J.P. Harrington, 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.

J.P. HARRINGTON
1900

     J.P. Harrington was born in May, 1873 at Vernon, Alabama.
His parents were A.L. and Bettie Guyton Harrington who made their
living as farmers in a poverty stricken time and area.  Bro. Har-
rington was converted while living at Columbus, Mississippi in 
1886 and later studied at Mississippi College at Clinton and the
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
Bro. Harrington served as pastor at Cornith, Mississippi, Aberdeen,
Mississippi, Vicksburg, Mississippi, and Crystal Springs, Mississ-
ippi, before coming to the Amite Church.  He married Miss Emma
Sigrest in 1897 and his life was greatly influenced by Dr. J.L.
Johnson, H.E. Ray of Corinth and W.G. Peugh of Aberdeen.

     Bro. Harrington died on November 27, 1946 at the age of
seventy-three and with a life time of accomplishments in Miss-
issippi and Louisiana.

"A History of First Baptist Church, Amite, La."
By: Ann L. Schilling and Jerry M. Windsor

     Rev. John Preston Harrington, 73, died early Wednesday mor-
ning, November 27 at the family residence at 1186 Pecan Boulevard,
after an illness of six months.

     A native of Vernon, Ala., Mr. Harrington was pastor of Baptist
churches at Crystal Springs, Waco, Texas, Vicksburg, Corinth, and 
Louisville, Miss.

     He came to Jackson in 1927, and helped to organize the Park-
way Baptist church.  He was superintendent of the Old Men's Home
for 12 years.

     Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Emma S. Harrington; two sons,
Jack P. and Paul B. Harrington, both of Jackson; a daughter, Mrs.
E.C., Beck of Hughes, Ark; a brother, J.A. Harrington of Lathrop,
Mo.; three sisters, Mrs. I.C. Miller of Meridian, Mrs. Brock West-
brook of Caledonia, and Mrs. Emma Box of Sulligent, Ala.

     Funeral services were held from Baldwin funeral chapel at
10 a.m. Thursday, with Dr. W.D. Hudgins and Dr. W.A. Hewitt
officiating.  Interment was in Cedarlawn cemetery.

     Pallbearers were Emmett Dixon, Ray Baird, J.W. Bethune,
Marion Dampeer, and J.T. Biggs and Earl Barron of Crystal
Springs.

"The Baptist Record"