GEORGIA BIOGRAPHIES: EDWARD P. POSTELL

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SOURCE: GEORGIA BAPTIST: HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, Jesse
H. Campbell [1847] 1993, published by Oldbuck Press Inc., PO
Box 1623. Conway, Arkansas 72034, pp. 173-178.      A copy
of this book can be purchased for $21.00 postage paid from
the publisher.

Edward P. Postell, is believed to have been a native of
South Carolina. At an early age, he entered the service of
his country, [as a midshipman in the navy] in which he
remained three years.  Returning home, he studied the law
and was admitted to the bar in South Carolina….  He
connected himself with the South Newport Baptist Church,
McIntosh County…

He was called to ordination by the South Newport church, and
soon Afterwards to become their pastor…

[A letter to his brother tells of how he almost died saving
his young son from drowning.]

Some time after this, he was confined to his bed to rise no
more.  It was a bed of pain and suffering, yet no a murmur
escaped his lips…  A ministering brother, who was with him
the day before his decease, beholding his situation and
observing that every moment was spent in struggling for
breath, stated to his brother Postell that his painful
condition forced upon his mind the folly of putting off
repentance to a deathbed…

His death was about nine o’clock, Wednesday night, the 7th
of October,  [1837],  in the 38th year of his age.