Elisha Gardner, New Zion Pastor, St. Helena Parish, La.
File submitted by Bonnie Bridges McMillan
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Many thanks goes to Bonnie Bridges McMillan, author of "New
Zion Baptist Church, 1869-1994" from which this file was taken.

ELISHA GARDNER
1898

     Elisha Garner was born in Amite county, Mississippi, April
22, 1867, and was reared on the farm, attending the public schools
until eighteen years of age.  He then taught school in his native
county for four years.  His marriage to Miss Demarias Day occurred
in 1888.  He was converted and united with Mars Hill Church when
eighteen years old, and was ordained to the work of the ministry
in his twenty-fourth year.  Since his ordination he has served
full time as pastor of churches in Amite and Franklin counties.
He is at present (1908) the pastor of New Providence and Ebenezer
churches, having served the former for the past twelve years, and
the latter six years, and is happy in his work.

     Mr. Gardner is original in his thinking and methods; is a 
fluent speaker and a popular preacher.  Being in the prime of
life, and of good health, he is promised many years of useful-
ness and power.

"Abstract History of the Mississippi Baptist Association"
Author: T.C. Schilling