Butts County GaArchives Obituaries.....Shaver, Rev. David January 1902
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Jackson Argus
Shaver, Rev. D., D. D.
(Extracts from a very long obituary)
(Editorial, Augusta Chronicle, January 14th)                                        
                           
He Passed to His Reward in Augusta the Past Week.  Mr. David Shaver, Jr. 1221 
Greene Street, surrounded by those who loved him best, the venerable Dr. David 
Shaver died at 820 o’clock last night.  He had been in extremis for several days 
and the family was prepared for the sad event,
Rev. David Shaver, D. D. was one of the oldest Baptist divines in the country.  
He was one of the noblest of men.  Pure, manly, straight forward, of ability and 
of untiring energy, he was for over sixty years an earnest sincere 
unostentatious and successful worker in the cause of Christ.
He was born in Abingdon, Va., of Presbyterian parents, ink November 1820.  He 
professed religion early.  At sixteen he joined the Methodist Protestant church 
and was licensed to preach.
In November, 1844 he adopted Baptist sentiments openly after mature 
investigation, and was baptized at Lynchburg, by Rev. James C. Clopton and was 
ordained to the ministry of the Baptist denomination.
In June 1845 he became pastor of the Lynchburg Baptist chrch where he remained 
until called to succeed  Rev. Dr. Jas. B. Taylor as pastor of the Grace street 
church, Richmond Va., in October 1846.  He also served the Baptist church at 
Hampton, Va., from 1853 to 1857, when he became editor and half owner of the 
Religious Herald, which he held until a year after the surrender of Richmond.
In 1867 he went to Atlanta, Ga., to assume the editorship of the Christian 
Index, from which position he retired in 1874.  In 1878 he was elected professor 
in the Baptist Theological Seminary, maintained by the American Baptist Home 
Mission Society.
Ten years since Dr. Shaver and wife came to Augusta to make his home with his 
son, Mr. David Shaver, Jr.  He was at that time, in a precarious state of 
health, but he gradually recuperated, and had enjoyed a reasonable portion of 
health up to a year ago, when he began to fail, and during the past summer, 
while in Atlanta, he became much worse, and was critically ill.  When he rallied 
he was brought back to his home in this city.
Dr. Shaver lost his faithful and devoted wife August 11th, 1893, and ever since 
then he has been in keen anticipation of his departure from earthly scenes to 
meet the loved ones gone on before.
His remaining family consist of Mr. David Shaver, Jr., aof this city, Mr. A. H. 
Shaver, of the Jackson Argus, and Mrs. Wallace Putnam Reed, of Atlanta, Ga.
Dr. Shaver’s funeral occurred Wednesday morning, but owing to the absence of the 
editor f The Argus in Augusta this week, The Argus postpones any account of his 
funeral until next week.
Jackson Argus – Week of January 17, 1902


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