1855 Resolution of Respect for Rev. George Everett of Union Cross Roads, Union Parish Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 11/2004


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1855 Resolution of Respect for Rev. George Everett of Union Cross Roads, Union Parish Louisiana

From the Minutes of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cahaba Baptist Association, held 
at Hopewell Church in Perry County Alabama between October 19th and 22nd, 1855.
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                            FOR THE CAHABA ASSOCIATION.
Another watchman upon the walls of Zion has fallen, in the person of 
Elder George Everett; and while we should bow in meek submission to every dispensation of 
Divine Providence, yet we deem it a christian duty and esteem it a privilege, to bear 
testimony to departed worth; therefore, 

Resolved, That we have heard of the death of our brother George Everett, with profound 
emotions; that we remember him as an exemplary and zealous christian, and as an 
indefatigable and efficient Minister of the Gospel, who dispensed the word of life in the 
bounds of this Association some twenty years, – who boldly proclaimed its truths and 
faithfully practised [sic] its precepts, and whose whole heart and mind were engaged for 
the salvation of sinners; as a member of this Association for many years, we call to mind 
with melancholy pleasure his affable manners, his brotherly affection and christian 
fidelity; and we commend to our brethren in their christian intercourse the examples of 
this lamented brother. Brother Everett emigrated to Louisiana about six years ago. From 
reliable information he was equally indefatigable and useful in his new field of labor 
collecting the scattering and unassociated Baptist emigrants into covenanted bodies, and 
baptizing repentant sinners into their fellowship to the time of his death.

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Note: Rev. George Everett settled in northern Union Parish Louisiana near the 
Arkansas line in 1848. He was a Baptist minister and plantation owner. He 
preached in and around Perry County Alabama between 1828 and 1848. Everett 
founded the Springhill Baptist Church in 1849 and served as its minister 
until his death in 1855. He also served other churches in Union Parish as 
well as Union County Arkansas and other areas in southern Arkansas. He 
founded the Union Cross Roads post office in 1852 and served as its postmaster 
between 7 May 1852 and 18 April 1854. He died near Pigeon Hill, in Union County 
Arkansas. 


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