Gwinnett-Oconee County GaArchives Biographies.....Jennings, E. H. December 6 1883 - living in 1911
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Author: J. C. Flanigan
Rev. E. H. Jennings.

	Ernest Henry Jennings was born December 6th, 1883, in Oconee county, 
Georgia.

	His childhood and youth were spent on the farm where he worked with 
his father and four older brothers and attended the country schools. At the 
age of sixteen he was converted and joined the Mars Hill Missionary Baptist 
church, being baptized by Rev. L. T. Reed.

Mr. Jennings was an earnest student of the Bible from childhood. This, 
together with the godly influence of his mother and the Sunday school had much 
to do with his early decision for the ministry. He began preaching at eighteen 
and was ordained by Mars Hill church January 18, 1903, being then nineteen 
years of age. He was known for some years as the "boy preacher.”

	After attending the country schools he entered the Winder public 
school January, 1902. After one term here he spent two years at Perry-Rainey-
Institute, Auburn, from which he graduated in 1904. Later he attended the 
state university at Athens and the Baptist Seminary at Louisville, Ky. While 
in school at Auburn, he served Antioch church in Gwinnett county, this being 
his first pastorate, and assisted Rev. H. N. Rainey in his field, including 
Mt. Moriah, Appalachee and Cedar Creek. January 1, 1907, Mr. Jennings became 
pastor of the Lawrenceville and Norcross Baptist churches, which he served 
successfully for three years. While in Lawrenceville, he also preached at 
Collins Hill. While holding this pastorate, quite a number of people were 
added to the churches and considerable strides made in the financial 
development of the same. December 28, 1906, Mr. Jennings was married to Miss 
Bertie Miller, daughter of H. D. Miller, of Auburn.

	From Lawrenceville he went to Greensboro, Ga., and from thence to 
Dothan, Alabama, being now the pastor of the First Baptist church of that 
goodly city.


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GWINNETT CHURCHES
A COMPLETE HISTORY OF EVERY CHURCH
IN GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA,
WITH SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF ITS
MINISTERS
BY
J. C. FLANIGAN
1911

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