sentences:  For nearly twenty-five years, he remained a professor at Emory University's Candler School of Theology, until his death from a heart attack on March 16, 1939.Following Sledd's funeral, his body was buried in the Decatur Cemetery.In his 1960 "History of Methodism in Alabama and West Florida", Marion Elias Lazenby remembered Sledd as "one of the [Methodist] Church's most scholarly and reverent teachers."