-moderator from 1934 to 1936.
--A History of the Current River Baptist Association (1947), by Leroy Carson Tedford
Spouse:
Sally Rice Lile Compere (1876 - 1948)
Children:
James Seth Compere (1908 - 1979)
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