Georgia   Biographies Baptist  Edward Benjamin Barrett

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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 

EDWARD BENJAMIN BARRETT

Rev. Edward Benjamin Barrett, a South Carolinian by birth,
being born in Sumter, South Carolina, January 18, 1834.  His
father moved to Athens in 1852, where he lived till he died
in 1876, and there, in 1852, the subject of this sketch was
converted and baptized by Dr. William T. Brantly... The war
coming on, he went to the army of Northern Virginia, as a
missionary for the Rehoboth Association, but speedily
accepted a chaplaincy in the 45th Georgia Regiment... After
the war, he accepted a call of the Dublin Georgia Baptists,
and served them as pastor four years, teaching as principal
in the Academy there, two of those years. He afterwards
served the greater part of two session in the Georgia
Legislature, and then went to Brunswick, Georgia, where as
pastor of the Baptist church, he remained and labored
successfully for three years.  But the feeble health of his
family compelled his removal to a higher latitude, and he is
now engaged in teaching and farming in the western part of
the State. near Franklin, Heard county.  His is a man of
agreeable presence, good education and excellent heart, and
has been a hard-working, efficient minister of the Gospel.

Ref:  HISTORY OF THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION IN GEORGIA: 1881,
Atlanta, GA, p. 22.


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