Gwinnett-Habersham County GaArchives Biographies.....Brookshire, J. B. July 7 1868 - living in 1911
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Author: J. C. Flanigan
Rev. J. B. Brookshire.

	Rev. John B. Brookshire, the present pastor of the Auburn and Carl 
Baptist churches, was born July 7, 1868 in Habersham county, Ga., among the 
foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. His father was a Confederate soldier 
and lost a foot in the battle of Gettysburg. When growing up, his father being 
poor was not able to help him in the way of an education. His father looked to 
him for help to support the family.

	At about the age of 18, he was converted and joined the church at 
Providence, his father's and mother's old church, and was baptized in Soque 
River. When about 26 years old he felt a call to the ministry and saw his need 
of an education. He worked his way through the common school grades and 
through the high school; and was all the while dreaming of what then seemed to 
him to be the impossible, going through college.

	He was ordained to the ministry in 1897 at South Union, S. C. Having 
taught school that year and saving up about $60, he resolved to apply for 
admittance into the Freshman class in Mercer University. He took the 
examination and was admitted. He received some help from the ministerial fund, 
borrowed some money and served some country churches, and by using close 
economy gathered means enough to go through college. After staying four years, 
he graduated in 1901 at the age of 33, with the A. B. degree. The day he 
received his diploma was one of the happiest days of his life.

	Soon after graduation he accepted the school at Edison, Ga., and the 
pastorate of the church at Arlington. In the fall of 1902 he entered the 
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louiville, Ky. He studied the full 
Greek and Hebrew course for one term. He left the seminary then to do mission 
work on the frontier in South West Texas. After working there one year he was 
employed as missionary pastor of Karnes City and Stockdale, under the State 
Mission Board of Texas. After serving here one year he returned to Georgia, 
his native state, and married Miss Texie York of Rabun county, a school 
teacher, and they went into the educational work. He was president one year of 
the Hightower Baptist Institute, Cumming, Georgia. He then accepted the 
Presidency of Perry-Rainey Institute, Auburn, Ga., which position he held 
three years. Since giving up the school work he has been giving full time to 
the ministry.


Additional Comments:
From:

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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