The following is an excerpt from the book, Sketches of Our Mountain Pioneers, edited by J. W. West, containing a biographical sketch of Silas Shelburne. ——— Silas Shelburne was of a long line of ancestors and descendants who became ministers. One of his relatives told me that they could trace their ancestors back to the […]
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Samuel K. Hoshour S.K. Hoshour was born in York County, Pennsylvania on December 9, 1803. His ancestors had come to this country nearly a century earlier from the French and German borders. His father was a Mennonite while his mother was a dyed-in-the-wool Lutheran who clung to her faith and taught young Samuel how to
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The Life of J.W. McGarvey BIRTH AND EARLY LIFE John William McGarvey came from Scotch-Irish Stock in Hopkinsville, Kentucky on March 1. His parents were John McGarvey and Sara Ann Thomson. The two had 4 children in 4 years of marriage before his death. After some time, she married Dr. Gordon Saltonstall who was
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John T. Johnson BIRTH AND EARLY DAYS John Telemacus Johnson was born into this world on October 5, 1788 at Great Crossings, Scott County, Kentucky. His parents were Robert and Jemima Johnson. They were of Welsh stock and came from Virginia, of which Kentucky was a county. They were rigid Baptists of great integrity. His
WILLIAM WESLEY OTEY- LIGHTNING ROD BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS The world in which William Wesley Otey was born was very different from what we enjoy today. The date of his birth was March 14, 1867. The nation was trying to recover from the Civil War that had raged up until recently. Large sections of
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Joseph Sale Warlick 1865-1941 In the second generation of restoration movement, there were a great number of rural, and a few urban preachers who worked hard to eliminate religious error, plant churches and defend the precious doctrine of the New Testament against the errors and false teachers of the denominational world. These men were often
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THE BIOGRAPHY OF ELDER DAVID PURVIANCE … (Dayton: B.F. & G.W. Ells, 1848; reprint. 1940), 57-73. Constitution, Unity, and Discipline of the Church of Christ, addressed to the brethren of the Christian Church, by David Purviance. “Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the
Walter Scott 1796-1861 Walter Scott was born on October 31, 1796, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. He received a quality education and attended school at Edinburgh College. It was done with a view toward his being a minister in the Presbyterian Church. Much of his piety was gained from a very godly mother who possessed remarkable piety
The Story of Love H. Jameson. Love Jameson came into this world on May 17, 1811 in Indian, Kentucky. His parents were from Virginia. His father had departed Virginia in 1795 while his mother left in 1803. Shortly after they had arrived in the new territory of Indiana, they were married. In the fall of
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Rice Haggard (1769–1819) Rice Haggard was born in Norfolk, Virginia in the year 1769. Virginia was still a British colony. By the time that Rice reached the age of ten the Virginians were at war with their colonial masters as to who exactly was going to be in control of Virginia. When he reached the
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