Sumter County GaArchives Obituaries.....John F. Markett September 3 1882 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: John Adams traceradams@cox.net February 2, 2003, 9:35 pm THE GOSPEL MESSENGER Butler, Ga., Jan., 1883, Vol. 5, No. 1 Deacon John F. Markett, of Providence Church, Sumter Co., Ga. departed this life September 3rd, 1882. He was born in Jones County, N.C., and moved with his father, Joseph Markett, at the age of 12, to Jones County, Ga.; from whence he moved, when grown up, to Upson County, Ga.; where he married , in 1832, to Sarah Bozeman, when he moved to Crawford County. He joined the Primitive Baptist Church, 9th September, 1843, and was baptized by Elder Jack Barker, and was ordained deacon of Ebenezer Church, 10th April, 1847. In 1848 he moved to Sumter County, Ga., and joined the church at Providence, of which he continued an honored and useful member and deacon until his death. By Elder John Richard Respess Reprinted in the January, 1997 TAYLOR COUNTY TRACER This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb