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17. REV. DANIEL SUMNER BAKER.
Son of Dr. Daniel Baker, the evangelist and grandson of William Baker, Deacon in Midway church, born in Wash- ington, 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.
18. REV. WILLIAM MUNFORD BAKER, D. D.
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
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father, Dr. Daniel Baker. Died at Boston, Mass., after thir- ty-four years in the ministry, August 20, 1883.
19. REV. DONALD FRASER, D. D.
The son of Simon and Sarah (Martin) Fraser, born in Liberty county November 26, 1826; received into Midway church November 16, 1844; graduated at Oglethorpe Col- lege November, 1848, and Columbia Seminary 1851; li- censed 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; pas- toral 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 No- vember 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 McDon- ough, Ga., while returning from a visit to Liberty county.
20. REV. JOSEPH MELANCHTHON QUARTERMAN.
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 Col- lege in 1847, and at Columbia Seminary in 1850: licensed by Georgia Presbytery April 14, 1850; ordained and in- stalled pastor of Mt. Vernon church, Ga., July 20, 1851, re- moved 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, but a new harp is strung in Heaven."
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21. REV. JOHN FABIAN BAKER.
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; or- dained 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, Illinois, 1866-71; Monroe City, 1872-6; Ashley, 1876-9; Hickory Plains, Ark., 1879-85. After thirty-one years in the minis- try, 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.
22. REV. WILLIAM ELLIOTT BAKER.
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 Presby- tery in 1852; ordained by West Jersey Presbytery in Bridge- ton, 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.
23. REV. JOHN BAKER.
The son of William Baker, and nephew of Dr. Daniel Baker, and a licentiate of the Methodist church, was re- ceived 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.
24. REV. JAMES STACY, D. D.
The son of John W. and Mary (Bacon) Stacy, was born in Liberty county June 2, 1830, and "born again" on Monday night November 3, 1845; received into Midway church No- vember 15 of the same year; graduated at Oglethorpe Col- lege 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 forty- one 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.
25. REV. GEORGE WHITFIELD LADSON.
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,
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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 Ogle- thorpe 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 charge asked permission to bearall the expenses of his funeral, buying a lot in Elmwood cemetery, and erecting a monument at their own cost. "Ladson Chapel," erected in Columbia, was also named in token of their high appreciation of his services.
26. REV. ROBERT QUARTERMAN MALLARD, D. D.
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 1853, 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 Pry- tania 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
1. Dr. Mallard was taken prisoner at Walthourville Dec. 14, 1865, where he was tem- porarily 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.
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27. REV. SAMUEL EDWARD AXSON.
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 Novem- ber 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 Au- gusta, 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.
28. REV. JAMES SMITH COSBY, D. D.
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 Presby- tery 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 the church at Bryan Neck; then served as chaplain in the 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 be- came pastor of Mt. Zion church, Sumter county, S. C., re- maining 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.
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29. REV. ROBERT QUARTERMAN BAKER.
Son of William Q. and Anna Lydia (Mallard) Baker, born in Liberty county January 18, 1838; graduated at Ogle- thorpe College in 1857; received into Midway church April 26, 1867;1 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 school 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.
30. REV. JOHN GORDON LAW.
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 For- syth, 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 battle of 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 Sem- inary 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;
1. The last white person received into the old church.
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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 evangel- istic work until January 1, 1879, when he accepted an invi- tation 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.
31. REV. NATHANIEL PRATT QUARTERMAN.
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 re- mained 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 Flem- ington April 8, 1866; after the close of the war commenced preaching at Walthourville July, 1865, and upon the re- moval 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.
32. REV. CAESAR AUGUSTUS BAKER.
Son of W. Q. and Anna Lydia (Mallard) Baker, was born in Liberty county October 29, 1839; received into the church at Walthourville July 10, 1858; graduated at Oglethorpe
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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; min- ister 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.
33. REV. JOHN WAY QUARTERMAN.
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 Bruns- wick, 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 Presby- tery April 10, 1890, which position he still holds.
34. REV. BENJAMIN LAZARUS BAKER.
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 Wal- thourville October 8, 1859; graduated at Columbia Semi- nary May, 1869 ; licensed at Jacksonville, by Florida Pres- bytery, October, 1868; supplied Palatka 1869; ordained by Bethel Presbytery at Unionville, South Carolina, June, 1870,
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and installed pastor at said place; removed to Monticello in January, 1871, and installed pastor the same year, where he still resides.
35. REV. WILLIAM LECONTE.
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 re- moved 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 re- ceived into the First Presbyterian church, of Augusta, Ga .; graduated at South Carolina college, and at Columbia Semi- nary in 1872; licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Ath- ens 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.
36. REV. THOMAS CLAY WINN.
Son of Rev. John and Mary (Brown) Winn, was born at Flemington, Liberty county, June 29, 1851 ; licensed at Hen- ry, 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 build- ings for each.
37. REV. CHALMERS FRASER.
Son of Rev. Dr. Donald and Valeria (Cassels) Fraser, of Liberty county, was born at Jacksonville, Florida, Septem-
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ber 28, 1856, his father being pastor there at the time; li- censed 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.
38. REV. DAVID FRASER SHEPPARD.
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 ; grad- uated at Davidson college in 1886 and at Columbia Semina- ry 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 be- came pastor of the Swannannoa church, North Carolina, 1890-1. On account of impaired health, he has had no reg- ular charge since.
39. REV. ABBOTT L. R. WAITE.
Son of Rev. James T. Waite, for so long pastor of Midway church (colored) ; was born in Salisbury, Maryland, May 7, 1860; reared in Liberty connty; received into the Dor- chester church, a branch of Midway, in 1879; graduated at Princeton Seminary in 1888; ordained by Huntington Pres- bytery 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 Nor- thumberland Presbytery ; October 15, 1891, installed pastor of Woodstock Presbyterian church, New York City, where he still resides.
40. REV. LOUIS THEODORE WAY.
Son of Rev. R. Q. and Susan (Quarterman) Way, mission- aries 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 same at Way.
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cross May 19, 1892 ; supplied Bryan Neck, pastor Mt. Zion and Bushy Park for six months, ending December 31, 1892, preaching to Bryan Neck, Marlow, and Pooler from 1892-5, and Bryan Neck and Dorchester since 1896.
41. REV. EDGAR WILLIAM WAY.
Son of Edgar and Almira (Spencer) Way, regular descend- ant of the early settlers of Midway church; was born in Sa. vannah, 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 from December, 1891, to April, 1895, and pastor at Gainesville, Florida, from 1895 to the present time.
42. REV. TIMOTHY DWIGHT WITHERSPOON, D. D.
The grandson of Paul Fulton, who was born in Liberty county, in the Midway settlement, in the year 1776; dedi- cated to God in baptism September 13th of the same year, and received into full membership in Midway church Decem- ber 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 man- hood 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 daugh- ter, 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, being born unto them at the time and place above indicated. 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
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by the same Presbytery in May, 1860, and became pastor of 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 University of Virginia for two years, July, 1871-3; pastor Tabb Street church, Petersburg, Virginia, for nine years, from 1873 to 1882; pastor First Church, Louisville, Ken- tucky, nine years, September, 1882-91 ; professor of Bible in Central 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, Homiletics, and Pastoral Theology, which position he still holds.
43. REV. WINN DAVID HEDLESTON.
William Fulton, the son of Paul Fulton, married four times. Among other children, there was a daughter, Mar- tha, who married W. D. Hedleston, of Greene county, Ala- bama. Their son, Winn David (named Winn after Rèv. Thos. S. Winn, of Liberty county, their pastor); became a minister, and is now pastor of the church at Oxford, Miss- issippi, a gifted and promising young minister.
Another, and youngest son of William Fulton, and grand- son of the above Paul Fulton, is Robert Burwell Fulton, who is now the Chancellor of the University of Mississippi.
44. REV. MADISON WILSON FRIERSON.
45. REV. WILLIAM VINCENT FRIERSON, JR.
Adeline, the daughter of Paul Fulton, married Rev. Wil- liam 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.
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46. REV. JOHN C. MCMULLEN.
Leonora Fulton, the daughter of Paul Fulton, married Rev. James P. McMullen, pastor of Mt. Zion church, of which her father was founder, and had two sons. One, Wil- liam McMullen, fell in battle, a student for the ministry, and soldier in the Confederate army. The other and younger son, Rev. John C. McMullen, is now in the ministry and pastor at Midway, Ky.
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 Sab- bath 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 semi- nary, another 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 !
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