Unknown County GaArchives Biographies.....Winn, Thomas Sumner 1792 - 1819
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Author: J. H. Campbell

THOMAS SUMNER WINN

  A son of Deacon Peter Winn, of Liberty county, Georgia, was born July 16th,
1792. His parents had been members of the Presbyterian church at Medway, but in
seeking for the proofs of infant sprinkling, they were unable to find them in
the Bible. Thomas was usher to Dr. McWhir in Sunbury Academy, in his seventeenth
year. A letter addressed to him by his mother, and left on his table, was the
means of his awakening. In 1813, he entered Hampden Sydney College, Virginia,
but did not continue long in that institution. While attending an academy in
Warren county, North Carolina, he was baptized and soon returned home, was
ordained pastor of North Newport church, Liberty county, and preached with great
acceptance throughout all the low country. He seemed to be conscious that his
race would be short, for all his powers were devoted to the great work with
untiring energy and flaming zeal. Perhaps few men have done so much good in so
little time; and few, very vew, have been so ripe for heaven at so early a
period of life. He was a young man of great promise, and that was a most
mysterious providence that took him from the field of his labors. He died
January 27th, 1819, about twenty-seven years old. As Professor Ripley, of Newton
Theological Seminary, (Mr. Winn's successor in the pastoral office,) has written
a more extended biography of him, the reader is referred to that work as one of
much interest.


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GEORGIA BAPTISTS: HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL
BY
J. H. CAMPBELL,
PERRY, GEORGIA.


MACON, GA.: J. W. BURKE & COMPANY. 1874.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
J. H. CAMPBELL,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.





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