Georgia Biographies Baptist Benjamin Blitch File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Barbara Winge barbarawinge@yahoo.com http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Georgia Table of Contents: 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, BENJAMIN BLITCH Benjamin Blitch was born in November 1811, in Effingham county, Georgia... His zeal and acceptability as a preacher occasioned his ordination. In 1863, at the age of forty-two years, by a presbytery... For two years from this date, he served Calvary church as pastor, and then, moved by the sacred impulse to carry the Gospel into the "regions beyond," he made his home in Ware County. There for twenty-four years, he labored to supply the destitution prevailing through that county, Pierce, Appling, and others - a work the record of which is on high. He transferred his abode and his ministry to Tatnall county. Miss Harriet Wilson had been his wife for 47 years. She bore him fourteen children; and, of her eight sons, four, like the father, are ministers of the Gospel. Ref: HISTORY OF THE BAPTIST DENIMINATION IN GEORGIA, 1881, Atlanta, GA, p. 17. ======================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for FREE access. ==============