Georgia   Biographies Baptist  Elijah Moon Amos

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ELIJAH MOON AMOS

     Elijah Moon Amos, was born in Montgomery county, 
Alabama, November 27th, 1818.  He was the only son of
Captain Charles and Phalba Amos; the former having been
Captain in the American army of 1812 and 1814.  Both his
maternal and paternal grandfathers were Captains in the
war of American Independence.  By the death of his parents
he was left a destitute orphan in his ninth year, dependent
on his mother's relatives, with whom he remained four years.
He  was then carred to Knoxville, Georgia, by his uncle, Elijah
Moon Amos, after whom he was named, and by whom he was
reared and partially educated.  In youth he was, for five or 
six years, disabled and tortured by an attack of white swelling, 
[phlegmasia.  Thrombosis of large veins in the leg accompanied by swelling, hardness and much pain.  Ref:  A TO ZAX, A 
COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY FOR GENEALOGIST &
HISTORIANS, p. 281] which interfered with his education but
enabled him to devote much time to reading works in history,
biography, romance and poetry.  When sufficiently restored he 
became a salesman in his uncle's store, and so remained until 
his twenty-second year, when he was taken into partnership.
     In the year 1841 [December 21st], he was united in 
marriage to Miss Lucinda Ansley, the result of which union was
the birth of eight children - four sons and four daughters.
     In the summer of 1842, he was converted to God, and after
due reflection and investigation connected himself, in the same
year, with the Knoxville Baptist church, by experience and 
baptism, although his pious mother was a Methodist and he 
was brought up under the influence of that denomination...
In 1853 he was licensed, and in 1855 ordained by the same 
church...  In 1862, he removed to Middle Georgia, and 
settled in Forsyth, Monroe County, where he has resided ever
since...

Ref:  HISTORY OF THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION IN GEORGIA 
WITH BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM AND PORTRAIT
GALLERY OF BAPTIST MINISTERS AND OTHER GEORGIA
BAPTISTS, 1881, Jas. P. Harrison & Co., Atlanta, pp. 07-08.

 




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