Harris-Muscogee County GaArchives obits.....Rev. Green Berry Waldrop
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Rev. Green Berry Waldrop was my gr gr grandpapa. 1794-
1854, lived in Hamilton Georgia, Harris County, for
fourteen years. He was the minister for Bethle Baptist
Church, Flat Rock , Georgia, ( which is now in
Muscogee County, Columbus, Georgia.) from 1832 until
1839. The Columbus Baptist Assoc. reads that when Rev.
G. B. Waldrop left, Rev. C. C. Willis was the
ministers for many years.

Rev. G. B. Waldrop his family lived in Hamilton,
Georgia. Rev. G, B. Waldrop was on the Baptist
Prestbytery and help constituted most  of the Churches
in Taylor, Talbot,Muscogee, and Harris Counties and
other surrounding areas. He moved to DeSoto County, in
1840 where he stay active in God's work until the day
he died October 1854.

Rev. Green Berry Waldrop was the papa of Dr. Joseph
Ryan Waldrop who was ambushed and killed in 1870 while
serving State Rep. of Washington County, Alabama 1868-
1870.

The Obit starts:
Writer C. B. Young

Departed this life, October 1854, at the resident of
the writer, in Panola County, Mississippi, Eld. G. B.
Waldrop, after confined ten days--age 60 years, 5
months and 24 days.

He was born in Lauren District: South Carolina, April
29, 1791 (correction 1794); made a public profession
of religion in 1821, and was Baptized Riles(Correction
Ryan) into the fellowship of the church called "Five
Miles", Green County, Alabama in August the same year.
In the fall of 1829, the Church licensed him to preach
the gospel, and in the soring he was set apart to the
solemn and important work of the ministry, by a
presbytery consisting of John Cooper and C. Caldwell,
in Harris County Ceorgia, where he labored efficiently
for a numbers of years.  After which he moved to
Mississippi and continuted laboring in his Master's
vineyard until his death.  I have no synopsis  of his
ministerial labors, consequently I can only give a
brief account of his travels during the last few
months of his life,-- Finding his constitution much
impared, form constant pastoral labors for thirty
years, he thought best best to give up his charge and
travel for his health.  Accordingly he set out last
spring.  (taking his age companion with him) to visit
some of the mineral watering places , and to spend
some time with a brother, form who he had been
separted for years..  After a tour of about five
months, he found, as he supposed his health
sufficently

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improved to return home; and, on his return visiting
the chickasaw and Panola Assoc., where I met with him
in as fine spirits, AS I thought, as I ever saw him,
and where he preached wit as much seeming ability and
zeal as he had don for years.  On taking leave of the
brethren, he delivered a short by feeling address,
exhoring them to stick ( to use his own phase) to the
old landmarks,--closing with remark( the last ever
made by him in the character of a public speaker,)
which the writer will long remember.  Brethren, said
he, I shall soon be gone, and when you it it, say
there (sic) is a sinner saved by grace.  After which
he set out for Cold Water Association, where he was ,
according  to previous appointment, to preach the
introduction sermon-- intending from there to return
home, a distance of twenty miles.  But, in this, he
and his friends were disappointed, for the next
evening, he laid aside his earthly garments to take
them no more.

During his ten days illness, such was (sic) his
concern and conversation in relation to the peace and
prosperity of the zion of the Lord, which he so much
loved, that he never for once, though surrounded by
wife and part of his children, mentioned his worldly
estate-- having arranged his worldly matters before he
left home-- thus in life preparing for death, so that,
when death came he had nothing to do but fall asleep
in Jesus.

Waldrop Con't   Page 3

In his death, his wife has lost a devoted husband, his
chilldren an affectionate father, and the church a
serious and efficient minister of the gospel.  He was
a Baptist, a Primitive Baptist.  But he is gone to
rest from his labors, and his works do follow him.  He
has left an aged companion, three sons and one
daughter, besides many warm-hearted breathen and
friends to mourn their irreparable loss.  But we
sorrow not as those who have no hope.  For we believe
that Jesus died and rose again and even so then also
that sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.  Let us
live the life of  the righteous, that our last end may
be like unto his. C. B. Young(Writer)