Gwinnett-Walton County GaArchives Biographies.....Jackson, J. Frank September 2 1854 - living in 1911
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Author: J. C. Flanigan
Rev. J. Frank Jackson.

	Bethabra, in Cains district, has the honor of giving to the county and 
state one of the most successful and certainly one of the most remarkable 
ministers in the Baptist denomination in Georgia. Rev. J. Frank Jackson was 
ordained there June 8, 1890.

	Mr. Jackson's native county is Walton. He was born there September 2, 
1854. He joined the church in Monroe in August, 1870, and was baptized by Dr. 
G. A. Nunnally. He was licensed to preach on Saturday before the third Sunday 
in September, 1886, at Cedar Creek, Gwinnett county.

	The Mulberry Association endorsed him as an evangelist in 1889; and in 
October of that year, he preached his first sermon as an evangelist or 
missionary, at Walnut Fork church in Jackson county.

	The first revival he conducted was in July, 1890, under a brush arbor, 
near Messrs. Gip and Billy Wiley's in Jackson county. This was a great 
meeting, and all those joining the church were received into the Walnut Fork 
church. This meeting was the beginning of his evangelistic work, being held a 
month after his ordination at Bethabra in June of that year. Since that time 
he has gone into various sections of the state carrying the old story to those 
who delight to hear him.

	He has been for years engaged in evangelistic work under the auspices 
of the Georgia Baptist convention, and his work may be summed up in a few 
words that tell of the remarkable work of this remarkable man.

	Since his ordination, he has traveled 55,000 miles, visited 25,000 
families, preached 12,000 sermons, delivered 1,000 addresses, talked to 25,000 
persons individually about their salvation, prayed with 7,000 families and 
individuals, received into the, church by letter 1,000, and baptized and 
received for baptism 5,000 people.



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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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