Unknown County GaArchives Biographies.....Davis, Jonathan 
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Author: Alexander Lee Miller Moderator of Bethel Baptist  Association
                      JONATHAN DAVIS

     Jonathan Davis, one of the outstanding preachers of the Bethel Association 
and one among its first Moderators, having served as Moderator in the years 
1841, 1842, 1843, and 1846.  He died in the year 1869.  The exact date of his 
birth nor his death is not known.  For fifty years, perhaps,  he had been a 
Baptist and most of that time a minister.  His history is intimately connected 
with that  of Georgia Baptists.  The best years of his ministerial life were 
crowned with great results.  More than 15,000 persons, according to his 
account, were baptized by him.  He did much towards the building up of the 
Baptist Institution at Penfield.

     Brother Davis was truly a good man, Naturally,  he had few equals, nor was 
there any more attractive preacher than he, in his own State, and of  his own 
order for years.

     In the domestic and social relations he exhibited extreme warmth of heart 
and generosity.  His charity was great for the erring,  his hand was ready to 
aid the weak and  he was a lover of good men.  His last days however were not 
such as his brethren desired, but the Committee said of him, "His virtues and 
noble qualities let us imitate."

(page 284)


"History of Bethel Association - Including Centennial Meeting"
Centennial meeting held with Baptist church at
Edison, Georgia, October 25, 26, 27, 1932
A. L. Miller, Edison, Ga., Moderator.
W. H. Joyner, Coleman, Ga., Clerk

Complied and Edited by
Alexander Lee Miller 
Moderator of Association
1909 -- 1934


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