Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Martin, Joshua January 28 1908
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Cairo Messenger, February 7, 1908
A Pioneer Preacher Gone
Rev. Joshua Martin, an aged Baptist minister, well known to many of our 
readers, died, at the home of one of his daughters, Miss Missouri, in 
Bainbridge, on Tuesday, the 28th, utl., and was buried in Whigham, his former 
home, the following day.  Funeral services were held at the Baptist church, in 
the latter place, at 2:30 p.m. participated by Dr. R. H. Harris of Cairo, Elder 
T. A. White of Thomasville and Elder Mays and Christopher, of Whigham.  A full-
house congregation attended the exercises and joined in the procession to the 
cemetery, near by, where the interment took place, after a series of 
appropriate discourses, prayers and songs, in the building.

Elder Martin is said to have been the first Baptist minister to preach in the 
region between this point and the Chattahoochee; in which section he did a 
great work, in his day, baptizing many people and constituting several 
churches.   He was the founder of the Whigham Baptist church, in which his 
membership remained until his death; and he was, also, its pastor until 
disqualified for service, by old age and physical infirmity.
He was, likewise, the first pastor of the Baptist church in Cairo, and, during 
his long ministry, he served numbers of other churches in the southwestern 
corner of Georgia.

The old gentleman lived to complete his eighty sixth year; surviving his 
beloved wife by about ten years.  He, in turn, is survived by one son, Mr. 
Charles H. Martin of Bainbridge and six daughters: Mrs. H. Mock of Pelham, Mrs. 
B. F. Powell of Cairo, Miss Missouri Martin of Bainbridge, Mrs. M. L. Stanley 
of Hickory Head, Mrs. A. R. Butler of Savannah, and Mrs. J. C. Cliett of 
Bainbridge.  Mrs. E. C. Mauldin and Messrs. Aden and Sudrey Powell of Cairo are 
his grandchildren; and, besides these, several other grand and great 
grandchildren are living.  A grand man, of blessed memory, is gone.


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