When an individual has so much talent and ability, it is difficult at times to see the true greatness that comes from that individual. It is only after that person comes and then departs is it possible to see the true greatness that that individual has had. It is also very true when there were […]
The lineage of our subject reaches all the way back to Pre-Revolutionary War England. Thomas Franklin was born at Ecton, in 1598. He lived to be quite old, dying at the ripe old age of 104.This was quite a feat for those times of limited medical knowledge. Thomas had four eminent sons, the oldest being
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James O’Kelly (1735-1826) James O’Kelly is considered by many knowledgeable men as the very first to plead for the ideals as would later be called the Christian Church. His date and circumstances of birth are disputed with several giving different dates and even different continents. After much discussion and review, it can be said
William Kinkade. (1783—1832.) This Elder was born in the backwoods of Pennsylvania, September 22. 1783. He moved with his parents to Kentucky in 1786. He was raised in the Presbyterian Church, and was converted in that church in 1802, when he immediately began to preach. He determined to hold to the Bible and right
Daniel Sommer was of German ancestry. His parents were German immigrants. The father, Johann (John) was a Hessian, while the mother, Magdalena Wyman, came from Bavaria. They came to this country in about 1835 and married in Washington D.C. in 1840. Both parents were short in stature, each being about five feet five inches.
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David Lipscomb was an important leader of the second generation of the Restoration Movement. It was his steady hand and eye that were to guide the disciples and all who were seeking to do Bible things in Bible ways. When things got tough for southerners in post-civil-war Tennessee, it was his guidance which would
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The Life of Jacob Creath, Jr. His Birth and Early Days. The life of Jacob Creath Jr. begins on January 17, 1799 in Mecklenburg, County, Virginia. His father was a strictly Baptist preacher named William Creath. His mother was Lucy Brame, the daughter of Thomas Brame of Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Both of his parents were
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The Life of Thomas Wesley Brents The life of Thomas Wesley Brents began on February 10, 1823 in a dirt-floored shack alongside Richmond Creek. It was in a cabin of a poor farming couple who were engaged in the same process as were most all of the neighbors; clearing the land and preparing to plant
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The story of Tolbert Fanning began at his birth on May 10, 1810. He was born in Cannon County, Tennessee in the wilderness. Settlers were still trying to dig, burn and hack their way out of the wilderness. The people of today do not realize that they stand on the shoulders of giants from the
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