Georgia Biographies Baptist- Rev. Jonathan Davis d. 1869
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From "History of Bethel Association Including
Centennial Meeting", by Alexander Lee Miller

JONATHAN DAVIS
 
Jonathan Davis, one of the outstanding preachers of the Bethel Association and one among its 
first Moderators, having served as Moderator in the year 1841, 1842, 1843, and 1846.  He died 
in the year 1869.  The exact date of his birth nor his death is not known.  For fifty years, 
perhaps, he had been a Baptist, and most of that time a minister.  His history is intimately 
connected with that of Georgia Baptists.  The best years of his ministerial life were crowned 
with great results.  More than 15,000 persons, according to his account, were baptized by him.  
He did much towards the building up of the Baptist Institution at Penfield.

Brother Davis was truly a good man.  Naturally, he had few equals, nor was there any more attractive 
preacher than he, in his own State, and of his own order for years.

In the domestic and social relations he exhibited extreme warmth of heart and generosity.  His 
charity was great for the erring, his hand was ready to aid the weak and he was a lover of good men.  
His last days however were not such as his brethren desired, but the Committee said of him, "His 
virtues and noble qualities let us imitate."