Gwinnett-Lumpkin County GaArchives Biographies.....Wooten, W. J. 1841 - living in 1911
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Author: J. C. Flanigan
Rev. W. J. Wooten.

	Rev. W. J. Wooten was born in Lumpkin county, Georgia, in 1841. He was 
converted in Dahlonega in 1855 at the age of fourteen, and joined the Baptist 
church there.

	He was ordained in 1858 when only 17 years old, and attended Mercer 
University, then at Penfield, in 1859, 1860 and a portion of 1861.

	He volunteered his sword to the service of the Confederacy on the 11th 
day of March, 1862 and served through the war. He returned to his home after 
the surrender in 1865, was married to Miss S. A. Merck of Gainesville, October 
12, 1865, and moved from Dahlonega to Norcross in 1872.

	During his ministry, he has served the Baptist churches at Dahlonega, 
Cumming, Gainesville, Buford, Suwanee, Lawrenceville, Sharon, Cross Plains, 
Carnesville, Providence, Dunwoody. These churches were blessed with revivals 
under his ministry and numbers joined the church and were buried by him in 
baptism.

	In 1873, he was appointed city missionary by the First Baptist Church 
of Atlanta in which capacity he worked six months. In 1875, The American Tract 
Society appointed him as missionary and colporteur, and for 14 consecutive 
years, he traveled and worked for that society, organizing several churches 
and Sunday schools and circulating more than eight thousand dollars' worth of 
religious literature. This work was confined to East Georgia. C. A. Davis, of 
Greensboro, Ga., paid his salary of $50 per month, and then sending his 
personal check for $25 to purchase Bibles for the destitute.

	The American Bible Society then appointed him to a like position, in 
which capacity he worked two years.

	He served churches after leaving this society up to 1903, and was 
employed by the Jacksonville, Florida, Association to do mission work. He was 
engaged in this work for six years. His health failed which necessitated his 
giving up the work. He now lives at Norcross, an honored and influential 
citizen.


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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