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Discussion in 'Baptist History' started by rlvaughn, Oct 24, 2018.

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the following links give short Baptist history/biography of two men who pastored my ancestors in Georgia in the early toward mid 1800s.

Edmund Shackelford (or Shackleford)

...the Rev. Edmund Shackleford, aged 49 years, two months and 22 days....died suddenly of a relapse, after the most pleasing hopes had been entertained of his recovery.
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In memory of Joseph Roberts (1769-1836)

Few ministers possessed to the extent he did the faculty of endearing their people to them, and this, perhaps, was one secret of his usefulness. The doctrines of grace were his delight, and furnished the staple of his sermons; yet, like Paul, he dwelt much upon practical godliness.
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#1 rlvaughn, Oct 24, 2018

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