Liberty County, Georgia - Chapter 9: Ministers of the Gospel, 1903

Chapter 9: Ministers of the Gospel

But the greatest honor put upon the church and colony is the great number of ministers that have gone out from them, and their descendants, there being fifty Presbyterians, seventeen Baptists, thirteen Methodists, and one Episcopalian, making a total of eighty-one, as appears from the following list: resident of Erskine College, Due West, S C., of the Associate Reiormed Church, was ori in Greene county, Ga., in 1776. Over the grave of this mother, Margaret Grier, who lies in the Sardis burying ground, Mecklenburg, N.C., is a head stone, with this inseription: ''The mother of the first Presbyterian minister born in Georgia, - Spragnes' Annals, Vol. 1X, P. 110.

the son of Thomas Goulding and Margaret Stacy, (grand aunt of the writer), was born in Liberty county March 14, 1786, dedidated to the Lord in baptism June 25th of the same year, received into Midway church, with thirteen others, April 29, 1810, taught school at Sunbury and Baisden's ©

Bluff, in McIntosh county, licensed by Harmony Presbytery October 31, 1813, ordained and installed pastor of White Bluff church, near Savannah, January 27, 1816, and supplying the same till 1822, removing then to Lexington, Ga., © where he remained for eight years, and where he exerted an influence over some of the first minds in the state, which is now telling and will forever tell on the best interests of men. Among others while here, he received into the church the Chief Justice, Joseph Henry Lumpkin, who afterwards became his ruling elder for a number of years. While at Lexington he also established and taught a Theological class for one year, when being elected professor of Ecclesiastical History and Church Government in Columbia Theological Seminary in 1828, to which he removed and where he remained till January, 1835, when he became pastor of the church at Columbus, Ga., and which position he filled till his death June 21, 1848, and leaving among others, a son who became a minister, and two daughters who became ministers' wives; one the wife of Rev. William M. Reid, of South Carolina, and the other of Rev. Francis McMurray, of Georgia. By the appointment of the General Assembly, which divided the Synod of South Carolina, he preached the opening sermon at the meeting of the Synod of Georgia at Macon November 20, 1845, and was elected its first moderator. At the time of his death he was in the sixty-third year of his age, and the thirty-fifth of his ministry.

The son of Thomas and Rebecca Quarterman and grand son of that remarkable man, John Quarterman, one of the original settlers, was born in Liberty county January 13, 1787, baptized February 4th of the same year, received into Midway church June 10, 1809, with five others, elected as

Rev. Daniel Baker, D.D.

Beacon oF the church November 23, 1811, captain of the ey aberty Infantry, encamped at Darien, at one time during _ the war of 1812, received as a candidate of Harmony Presbytery at White Bluff, licensed by said Presbytery November 19, 1819, at Columbia, South Carolina, ordained pastor of Midway church May 27, 1823, by Georgia Presbyry,! and continued pastor for twenty-six years, in the aithful discharge of his duty, honored and reverenced by all, until impaired health in 1847 constrained him to tender his resignation, which the people of his charge reluctantly accepted, at the same time, however, voting him the position of ''Honorary pastor," with an annuity of $300 till his _ death, which occurred April 19, 1849. His remains were buried in Midway cemetery. He was the first native pastor born in the colony after the removal from Carolina, Mr. Osgood being the only one in that state. It has been said _ of him, "Take him all in all and his equal was rarely found." _ A man of fine physique, in theology sound, his preaching ' olid, his life consistent, his end calm and peaceful. Four of his sons became ministers, one of whom a Foreign Missionary, two of his daughters ministers' wives, one of whom wasa missionary to China for sixteen years.

_ Was born in Liberty county August 17,1791, and baptized _ October 2d of the same year. He was the son of William Baker, a deacon in Midway church - his grand-father, Wil- - Tiam Baker, being also a deacon. His mother was Elizabeth Dunham. He was received into the College church Hampden Sidney April 9, 1805, while at school there, though he said he believed he was converted at Midway when about ' 14 years of age.2 Entered the junior class and graduated at Princeton in 1815. Licensed by Winchester Presbytery at _ Leesburg, Va., 1816 - supplying the churches in Rockingham county till ecdaincd and settled in Harrisonburg, Va., March 5, 1818. While at Harrisonburg, taught ethook having among his pupils Gessner Harrison and Henry Tutwilder,

# aN Formed from Harmony Presbytery, by Syd of South Carolina and gears, at its 4 ad at Washington, Wilkes county, Noy. 7, 1821. 2. Life by his son, P. 34

University of Virginia, and the latter in the LaGrange College, Alabama. Left Virginia in 1821 and became pastor of the Second Church at Washington, D. C., where he remained until 1828, where he became pastor of the Independent Presbyterian Church of Savannah, Ga., where he remained which time traveling extensively over the country, holding protracted meetings. The results of these missionary labors, eternity will alone reveal. As the fruit of one single meeting held at Beaufort, S.C.,in 1831, eight ministers went out.1 Among the number of converts, were Rey. Dr. Richard Fuller, of the Baptist church; Rev. Stephen Elliott, Episcopal Bishop of Georgia, and Hon. R. W. Barnwell, member ~ of Congress and president of South Carolina College. He published a little work, ''Baptism in a Nutshell," "Affectionate Addresses to Fathers and Mothers,'' and also a volume of ''Revival Sermons.'' The last few years of his life he spent in establishing and endowing the Presbyterian College at Austin, Texas, of which he was it first president. After forty-one years of successful labor, he died at Austin, Texas, December 10, 1857; leaving among other children, three sons, who also become ministers.

9, 1805, received into Midway church November 28, 1823, with twenty-seven others. Studied under Dr. MeWhir at Sunbury, licensed by New Brunswick Presbytery, (N. J.) in - the spring of 1830. Ordained by Georgia Presbytery November 27, 1831; elected and continued stated supply of the First Presbyterian Church, Savannah, Ga., for the year till November, 1832, when he became missionary to the colored people of Liberty county; elected professor of Ecclesiastical History in the Theological Seminary at Columbia, S. C., in 1836; returned to Liberty county to his work elected to the office, he became successor to Dr. W. A. Mcthe old undivided church), and residing at Philadelphia until the fall of 1853, when his health failing he returned to his home in Liberty county, laboring as he could among the col-

Dr. Jones will be handed down to future generations as the "'Apostle to the colored people."" While laboring among them, he wrote a book on the 'Religious Instruction of the Negroes,"' in addition his annual reports, which were widely circulated and read. He also prepared a catechism for their

_ oral instruction, which was generally used in the South, and which has been translated into different heathen languages for the use of foreign missionaries. His chief work is his "Church of God," published after his death by hisson. He left three children - the eldest, Hon. Charles C. Jones, Jr., LL. D., a distinguished writer and an author of several works, among them, a history of Georgia; the second, Dr. Joseph Jones, a physician, and for years professor in the Tulane Medical College at New Orleans, and a daughter, who became the wife of Rev. R. Q. Mallard, D. D., of New Orleans.

Son of Elias and Sarah (Jones) Cassels, born at Cannouchee, Liberty county, February 24,1806; received into Midway church March 2, 1823; graduated at Athens August 6,

_ 1828, with the highest academic honors; licensed by Hopewell Presbytery, and ordained by the same at Augusta, Ga., February 17, 1829; settled at Washington, Ga., in 1832,

~ installed pastor of the church at Macon, Ga., in 1837; removed to Norfolk, Va., and became pastor of the church at that place i in 1841. fis health failing, removed to Savannah,.Ga., in the spring of 1846, from that time principal of 'the Chatham Academy till his death - June 15, 1853.

'"'Southern Presbyterian"' over the nom de plume, '"'Paul the Prisoner.'' In accordance with his request, he was buried in ~ Midway cemetery. At the centennial of the old church December 5 to 7, unable to be present, he sent the following toast to be offered in his name, and which the writer well remembers hearing when read: ''Liberty county, the place of my first and second birth, to be the place of my third." '"'The change is coming,'' were his last words, and calmly folding his hands upon his breast, quietly breathed his last.

Son of Dr. Thomas and Ann (Holbrook) Goulding, was born in Liberty county September 28,1810; baptized March 23, 1811; received into the church at Lexington, Ga., November, 1828, where his father was pastor; licensed by Charleston Union Presbytery at Walterboro, S. C., in 1833. His first charge Concord and Harmony churches, §. C. Nine years minister at Greensboro, Waynesboro, and Bath, Ga. Forsome time agent of Publication Society and Seaman's Friend at Charleston, S.C; teacher for awhile at Kingston, Ga.; for six years pastor at Darien, until the war; chaplain in the Confederate army; first inventor of a sewing machine.! His was a busy pen - hbesides writing largely for papers and periodicals, he was the author of four books, among them "The Young Marooners,"' already translated into several languages, and a book that will render his name immortal. He died at Roswell, Ga., August 22, 1881, after a ministry of forty-eight years.

The son of William Jeans and Elizabeth (Way) Baker, was born in Liberty county January 24,1811; graduated at the State University August 6, 1828, and Princeton Seminary,

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1835; licensed by New Brunswick Presbytery August 5, 1835; ordained by Hopewell Presbytery November 26, 1836; pastor of the Milledgeville Church, Ga., for sixteen years; _ also professor of ancient languages in Oglethorpe College _ for seven years; at same time supplying in part, Sparta and Eatonton churches. His health failing, taught a private school in Marietta, Georgia, fur one year, elected professor of Moral Philosophy and Evidences of Christianity, in the Military Institute at said place until broken up by the civil -war, taught school in the Richmond Academy, on the Sand Hills, near Augusta, Ga., ministered to different churches around Marietta, among others Smyrna church, for more than twenty years; and for thirty years stated clerk of the Presbytery of Cherokee, sixty-two years in the ministry and still living.

The son of Elias and Sarah (Jones) Cassels, was born in Liberty county, April 6, 1811, taught school at Flemington, (then Gravel Hill) the writer's first teacher in 1837; studied theology at Seminary at Columbia, graduating in 1835; licensed by Harmony Presbytery, and received by Hopewell Presbytery April 22,1837, and at the same meeting ordained evangelist, pastor of Salem church of that Presbytery, died after a short ministry of seventeen months, in September, 1838, and buried at the pulpit end of the Salem church, where a monument was erected to his memory. The membership of the church, afterwards having removed to the village of Woodstock, the house was sold to the Baptists, and now bears the name of ''Phillip's Baptist church."

The brother of Rev. John W. Baker andson of William Jeans and Elizabeth Baker, was born in Liberty county April 30, 1813, received into the church at Richmond Bath, when there, going to school to Rev. Samuel Cassels about 1828, licensed by Hopewell Presbytery, and ordained by the same November 29, 184.0, preached that winter at Apalachicola,

Florida, doing missionary work at Mariana, took charge of the church at Quincy in 1842, and continued its pastor till 1847, when he took charge of the Academy at Sparta, Ga., and supplying the church at the same time till 1849, when he gave up the school and supplied the church there for three years, temporarily supplied the Midway field during Dr. Axson's absence, in 1851 preached to the Ebenezer church, Sussex county, Va., during the summer of 1852, settled in LaFayette, Ga., in 1853, where for many years, until his health failed, he continued to do evangelistic work in the - destitute sections around him. ° He died at his home at La- Fayette, Ga., June 11, 1896, in the eighty-fourth year of his age. 2

Son of Maj. John and Eliza (Wilson) Winn, was born in Liberty county January 10, 1814, and baptized March 6th of the same year; graduated at Amherst College in 1834, - and at Columbia Seminary in 1837; taken under the care of Georgia Presbytery and licensed November 1, 1837, and ordained by the same November 4, 1838; offered himself and was accepted as a foreign missionary, but lack of funds at the time, and afterwards the failing health of his wife, prevented his going as missionary; entered the field for awhile as collecting agent in the South for foreign missions; for a time supplied Forsyth and Hopewell churches; pastor of Darien and Harris Neck churches from 1840 to 1844; pastor Bryan Neck from 1844 to 1851; employed by the executors of Lambert's estate as missionary to the colored people of Liberty county from 1851 to 1857; pastor at Henry, Ill, ~ from 1857 to 1871; pastor at Madison, Ill., from 1871 till his death, August 26, 1892, after a ministry of 55 years, leaving two children foreign missionaries, Rev. Thomas Winn and Harriet Louisa Winn - both in Japan.

1815; baptized January 7, 1816; received into Midway church December 3, 1831, professing conversion under the preaching of Dr. J. C. Stiles; graduated with second honor at

_ Franklin College August, 1838 ; taught school fora short time = in Taliaferro county ; entered the Columbia Seminary in 1838, _ but compelled to leave after a year on account of ill health; BS . labored as bible agent and colporteur of American Tract 3 Society, from 1841 to 1843, in the States of North and __ South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama; licensed to preach __ at Midway by the Presbytery of Georgia November, 1843.

After spending the winter in Cuba recruiting his health, he engaged for about two yearsin missionary labors among _ the negroes in the vicinity of Port Gibson, Miss., and there married Miss Margarette McComb. Being a _ confirmed consumptive with health broken down, he_ returned to the home of his mother at Walthourville, where he died January 18, 1847, and was buried in the old Midway cemetery. On account of poor health, he was never ordained. 2 _ His widow afterwards married Mr. Henry Bartlett, a : = merchant of New Orleans, and who was the sonof Rev. Mr. Bartlett, for fifty years pastor of the Congregational church at Munson, Mass. He being an elder in Dr. Palmer's church, and went out with acolony, and made an elder in _ the new church. Through the liberal gift of his widow, = Mrs. Bartlett, of $65,000, a memorial building was erected __ to his memory, which still stands and is known as the ""Memorial Church."

Cousin and brother-in-law of Dr. C. C. Jones, son of Maj. Joseph and Sarah Anderson Jones, and grandson of Maj. John Jones, who fell in battle at the seige of Savannah in 1779; was born in Liberty county November 15, 1815; received into Midway church, with seven others, November 23, 1832; graduated at the University of Georgia in 1836 and Columbia Seminary in 1839; licensed by Presbytery of Georgia April 4, 1840; ordained by the same May 2, 1841; pastor of Bryan Neck church, from 1841 to 1843; supply at Darien, from 1843 to 1847; pastor at Marietta, from 1848 to 1853; pastor at First Church, Savannah, 1853 to 1854; Walthourville, 1855; Washington, Ga., 1856 to 1857; Rome, Ga., 1857 to 1861; chaplain in Confederate Army, 1861 to 1862; pastor at Griffin, from 1865 to 1870; evangelist of Atlanta Presbytery, 1870; chaplain of the House of Representatives of Georgia for quite a number of years his home in Atlanta November 26, 1893 - aged 79 years. He was afflicted with almost' total blindness the last few years of his life. He was buried at Atlanta - the Legislature being in session at the time, adjourned to attend the funeral in a body - he being at the time the chaplain of the Senate.

Son of John and Jane (Bulloch) Dunwoody, and grandson of Dr. James Dunwoody; was born in Washington, Wilkes county, Ga., September 24,1816; baptized January 26, 1817; received in old Midway church Februry 25, 1827, with seventeen others; graduated at Yale College; studied law under Judge Lumpkin, and admitted to the bar; graduated at Columbia Seminary in the class of 1841; licensed by Cherokee Presbytery in the fall of the same year; served as missionary of the Presbytery for one year; ordained by Chafleston Presbytery in 1845, and installed pastor of Stoney Creek church; supplied Barnwell in 1858, and Washington, Ga., in 1859; chaplain in the army, taught school, supplied feeble churches on the seaboard; returned to Stoney Creek where he is still living, being in his 82d year. In recent correspondence with him he expresses continued and abiding interest in the old church at Midway - speaking of it as "Dear Old Midway."

The son of John and Rebecca (Jones) Way, was born in Liberty county December 20,1819; baptized February, 1820; received into Midway church, with seven others, November

_ 23,1832; entered Franklin College in 1836, where he re- ; mained a term of years; entered Columbia Seminary and 4 graduated in 1843, licensed by Charleston Presbytery at - Charleston, S. C., in April of the same year, ordained at Co- 3 lumbia, as Foreign Missionary, September, 1843, sailed with - his wife from Boston November 18th of same year, and ' reached Ningpo, China, November, 1844, being twelve eS months on the way, stopping at Java two months; labored in China sixteen years, leaving the last of 1858, and being four months on the way; missionary to the colored people in Liberty county from 1859 to 1866; in connection with _ this work, preaching to the whites at Midway during the a year 1866, was pastor of Mt. Vernon church from 1866 to January, 1871, stated supply at Brunswick in 1871-2, Presbyterial evangelist from 1871 to 1873, pastor to Bryan church from January, 1877, to April, 1886, pastor of Anderson Street Church, Savannah, from 1886 to 1893, died at Savannah August 6, 1895, leaving among hls children one son, a minister, Rev. Louis T. Way.

Son of Major John and Eliza (Wilson) Winn, a great grandson of Rev. John Osgood, the first pastor of Midway church, was born at Sunbury, Liberty county, February 5, 1820; received into Midway church November 29, 1840; a graduated at the University of Georgia August, 1841; teacher } on Colonel's Island 1842, and in Chatham Academy, Sa-

_vannah, 1843; graduated at Columbia Seminary, 1846; l- - eensed and ordained November, 1846; Domestic missionary at Hawkinsville, Haynesville, and Perry fifteen months; assisted Rev. Richard Hooker in organizing Perry church; copastor with Dr. Axson at Midway church seven years, from February, 1848 to 1855; pastor of Concord, Mt. Zion and Carthage churches, in Halecounty, Alabama, forforty years, from 1855 to 1895; five years supply at Bethlehem, and few months at Ebenezer, Gainesville, Bethel and Birmingham, all of said state, and still living at his home in Hale county, (1898).

The son of Rev. Robert and Jemima (Way) Quarterman, who was the pastor of the church for twenty-four years and the father of so many ministers; was born in Liberty county September 21, 1821; graduated with first honor at the State University in 1840; licensed by Georgia Presbytery November 15, 1845; minister at St. Marys, Ga., six months; ordained Foreign Missionary to Ningpo, China, May 31, 1846, embarking on the bark Grafton from New York, July 20th of the same year, arriving at Ningpo in December, and continuing missionary for ten years; translated portions of the Scriptures, and Jones' catechism, into Chinese for the use of the native schools. He died at Ningpo, China, of small pox October 14, 1857, and was buried there.

_ Son of Dr. Daniel Baker, the evangelist and grandson of William Baker, Deacon in Midway church, born in Washington, D. C., January 7, 1823, while his father was pastor there; ordained by the Presbytery of Louisiana in 1850; minister of the Third Church, New Orleans, 1850-2; teacher in New Orleans in 1852-3; minister at Carrollton in 1853-5; at Grosse Tete, in 1855-8; Providence, in 1858-60; Red Lick, in.1858-63; United States Custom House, New Orleans, in. 1863-71; assistant treasurer, office New Orleans, in 1873-6, Sunday-school Missionary Board of Publication, Presbytery of Marysville in 1883-92. He is still living at Marysville, Tennessee. ,

Son of Dr. Daniel Baker and brother of the above, born at Washington, D. C., June 5, 1825: ordained evangelist of the Presbytery of Little Rock in 1850; minister at Galveston, Texas, 1856; pastor at Aniston, 1860-65; Zanesville, Ohio, 1866-72; Newburyport, Mass., 1872 74; Boston, 1174-81; South Church, Philadelphia, 1881-3 ; author of the life of his

____Theson of Simon and Sarah (Martin) Fraser, born in _ Liberty county November 26, 1826; received into Midway _ church November 16, 1844; graduated at Oglethorpe College November, 1848, and Columbia Seminary 1851; licensed by Georgia Presbytery July. 20, 1851, at Mt. Vernon; ordained by the same at Savannah, November 16, 1851; installed pastor Bryan Neck church January 11, 1852; pastoral relation dissolved at Dorchester July 15, 1856, when he was dismissed to the Presbytery of Florida; settled the same year at Jacksonville; called to Madison and Oakland -churches April, 1860, installed April 9, 1862; chaplain of 2nd Florida Regiment July, 1861-3; removed to Monticello, Florida, January 11, 1867; elected professor in Oglethorpe College July, 1870; dismissed to Atlanta Presbytery November 14, 1872; while filling the professional chair, sup- _ plied Decatur church; installed pastor of same 1873, and so continued till his death. On the early morning of Septem ber 12, 1887, he was found dead on the train near McDonough, Ga., while returning from a visit to Liberty county.

Son of Rev. Robert Quarterman, old pastor of the church, and Jemima Way, was born at Flemington, Liberty county, April 13, 1828; received into Midway church February 19, 1842, with twenty-one others ; graduated at Oglethorpe College in 1847, and at Columbia Seminary in 1850: licensed by Georgia Presbytery April 14, 1850; ordained and installed pastor of Mt. Vernon church, Ga., July 20, 1851, removed to Palatka, Florida, November, 1855. He died and was buried there, March 29, 1858, aged thirty years, his | tomb bearing this inscription: ''A grateful tribute to pas- __toral faithfulness. The trumpet of the watchman is still, 3 but a new harp is strung in Heaven."

Son of John O. and Adeline (Fabian) Baker, and nephew of Dr. Daniel Baker, was born in Liberty county September 26, 1827; graduated at college of New Jersey in 1846; ordained evangelist by the Presbytery of Luzerne May 8, 1854, pastor-elect Scranton, Pa., 1854; Roswell, Ga., 1854-5; pastor-elect Augusta, Ga., 1856; Midway, Liberty county, 1857; pastor at Hebron, Va., 1858 to 1861; Lexington, 1862-3; Holcombe's Rock, 1863-6; Jerseyville, Illimois, 1866-71; Monroe City, 1872-6; Ashley, 1876-9; Hickory Plains, Ark., 1879-85. After thirty-one years in the ministry, died at Austin, Ark., May 9, 1855, leaving two sons, ministers, Rev. William Baker, pastor of Mineral Hill, Texas, and Rev. Adolphe Baker, pastor of church at Sykesville, Maryland.

Son of John O. and Adeline Baker, brother of the above, their father, grandfather and great grandfather, all being successively deacons in Midway church; was born in Liberty county Feb. 20, 1830; graduated at Princeton, N. J., 1850, being the valedictorian of a class of eighty-four students; spent one year at Columbia Seminary (1851) ; graduated at Princeton Seminary in 1853: licensed by Luzerne Presbytery in 1852; ordained by West Jersey Presbytery in Bridgeton, N.J., May 18, 1853; pastor at Bridgeton (Second Church) from 1853 to 1855; stated supply and established the church in Sacramento, California, 1856-7; pastor at Staunton, Va.,, from 1857 to 1884 (twenty-seven years); stated supply Roswell, Ga., from 1890 to the present.

The son of William Baker, and nephew of Dr. Daniel Baker, and a licentiate of the Methodist church, was received into Midway church November 20, 1831; relicensed by Georgia Presbytery November 26, 1831; dismissed to

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Hopewell Presbytery March 30, 1833; ordained by the same at Decatur, Ga., April 2, 1833; minister at Hopewell church, near Perry, Ga., and after a brief ministry of three years, died in 1834.

The sonof John W. and Mary (Bacon) Stacy, was bornin Liberty county June 2, 1830, and "'born again" on Monday night November 3, 1845; received into Midway church November 15 of the same year; graduated at Oglethorpe College November 14, 1849, and at Columbia Seminary May, 1852; licensed by Georgia Presbytery at Flemington August 1, 1852; ordained by same in Savannah October 30, 1853; minister at Lumpkin and Cuthbert, 1853; at Eufaula, Ala., 1854; at West Point, Long Cane, and Ebenezer, 1855 and 1856; pastor at Newnan since January, 1857, now fortyone years, and at same time and in connection with the pas torate supplying the church at West Point in 1857; White Oak, now Turin, from 1858 to 1898; Yellow Dirt, 1865 and 1866; Hogansville, 1867 to 1880; Carrollton January, 1881 to July, 1888, and Palmetto, from 1890 to 1898; stated clerk of the Presbytery of Atlanta since 1866, and of the Synod of Georgia since 1876. Thirty-one years in the clerkship of the one and twenty-one years in the other (his father having been clerk of Midway church for thirty years, and his grand-father, twenty years before him); president of the board of directors of the Columbia Seminary from 1887 to 1897; chairman of permanent committee on the Sabbath of the General Assembly since 1878. Author of "Prize Essay on the Sabbath," '' Day of Rest,"' "' Water Baptism,"' and writer of this history.

Son of William and Cynthia Ladson, his father a member of Midway church; was born at Bethesda, near Savannah, June 10, 1830; was named George Whitfield at the request of his father, who died two months before his birth, after the celebrated Whitfield, the founder of Bethesda Orphanage,

_and of whom he was a great admirer; His mother removing - to Savannah, he was baptized by Dr. Preston, pastor of the - Independent church. His mother dying when he was only four years old, he was taken into the family of his uncle, Mr. John Dunwoody, of Liberty county, who was a deacon in Midway church, and to whose care and family he said he "owed everything.'"' He removed with his uncle to Roswell, Ga., June 29,1851; he connected himself with the First church of Savannah, under the pastoral care of Rev. John © B. Ross, to which place he had removed; graduated at Oglethorpe in 1859, and at Columbia Seminary May, 1862; licensed by Georgia Presbytery April 14, 1861, and ordained by the same April 30, 1862; labored successfully among the colored people at Columbia, S. C., from 1861 till his death, July 4, 1864. The colored people of his chargeasked permission to bearall the expenses of hisfuneral, buying a lot in Elmwood cemetery, and erecting a nronument at their own cost. ''Ladson Chapel," erected in Columbia, was also named in token of their high appreciation of his services.

Son of Thomas and Rebecca (Burnley) Mallard, was born at Walthourville, Liberty county September 7, 1830; re- - ceived into Midway church May 15, 1852; graduated at Athens in 1858, and at Columbia Seminary in 1855; licensed by Georgia Presbytery April 14, 1855; ordained by the same April 13, 1856; pastor of Walthourville church 1856 to 1863; of Central church, Atlanta, 1863 to 1866; of Prytania street church, New Orleans, from 1866 to 1877; of Napoleon avenue, New Orleans, from 1895; editor of the Southwestern Presbyterian, since 1892, and moderator of the Southern Presbyterian General Assembly at Memphis, Tenn., in 1896.!

1. Dr, Mallard was taken prisoner at Walthourville Dec. 14, 1865, where he was temporarily stopping, and kept with other prisoners in pens on the Ogeechee. After the - fall of Savannah, he was carried into the city, and for awhile imprisoned in a cotton warehouse on Bay street ; was entertained for about three months at the home of Dr. Axson, as paroled prisoner, before being finally released.

Son of Dr. I. S. K. and Rebecca (Randolph) Axson, was born in Liberty county December 23, 1836, his father at the time being co-pastor of Midway church with Rev. Robert Quarterman. He was received into Midway church November 18, 1854; graduated at Oglethorpe College in 1855, and at Columbia Seminary in the class of 1858; licensed the same year by Charleston Presbytery; city missionary at Augusta, Ga., till fall, when ordained and installed as pastor at Beech Island, where he remained for two years; installed at McPhersonville, S. C., in 1861; chaplain in Confederate army for two years, 1862 and 1863; pastor at Madison, Ga., in 1864; pastor at Rome, Ga., from the close of 1865 to 1883; died at Milledgeville, Ga., May 28, 1884; buried at Savannah.

Son of Rev. James C. and Hannah (Randolph) Cosby, was born at St. Marys, Ga., September 1, 1837; losing his father when not quite two months old - he was reared in Liberty county in the family of Mr. Nathaniel Varnedoe, a deacon of Midway church, who had married his widowed mother. He was received into Midway church February 20, 1859; graduated at Oglethorpe College in 1857, and at Columbia Seminary in the class of 1862; received by Georgia Presbytery as a licentiate from Charleston Presbytery November 10, 1864; ordained by the same November 13, at the same meeting; for eighteen months taught school and supplied

Confederate army till the close of the war, after which he taught school in Savannah for one year; called to Cuthbert church February, 1868, which he served till 1873; then became pastor of Mt. Zion church, Sumter county, S. C., remaining therc fourteen years; became pastor of the Aveleigh church, Newberry, S. C., serving the same till his death. He died at Clarksville, Ga., September 10, 1894, leaving two daughters and two sons, both studying for the ministry.

Son of William Q. and Anna Lydia (Mallard) Baker, born in Liberty county January 18, 1838; graduated at Oglethorpe College in 1857; received into Midway church April 26, 1867;! licensed by Savannah Presbytery April 9, 1871; ordained by the same at St. Marys April 14, 1872; pastor at St. Marys, 1871 to 1878; taught school at the Ridge, near Darien, 1879 and 1880; supply at Dorchester, Liberty county, 1880 - teaching schoo] at the same time; taking charge of the Euchee Valley, Fla., church in 1882, and in connection therewith supplying Freeport, La., in-1881; De- Funiak, 1886, and DeFuniak and Magnolia from 1888 to the present time; and for some time superintendent of public schools for Walton county, Florida. *

The son of Dr. John S. Law, grandson of Benjamin Law, and nephew of Judge William Law, of Liberty county, was born in Columbia, Tenn., September 14, 1839; his father leaving Liberty county, practiced medicine awhile in Forsyth, Ga.; afterwards removed to Columbia, Tenn., where he became a ruling elder; his mother was Sarah Gordon, the aunt of Gen. John B. Gordon. At the outbreak of the war - he was a student of medicine at Memphis; enlisted in the 154th Tennessee Regiment - wounded at the battleof Shiloh, and served as private till the battle of Chickamauga, when appointed adjutant of the 38th Georgia Regiment; captured at Spottsylvania May 13, and remained prisoner of war in Fort Delaware until end of war; entered the Columbia Seminary and graduated in 1870; licensed by Presbytery of Memphis June 10, 1869, and spent the summer in missionary work in Paducah Presbytery; married that year; after completing the course at Columbia, went abroad, spending a winter at the University of Edinburgh, and part of the following winter at the Assembly's College in Belfast Ireland; returning to America in 1872, accepted the call to Walhalla, S.C., where he was ordained by the Presbytery of South Carolina September 23, 1873; on account of failing health of his wife, resigned his charge at Walhalla in 1876, and again went abroad, returning in 1878, and doing evangelistic work until January 1, 1879, when he accepted an invitation to supply the Circular church of Charleston, which place he filled until May, 1879, when he became pastor of the church at Darlington, S.C., where he remained until October 1st, when he accepted a call to his present charge, at Ocala, Fla.

Son of Rev. Robert Quarterman, pastor of Midway church, and brother of Rev. John Winn and Joseph Melanchton Quarterman; was born at Flemington, Liberty county, September 30, 1839; graduated at Oglethorpe College July, 1860; entered the Columbia Seminary that fall, but only remained until the winter of 1861, when he went into service as a private soldier in the spring of 1862; was licensed at Flemington November 13, 1863, and preached during the war, when not otherwise on duty; was ordained at Flemington April 8, 1866; after the close of the war commenced preaching at Walthourville July, 1865, and upon the removal of Mr. Buttolph from Flemington in October, 1867, gave one-half of his time to that place, beginning October, 1867, and so continuing until February 15, 1870, when the pastoral relation was dissolved, and he went to Savannah to take charge of a mission church under the care of the Independent Presbyterian church; left there for Thomasville, Ga., in April, 1873, where he labored until April of 1877, when he removed to Quincy, Fla., where he has remained preaching acceptably ever since, now twenty-one years.

Son of W. Q. and Anna Lydia (Mallard) Baker, was born in Liberty county October 29, 1839; received into thechurch at Walthourville July 10, 1858; graduated at Oglethorpe college in June, 1859, sharing the first honor; spent one year (1860) in Columbia Seminary; licensed by East Alabama Presbytery September 25, 1862, and ordained by the same a short while afterwards; supplied Pea River church 1862-6; pastor of Lowndesboro and Good Hope 1866-70; supplied Opelika and New Harmony churches for a short time; minister at Tallahassee, Florida, 1870; pastor at Opelika from 1871 to 1885; pastor Opelika and Auburn 1886-93. He died at Opelika, Alabama, Angust 7, 1893.

Son of Edward Quarterman, deacon of Midway church, and grandson of Rev. Robert Quarterman, the pastor, was born in Jonesville, one of the summer retreats of Liberty county, March 18, 1841; received into Midway church May 22, 1858; licensed by Georgia Presbytery March 21, 1868; supplied Mineral Spring 1868-9; Waynesville and Brunswick, 1869; Waynesville and Darien, 1870; ordained by Savannah Presbytery April 9, 1871; pastor at Darien 1871-3; Mt. Vernon 1875; stated supply and teacher at Blackshear and Waynesville 1875-79; teacher and supply at Waycross, Waynesville and Hazlehurst 1880-3; organized a church in Worth county in December, 1885; supplied Poulan, St. Marys', King's Ferry, and Marlow 1886-94; discontinued Marlow in 1892; supplied Hazlehurst and Ebenezer, in Mc- Intosh county, in 1894, and Marlow in 1895; Pooler and - Statesboro 1895; elected stated clerk of Savannah Presbytery April 10, 1890, which position he still holds.

Son of W.Q. and Anna Lydia (Mallard) Baker, and a brother of Rev. R. Q. and C. A. Baker; was born in Liberty county January 8, 1843; received into the church at Walthourville October 8, 1859; graduated at Columbia Seminary May, 1869; licensed at Jacksonville, by Florida Presbytery, October, 1868; supplied Palatka 1869; ordained by Bethel Presbytery at Unionville, South Carolina, June, 1870,

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Son of Louis LeConte, a native of Liberty county and member of Midway church, and regular descendant of the LeContes and Quartermans; was born in Savannah Feb. 17, 1846 ; his father dying when he was six years old, he removed to Washington, D. C., where he lived till 1858; then six years in Europe, where he was baptized in Brussels by Rev. Mr. Arnet, of the Evangelical church; on his return received into the First Presbyterian church, of Augusta, Ga.; graduated at South Carolina college, and at Columbia Seminary in 1872; licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Athens in April, and ordained at Gainesville in September of the same year; labored that summer in Clarksville, and sailed to Brazil as missionary in the winter of 1872-3; one year at Campinas; one year and more at Pernambuco; returned in 1876, and died on November 4th, at his mother's home in Washington, D. C., and was buried in that city.

Son of Rev. John and Mary (Brown) Winn, was born at Flemington, Liberty county, June 29, 1851; licensed at Henry, Illinois, in 1874; ordained at Princeville, Illinois,

~in 1877, his father delivering the charge; married in the fall and went as missionary to Kanagawo, Japan, he being the first missionary to leave the treaty ports and go into the interior; a pioneer missionary in those parts, where now they have two good churches, about two hundred members and a large boys and girls school, with comfortable buildings for each. ; ber 28, 1856, his father being pastor there at the time; lcensed by Atlanta Presbytery October 10, 1887; ordained by Cherokee Presbytery April 27, 1888; supplied Ringgold, Georgia, 1887-8; pastor Olivet and McConnelsville, South Carolina, 1889-91; pastor of Georgia Avenue, Atlanta, Ga., 1891, and where he is still laboring.

Son of David and Marion (Fraser) Sheppard and nephew of Dr. Donald Fraser; was born.in Liberty county May 9, 1859; received into Flemington church June 18, 1882; graduated at Davidson college in 1886 and at Columbia Seminary in 1889; licensed at Hazlehurst, by Savannah Presbytery, November 10, 1889; transferred to Mecklenburg Presbytery April 10, 1890; ordained by the same May 27th, and became pastor of the Swannannoa church, North Carolina, 1890-1. On account of impaired health, he has had no regular charge since.

church (colored); was born in Salisbury, Maryland, May 7, 1860; reared in Liberty connty; received into the Dorchester church, a branch of Midway, in 1879; graduated at Princeton Seminary in 1888; ordained by Huntington Presbytery in June of the same year; was one year pastor of Beulah church, of that Presbytery; October, 1889, took charge of Chillisguage and Mooresbury churches, of Northumberland Presbytery ; October 15, 1891, installed pastor of Woodstock Presbyterian church, New York City, where he still resides.

Son of Rev. R. Q. and Susan (Quarterman) Way, missionaries to China; was born at Jonesville, one of the Midway retreats, May 20, 1866; licensed by Savannah Presbytery at Blackshear April 12, 1889; ordained by the sameat Way- -

Son of Edgar and Almira (Spencer) Way, regular descendant of the early settlers of Midway church; was born in Savannah, Georgia, April 12, 1869, his father being teacher in the public schools; licensed by Savannah Presbytery July 10, 1891; ordained by the same December 1, 1891; pastor of the Walthourville church trom December, 1891, to April, 1895, and pastor at Gainesville, Florida, from 1895 to the present time.

The grandson of Paul Fulton, who was born in Liberty county, in the Midway settlement, in the vear 1776; dedicated to God in baptism September 13th of the same year, and received into full membership in Midway church December 23, 1798; and great grandson of Paul Fulton, sr., who had married Sarah Osgood August 9, 1768; was born in Greensboro, Alabama, January 17, 1836. Mr. Paul Fulton, the grandfather of Dr. Witherspoon, removed in early manhood to South Carolina, where he married Martha Mont.' gomery Armstrong in 1804; afterwards removed to Maury county, Tennessee, and later on, with a colony, to Hale county, Alabama, where he became an elder in Mt. Zion church, and so remained till his death, and where many of his descendants still reside. While in Tennessee, his daughter, Sarah Agnes, was born unto him March 31, 1811, who afterwards married Robert Franklin Witherspoon, born in South Carolina June 23, 1797; their son, Timothy Dwight,

After graduating at the University of Mississippi in 1856, and Columbia Seminary in 1859, he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Chickasaw June 6, 1859, and ordained the church at Oxford, Mississippi, from April, 1861, to April, 1865; private in the Confederate service for one year, and chaplain during the remainder of the war; minister of the Second Presbyterian church, Memphis, 1865-70; pastor of Christianburg, Virginia, August 1870-1; chaplain of the abb Street church, Petersburg, Virginia, for nine years, from 1873 to 1882; pastor First Church, Louisville, Kentucky, nine years, September, 1882-91; professor of Bible in Ceutral University for two years, in connection with the pastorate of the church. At the organization,of Louisville Seminary he was made professor of Biblical Instruction,

William Fulton, the son of Paul Fulton, married four times. Among other children, there was a daughter, Martha, who married W. D. Hedleston, of Greene county, Alabama. Theirson, Winn David (named Winn after Rey. Thos. S. Winn, of Liberty county, their pastor); became a minister, and is now pastor of the church at Oxford, Mississippi, a gifted and promising young minister.

Another, and youngest son of William Fulton, and grandson of the above Paul Fulton, is Robert Burwell Fulton, who is now the Chancellor of the University of Mississippi.

Adeline, the daughter of Paul Fulton, married Rey. William Vincent Frierson, one of the pioneers of Chickasaw Presbytery, Mississippi, and had two sons as above; and the elder, Rev. Madison Wilson Frierson, was chaplain in the Confederate army, and died of disease contracted in the camp. The other son, Rev. William Vincent Frierson, jr., is now pastor of two churches in Pontotoc county Mississippi.

How wonderful the history of this man Paul Fulton - born in the Midway settlement, consecrated at her sacred altars. in infancy, himself an elder and superintendent of the Sabbath school of the Mt. Zion church till his death about 1835. Four of his sons elders, three of his daughters ministers' wives, one of his grandsons professor in a theological seminary, avother a chancellor of the university of a great State, two other grandsons in the ministry, and a great grandson a minister. How wonderfully blessed! and likewise what a blessing to the world!

The fourth son of Robert Iverson, a member of Midway church, and his third wife, Margaret J. Harris, and a half brother of Senator Alfred Iverson, was born about 1814 or 1815 in Burke county, to which his father had removed; he was licensed by Flint River Presbytery at Decatur, Ga., October, 1843; dismissed to the East Alabama Presbytery, and died towards the close of 1850, as the Presbytery at its meeting at Jacksonville in April, 1851, makes mention of his death and adopted resolutions expressive of their grief at his death and paying a tribute to his character.

Son of Rev. John F. and Phebe (Steele) Baker, was born in Rockbridge county, Va.; studied at Batesville, Ark., and received his theological training at Austin, Tex.; was licensed in 1889 by the Presbytery of Arkansas; ordained by the same in 1892; minister at Black Rock and Powhatan from 1889 to 1893; pastor at Hico, Tex., three years, and at Nazareth church two years, and at Mineral Wells, in same State, since November 15, 1897.

' Brother of the above, was bornat Jerseyville, Illinois, May 13, 1871; received the degree of B. A. at John Hopkins' University in the spring of 1894; graduated at Union Seminary May, 1897; licensed by Maryland Presbytery at Baltimore, June 14, 1897, and ordained and installed by the same, pastor of the old Springfield church at Sykesville, Maryland, was killed at Midway in 1788, and son of Rey. Charles O. Sereven, a Baptist minister .1 He was born at Sunbury, Liberty county, August 31, 1823; joined the Baptist church at Sunbury, but afterwards was received into the Presbyterian church at Columbia, South Carolina; spent one term in the Seminary there; on account of impaired health, returned home in 1845; a stroke of lightning, in 1849, disqualified him from any further prosecution of his studies; wrote a book on the relations of Christianity to poetry and philosophy, dedicated to Dr. Howe. He died February 12, 1860, in the twenty-sixth year of his age.

Ministers Of Other Denominations

that have gone out from the Midway community, it is proper to state that those whose names we give were, generally, the regular descendants of one or more of the earlier settlers, and were all more or less identified with the old church, either from matrimonial alliances or daily associations, many of them being brought up under her influence and tutellage, attending her schools, and conjointly worshipping in her congregations. To understand the situation, we have only to remember that for the space of fifty four years, from 1752 to 1806, when the first Baptist church was organized,! the Midway church was the only church in the whole county, and that her people during that long time had the exclusive control of a scope of country, though sparsely populated, of some twenty miles in extent. The Baptist and Methodist churches afterwards organized, being upon the outskirts, were comparatively weak and were largely dependent upon their stronger neighbor, who had preoccupied the ground, for materials of membership as well as association and training. Hence we find several of their names onthechurch registry of marriages, births and deaths. Weeven find the names of some of them among the list of subscribers to the articles of incorporation, thus taking pews and supporting the church. As the result of all this the greatest neighborly feeling and association existed. As evidence of this I need only quote the record. We find as early as October 31, 1802, that ''Mr. Charles O. Screven, minister of the gospel at Snnbury (of the Baptist church) joined with us in the ordinance of the Lord's supper and also preached in the afternoon ;, and also mention the additional fact that later on Rev. Josiah of the Methodist church, were employed by the executors of the Lambert estate, (said executors being all members of Midway church) the one to preach to the colored people and the other a supply to the whites, and both preaching with acceptance to both white and colored. I do not remember anything lke exhibition of prejudice on the part of the people toward either. The same appears in the willingness of the Midway people, who were near, to tent at the Methodist campmeetings held in the upper part of the county; and from the additional fact that so many of them, both preacher and people, from the different denominations lie side by side in the old graveyard. These all show not only the great liberality of this people towards the other denominations, but also the training influence they must have exerted over them. It is impossible to see how these others could have grown up in the midst of this people, a people of such intelligence and refinement and such decidedly religious convic- - tions and impulses, without imperceptibly imbibing some of - their principles and made partakers to a great extent of their spiritual life. ?

With this explanation I place the following in the list of those who haye gone out from the Midway people, though ~ in connection with other denominations:

Baptist Ministers Who Have Gone Out From The Midway Community

The records of Midway church show that Joseph Law and Elizabeth Spry were married in July, 1774. Their son, Sam- _ uel Spry, was born to them in Liberty county June 2, 1775, and baptized April 29,1787. He was the first captain of the Liberty county Independent Troup, and afterwards major of the squadron of the first regiment. He was for a time clerk of the Congregational church at Sunbury, a branch of the Midway church, as appears from a letter addressed in 1811, by the Baptist church of that place to Captain J.S. Law.! He appears also to have studied the Shorter Catechisms. ''When under conviction,'' said he, ''the question suggested itself to my mind 'what are considered the effectual means of salvation?' 'God maketh the reading but especially the preaching of the Word, an effectual means of salvation.''"? Thus using the language of the catechism, and showing his familiarity with it. He connected himself with the Baptist church April 30, 1815, when forty years of age. He was ordained at Sunbury December 27, 1827, and after ten years of faithful labor, chiefly among the -colored

Was the son of Peter and Ann (Sumner) Winn. His parents were members of the Midway church. His father was a deacon of the church at the time of his birth, and had been for twenty-six years, from 1798 to 1824; and after this long service became a Baptist. His son, Thomas Sumner, was born at Sunbury July 16, 1792; dedicated unto the Lord by baptism July 22nd of thesame year; was usher to Dr. McWhir in Sunbury Academy in his 17th year; was ordained pastor of North Newport church, and died January 27, 1819, in his twenty-seventh year. The funeral sermon was preached by Rey. Murdoch Murphy, pastor of Midway church, and published by the community. He was a young minister of great

"His stature was above the middle size, lean and muscular; his complexion sallow rather than florid, black haired, of a large forehead, prominent nose, blue eyes, interstreaked with grey, deep set, quick and penetrating, under large dark eyebrows. His temperament was a mixture of the sanguine, with the melancholic. His voice was harmonious and his ear exquisitely attuned to music. No man, thougha stranger, could look in his face and hold him in contempt." the evangelist ; was born in Liberty county August 17, 1798, © and dedicated to the Lord in baptism October 14th following; 'joined the Presbyterian church when young,"! and afterwards the Baptist church;- filled the various positions, bury church; afterwards, of North and South Newport churches, and later on was one of the ministers employed by the executors of the Lambert estate, to the colored people, among whom he faithfully labored. He died October 4,

The son of Benjamin and Cynthia (Sumner) Mell, was born at Walthourville, Liberty county, July 19, 1814. His grandfather, Thomas Sumner, on his mother's side, married first, Sarah Quarterman, the granddaughter of the Rev. John Osgood, but he himself was the descendant of a second wife, viz.: Anna Baker. His mother being a member and his father a supporter of Midway church, he was dedicated to the Lord in baptism soon after his birth in 1814; was received into the Baptist church and immersed by Rey. Samuel S. Law at Newport church, in 1832; ordained November 19, 1842; professor of ancient languages at Mercer University from 1842 to November, 1855, when he was transferred to Athens, and became professor in the State University from moderator of the Southern Baptist Convention, to which he was annually chosen. In connection with his educational work was pastor of churches at various places; author of several works, among them one on ''Baptism,"' another on "Parliamentary Practice,"' ''Philosophy of Prayer," '"'Church Discipline,' and ''Church Polity.'' He died at Athens Jan. 26, 1888, and among others, leaving ason, P. H. Mell, jr., professor in the State Military Institute, Auburn, Alabama.

The son of Oliver and Eliza (Winn) Stevens, who were members of Midway church at the time of his birth, but af terwards became Baptists; was born in Liberty county Jan. 24, 1814; dedicated to the Lord in baptism March 6th, following ; immersed in November, 1827; graduated at Brown University in 1833, and Newton Seminary in 1836; ordained a missionary to Burmah in 1836, where he remained till his death June 19, 1886, after fifty years of missionary work, and was buried at Rangoon, Burmah. He was the first Baptist foreign missionary from the South.

_church; was born in Liberty county January 17, 1816; educated at Walthourville; entered the University at Athens in 1834 and Columbia Seminary in 1836; licensed July, 1838; ordained January 13, 1839, as copastor with Rev. Josiah S. Law, of North Newport church; married Mary Louisa Jones, daughter of Samuel Jones, of Midway church. He died July 3, 1839. He and his wife lie buried side by side in the Midway graveyard. He was the father of Hon. Augustus O. Bacon, United States Senator.

born in Sunbury about the year 1803. His mother was ~ Mary Kell, the aunt of General J. M. Kell; for more than forty years in the ministry, filling different places, such as Forsyth, Macon, two churches in Houston county; president of Baptist college at Cuthbert and afterwards of Central Institute in Alabama. He died in Atlanta September 29,1870. He had a brother, Isaac, captain in the Mexican war, from Macon, who died in Mexico.

to Liberty county and became a faithful minister of the Baptist church, and for ten years missionary of the Sunbury Baptist Association. His work. was chiefly among the colored people and in the upper and more destitute portions of the county. He died September 25, 1832.

ther) Odingsell, and sister of Mrs. Elizabeth Lee, the widow of Rev. Moses Allen, one of the pastors of Midway church. He was ordained May 29, 1801, and was the founder and first pastor of the Baptist church at Sunbury in 1806. He died of cancer, in New York, in July, 1830, aged fifty-seven years.

Son of the above, born in Savannah, and reared there till seventeen years old; then taken to Sunbury till prepared for for college; joined the Baptist church at Sunbury in 1828; entered the ministry of that church; commenced preaching to negroes in Bryan county; removed to LaGrange in 1850; was made agent of Domestic Missionary Board. He died in May, 1864.

William and Mary Dunham were early settlers of St. John's parish and members of Midway church; the former received November 30, 1760, and the latter, June 26, 1756. Among their children, who were usually consecrated to the removed to McIntosh county, where he married and reared afamily. Among his children were Rev. Jacob H. Dunham and a daughter, who married Jesse Campbell, the father of the above. The subject of this sketch was born in McIntosh county Feb. 10, 1807. On his paternal side, his father, of the same name, could trace his lineage in a direct line to the Scottish clan of Campbell. He was educated at Sunbury, where he connected himself with the Baptist church, and where he was also ordained in 1830, and became a minister of prominence in his denomination, filling at different times important places in the state. Hedied at Columbus April 16, 1788, leaving two sons prominent ministers in that denomination, Rev. Messrs. Abner B. and Charles I). Campbell.

Son of Oliver and Eliza (Winn) Stevens and brother of Dr. Edward A. and Rev. Henry J. Stevens, was bornatSunbury, Liberty county, September 30, 1823. After two years at Athens college, taught school for several years, the writer being a pupil for awhile; graduated at Mercer in the department of Theology in 1848; was pastor at Sparta, Ga., where he died October 31, 1866. He was a man of amiable disposition, and was greatly beloved. The writer takes pleasure in adding his testimony to that of others in certifying to his worth and excellency.

Edward A. and Rev. Carlos Stevens, was born in Liberty county ; entered the ministry of the Baptist church, having received his education at Newton Seminary, Massachusetts ; preached first at Robertville, South Carolina. He died at Walthourville October 10, 1854, at the time being pastor of Sunbury and Newport churches, and was buried at Midway.

Son of Mathew and Sarah (Spencer) Bennett, his mother a member of Midway church and his father a signer of the - articles of incorporation of the church; was born in Liberty county October 19, 1827; dedicated in infancy unto the Lord ; practiced law for a number of years at Lumpkin, Ga.; was ordained at Quitman, Ga., in 1874, where he still lives, filling the position of Judge of the County Court and supplying the destitute and feebler churches within reach.

Rev. John Lake was born in Edgefield county, South Carolina, June 11, 1870. His father, Captain George B. Lake, was a native of the same county. His mother, Rosa Florence Jones, the daughter of Moses L. and Saccharissa (Axson) Jones; her parents and grandparents all members of Midway church. The subject of this notice was educated at Military Academy in Charleston; entered the work of the Young Men's Christian Association; became a special student in Columbia Theological Seminary (Presbyterian) while acting as secretary of the Association in that place; in 1890 organized the Edgefield County Young Men's Christian Association work, the first permanent county work in the world; in 1893 organized a '"'County Training School'' for secretaries; as a further adjunct, in 1894, started anewspaper called ''This Way,"' which has since become the official organ of the Young Men's Christian Association work for several states ; in the mean while becoming ordained to the Baptist ministry, and is now serving several town and country churches, making a specialty, however, in endeav-

Baptist Ministers

Son of Rev. Jonathan Gaulden and grandson, I presume, of Jack Gaulden, one of the signers of the articles of incorporation, was born in Liberty county May 5, 1812, and ordained in Lumpkin, Georgia, to which place he had removed and where he had been practicing law.

The son of Jesse and Margaret (Cassels) Butler, the sister of Rev. Samuel J. Cassels, was born at Flemington, Liberty county, and for a number of years has been a minister in the Baptist church, and is now living near Jesup.

To the above list this name might also be added. Concerning Mr. Baker, familiarly known as ''Uncle Jere,'' the writer knows very little. I only remember seeing him once at Midway church. He preached in the lower part of the county, about Sunbury and Dorchester, somewhere during the years between 1840 and 1845.

Methodist Ministers Who Have Gone Out From Midway Church

Son of James and Esther Andrew, original settlers, and members of the Midway church, was born in Liberty county September 14, 1758, and baptized October 14th following. His father, James Andrew, was clerk of the Midway church for five years, from 1766 to 1771. His father died December 5, 1770, and his mother July 6, 1773, and he being left, a lad of fifteen years old. The war of the Revolution coming on, he entered the army till its close. The coast being all deso- known as Columbia, and where he joined the Methodist church and also entered the ministry of that church. For awhile he located and taught school. He died in 1830, and was buried in Oconee county, about one mile north of Farmington. He was the first native born Methodist minister, of the traveling connection, in the state.

3,1794. His father named him James Osgood after Rev. John Osgood, his father's pastor, while he lived in Liberty county. He was licensed to preach in 1812 and received into the itineracy by the conference held in Charleston, South Carolina, the winter of that year, being then only nineteen years of age. At the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church held at Philadelphia in 1832, was elected and ordained Bishop; was requested by the General Conference at New York in 1843, by a vote of one hundred and eleven to sixty-nine, to desist from performing the official functions of his office because his wife was the owner of a few slaves. Atthe meeting of the Southern Delegates at Louisville, Kentucky, May 1, 1845, Bishop Andrew presided: and at the organization of the Southern church at Petersburg, Virginia, in 1846, he was reinstated and continued Bishop until his death, which occurred at Mobile, Alabama, March 1, 1871.

He dieae felt an interest in the home of his aiiecsbon In passing through Liberty county once, he went to the graveyard and knelt near the graves of his grandparents and their pastor, and lifted up his soul in prayer to God.

He was the first Georgian who had ever been elevated to the position of Bishop, as his father had been the first Georgian who became a traveling preacher in that church. Rey.

Methodist Ministers

The son of Elias and Sarah (Jones) Cassels, and brother of Rev. Samuel J. and Rev. John B. Cassels, was born in Liberty county September 22, 1797; baptized October 8, 1797; afterwards became a Methodist minister and labored in the vicinity of Bainbridge, Georgia, and also in Gadsden, Leon, Jefferson, Madison, and Sewannee counties, Florida. He died September, 1857, and was buried in the Chester church graveyard in Decatur county, Georgia.

Son of General Daniel Stewart, was born in Liberty county October 21,1791, and was baptized December 4th following; removed to Florida, and in after life became a local minister in the Methodist church. The writer remembers hearing him preach at the Methodist campmeeting at Taylor's Creek, Liberty county, in 1843. Hedied at his home in Alachua county, Florida, in 1847, and was buried at "'Potosi,"' the country home of the family, ten miles south of Newnansville.

Son of Micajah and Ann (Quarterman) Andrews and grandson of Isham Andrews, one of the original settlers, was born in Liberty county June 12, 1798, and was reared in the bosom of the church, being dedicated to the Lord in baptism July 22,1798, and afterwards became a member and minister in the Methodist church. In after years he removed to Florida, where he died and was buried.

Son of Micajah and Ann (Quarterman) Andrews and brother of the above, and grandson of Isham Andrews; his mother, Ann Quarterman, being a granddaughter of John Quarterman, sr., one of the original settlers, and all members of Midway church, was born in Liberty county March 31, 1800, and was baptized October 26th following. In after years he connected himself with the Methodist church, and became a local and useful minister, supplying destitute fields around; for several years was employed by the executors of the Lambert estate, as missionary to the colored people in Liberty county, and for awhile supplying at the same time the white people. He died May 19, 1880, leaving among other children, one son, Christopher Columbus, a hcensed exhorter, and one daughter, Caroline, who became the wife of Rev. D. J. Myrick and the mother of Mr. Bascom Myrick, for so many years editor of the Americus Times- Recorder.

Brother of the above, was born in Liberty county March 23, 1805; baptized May 19th of the same year; received into Midway church August 28, 1825; afterwards, like his brother, connected himself with the Methodist church, and became a minister in the same. He died in Savannah and was ~

Son of Rev. Joseph and Dorcas (Shave) Andrews, was born in Liberty county October 12, 1821. He joined the Methodist church and became a minister until his death, May 6, 1893.

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and Margaret Esther Myddleton, was born in 1816, and baptized at Midway December 15,1816. His mother was the second wife of his father, and he was therefore only half brother to the other sons, who were ministers, whose mother was Mary Jemima Way. He removed to Florida and connected himself with the Methodist church, and became a

Son of Moses Way, a deacon in Midway church. His mother was Elizabeth Bacon, (aunt of the writer.) He was born in Liberty county in October, 1825, and reared up in the bosom of Midway church, until about sixteen years of age, when he entered the Methodist church and became a minister in the same; also a teacher till his death, which occurred at Taylor's Creek December 12, 1859. He was buried with his people in Midway cemetery.

Son of Rey. Samuel Spry Law and brother of Rev. Josiah S. Law, Baptist minister, was born in Liberty county ; graduated at the University of Georgia; entered upon the practice of law, and afterwards the ministry of the Methodist

Son of Littleberry Hendry and grandson of Robert Hendry, who was a member of Midway church, was bornat Taylor's Creek, Liberty county, in 1854; connected himself with the Methodist church and entered the ministry of the same about 1882; removed to Texas, from whence he went as a missionary to China about 1890, and where he is still laboring. :

Episcopal Ministers

Son of Dr. Asa and Lucy (Goulding) Pond and grandson of Dr. Thomas Goulding, was born at Lexington, Georgia, January 31, 1827; removed with his parents to Columbus when quite a boy, where he lived and grew to manhood; graduated from Franklin college withsecond honor, in 1845; married Mary Cornelia Jones, daughter of William Jones, of Liberty county, July 14, 1853; taught school till the war, in which he served the whole four years; after the war he -applied for orders in the Episcopal church, and was ordained by Bishop R. H. Wilmer in Mobile, Alabama, in 1871. His first Parish was in Marion, Alabama; the next, in Albany, Georgia; the last five years of his life were spent as a missionary in northeast Georgia, at Gainesville, Clarksville, Tallulah Falls, and Mt. Airy; his home being in Mt. Airy, where he died March 24, 1894. He was buried at Albany, Georgia.

So named after the celebrated minister, Dr. Kollock, pastor of the Independent church, of Savannah, and was the son of Ebenezer Rees, grandson of Judge Advocate Rees, and a regular descendant of the Liberty county people on his grandmother's side. Iam unable to give her maiden name, but she was twice married; first, to John Kell, sr., of Sunbury, spoken of in the disqualifying act as "gentleman," and became the grandmother of Captain J. M. Kell and Rey. Dr. A. T. Holmes; and second, to Judge Advocate Rees, and became the grandmother of the above. Rev. H. K. Rees was first a Presbyterian minister, located at Darien, but afterwards entered the Episcopal church, and was Rector at Macon, Ga., for a number of years. He died at Darien, Ga., March 25, 1893.

old church. Was the like ever known? Where else upon the face of the habitable globe, did so small a fountain ever send out so many and large streams? The earth has produced but one Niagara, but one Mt. Blanc, -but one lake Como. So it has given us but one Midway church. Surely the mould was broken into which this people were cast. When the remains of the immortal Washington were deposited in the Sarcophagus at Mount Vernon the key to the receiving locked up in his solitary resting place ''The father of his country"' sleeps, beside his wife, in solitude undisturbed. So this grand old church, with its wondrous record and sacred memories, lies locked up in solitary grandeur, in the place of its entombment, alike to remain the constant marvel of history, as well as the favorite shrine of the pilgrim, and proper theme for future story and song.

not a single one of all the scores of ministers going out from her ever entered her folds. The motto on the old colonial seal, ''Non sibi sed aliis,"' not for ourselves, but for others, might well be inscribed upon her tomb. She has been a real nursery for the Presbyterian church, and it is difficult to see how that church could well have gotten along without her aid. Neither is it easy to say how much the Baptist and Methodist churches are likewise indebted for contributions to their working forces. It is simply impossible to tell how much the Baptists are indebted for two such men as Chancellor P. H. Mell and Dr. Edward A. Stevens, missionary, both of whom were consecrated to the Lord in infancy, upon her Altars. Or the Methodists for one such man, as 'Sanoae James Osgood Andrew, the grandson of her clerk, James Andrew, and so named in honor of her first pastor, Rev. John ; Osgood.

In speaking of the noted characters who have gone out © from this grand old church, I would be recreant to my duty, did I fail to make special mention of some, at least, of the noble women, who have gone, out from the same. No ~ church has ever furnished such a host of devoted Christian - women, and certainly none ever had the honor of furnishing sO many ministers' wives. Among the number of those whose names I now recall, | mention the following: '

Mrs. Mary Baker, widow of Col. John Baker, who ee wards became the wifeof Dr. McWhir. Renchie Norman, first _ the wife of Thomas Quarterman, and secondly the wife of Senator John Elliott, and lastly, married Rev. Cyrus Gildersleeve, the pastor of the church. Ann Winn, the daughter of - Peter Winn, for ten years deacon in the church, who became. the wife of Prof. J. R. Ripley, D. D., professor at Newton Seminary, Mass., for forty-five years. Mrs. Sarah Me- Connell (Miss Walthour), the second wife of Rev. George Howe, D. D., professor for fifty-two years of Columbia Seminary, and whose daughter, Augusta (McConnell), became the wife of Rev. B. M. Palmer, D. D:, for so many years the pastor of the church at New Orleans. Mary Jones, the grand- | daughter of Major John Jones, Gf Revolutionary fame, who married Rev. C. C. Jones, D. D., professor at Columbia Sem-- inary, and who was the siauhes of Hon: \C; (Cig. jr oe LL. D., archaeologist and historian, and of Dr. Joseph Jones, Beene at Tulane Medical College, New Orleans, and of Mary Sharpe Jones, who was the wife of Rey. R. Q. Mallard, - D. D., editor of the Southwestern Presbyterian, New Orleans. Amanda, the daughter of George Walthour, and wife of Rev. Dr. William Curtis, of the Baptist church. Cornelia, the daughter of Thomas Bacon, and wife of Rev. Rev. Mr. Foster, of the same church. The two daughters of Dr. Thomas -

Charlotte, the first wife of Rev. Francis McMurray. Mary Eliza Winn, the daughter of Major John and Eliza Winn, and _ great granddaughter of Rev. John Osgood, the old pastor, a and wife of Rev. Samuel J. Cassels. The two daughters of _ Rev. Robert Quarterman, the pastor; Susan Caroline, the wife of Rev. Richard Q. Way, who, with her husband, spent _ sixteen years in Ningpo, China, as missionaries, and Mary, ~ who married Rey. Thomas S. Winn, now of Alabama, and - whose daughter, Mary Lelia, nas been for sixteen years mis- '- sionary in Japan. Felix, the daughter of Rev. J. W. Baker, "and wife of Prof. James Woodrow, D. D., president of South 'Carolina college, and whose daughter, Jean, is the wife of _ Rey. Samuel Woodbridge, missionary to Japan. Louisa Jones, daughter of Samuel Jones, and wife of Rev. Augustus a ©. Bacon, and mother of -Hon. Augustus O. Bacon, "ee United States Senator. Eliza Cassels, the daughter of > Rev. Samuel J. Cassels, and widow of the late Rev. a J. M. Quarterman. Valeria Cassels, the daughter of Elder Thomas QO. Cassels, and wife of Rev. Donald Fraser, D. D., and mother of Rev. Chalmers Fraser, pastor of Georgia Avenue church, Atlanta. Mary Winn Stacy, daughter of Ezra ' Stacy, deacon, and the wife of Rev. N. P. Quarterman, pas- - tor of the Quincy church, Florida. Laura Maxwell, daugh- ' ter of Col. James A. and Susan Maxwell, and wife of Rev. D. L. Buttolph, D. D., for thirteen years pastor of Midway church. Sarah Baker, daughter of John O. Baker, and sec- _ ond wife of Rev. John Winn. . Elizabeth, the daughter of _ . James Wood, and wife of Rev. William W. Stegall, a Methodist rhinister. Eloisa Baker, the daughter of W. Q. Baker, - who married Rev. J. H. Alexander. Caroline, the daughter _ of Rev. R. Q. Andrews, and wife of Rev. D. J. Myrick and mother of Bascom Myrick, editor. The two daughters of _ Edward Quarterman, deacon, and granddaughters of Rey. Robert Quarterman, the pastor; Aurilla, who married Rev. ey J: M. Austin, of the Methodist church, and Lizzie, the wife of Rev. A. B. Curry, pastor of the First Church, Birmingham, Alabama. Cornelia, daughter of W.L. Jones, who married

152 HISTORY OF MIDWAY CHURCH. Rev. Thomas Pond, the Episcopal minister. Mary, the daughter of Baxter Cassels, and wife of Rev. C. C. Carson, pastor of Flemington church. ° f

I might mention others, but these will suffice. Who can estimate the influence of these wives and mothers upon the rising generations of the world? Their influence will be felt for ages yet to come.