Georgia   Biographies Baptist  Napoleon Alexander Bailey

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Ref:  HISTORY OF THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION IN GEORGIA;  BIOGRAPHICAL COMPENDIUM AND PORTRAIT GALLERY OF BAPTIST MINISTERS AND OTHER GEORGIA BAPTIST, 1881, Jas. P. Harrison & Co., Atlanta, GA,

NAPOLEON ALEXANDER BAILEY

In the summer of 1836, a man and his wife stood on an
eminence overlooking a large assembly, gathered to witness
the baptism of twenty-five or thirty converts in Town Creek,
Lawrence county, Albama.  By their side stood a little boy
of three, who was deeply impressed by the ceremony, on which
he gazed in wonder....  The child grew to the age of nine,
when he was received into the membership of a Methodist
Episcopal church, and a little water spinkled on him, which
was called baptism; but the ceremony did not correspond with
the scene on which he had looked six years before... The
young man was Napoleon Alexander Bailey, who was born in
Lawrence county, Alabama, September 5th, 1833.  His father
was John W. Bailey, a native of Virginia, and his mother was
Mary E. Florence, from Maryland.  They were married in North
Alabama, to which their parents had removed.  The husband
died in 1840.  The wife departed this life in 1870, leaving
this son the only surviving member of the family... Mr.
Bailey began his ministerial life by taking charge, January
01, 1858, of the church which authorized his baptism Liberty
Church, Lawrence county, Alabama.  He married Miss A. B.
Hester, of Fayetterville, Tennessee, on the 18th of January,
1858, a union by which he secured a most intelligent and
zealous helped in his work...  He settled in Perry, Houston
county, Georgia, accepted the Presidency of the Houston
Female College, and preached to several country churches,
for about two years...

Ref:  HISTORY OF THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION IN GEORGIA, 1881,
pp. 16-17.



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