GEORGIA BIOGRAPHIES: CHARLES O. SCREVEN, D. D.

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SOURCE: GEORGIA BAPTISTS: HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, Jesse
H. Campbell [1847] 1993, published by Oldbuck Press, Inc.,
PO Box 1623, Conway, Arkansas 72034, pp. 40-50.     A copy
of this book Can be purchased for $21.00 postage paid from
the publisher.

Charles Odingsell Screven was the son of Gen. James Screven,
who was killed during the revolution, by a party of Tories
and Indians near Medway Meeting House, Liberty County,
Georgia.  He was born in1744; and in February, 1786, when
twelve years of age, was baptized by Dr. Furman in
Charleston, S. C….  he passed as a student in Brown
University, R. I., where he graduated- and came at once to
the Commencement of his ministry in Sunbury, Liberty County…

He was married to a Mrs. Jones, the mother of Rev. Charles
B. Jones, late of Savannah, and now of Florida.  With this
amiable lady he lived only about a year.  She died, leaving
him one child, who is also a minister of the gospel, Rev.
James O. Screven…

In the year 1813, he was married to the present Mrs. Barbara
R. Screven; by whom he had several children.  Of these,
three are still living.  At this time, he was afflicted with
the disease in the eye which terminated his life.  From 1802
to 1821, though he suffered severely from his diseased eye,
yet his labors were uninterrupted.  From 1821 to the time of
his dissolution, his increasing affliction necessarily
interrupted his faithful labors….

His emancipated spirit took its flight about six o’clock
Friday morning 2d of July, 1830- aged fifty-seven years…




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