Barnwell County, SC - Biographies - J. O. Cumbie 1817 - 1867
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Author: Alexander Lee Miller Moderator of Bethel Association

                        J. O. CUMBIE
                         1817 - 1867

     Brother J. O. Cumbie was born in Barnwell District, South Carolina on the 
23rd day of July 1817.  In early life he moved to Georgia and settled in Pike 
County, where, in his nineteenth year he was ordained to the Gospel Ministry by 
his father and Rev. B. Stricklin.  For thirty one years he gave himself to the 
work of His Divine Master.  And though he had in his later days a very large 
family to support, yet he did not relax his energies or diminish his labors in 
the vineyard. He did not enjoy the benefits of an early education, yet by 
diligent and thorough study of the sacred Scriptures, he supplied his 
educational deficiencies, and became an earnest and useful minister of the 
Gospel, with unabated zeal and full consecration to his Master.  He was an 
aggressive and useful pastor and served many different churches in the Bethel 
Association.  He fell at his post with the armor on, at the age of fifty years 
and one day, in the year 1867.

(page 269)


"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


Additional Comments:
following notes added by Debra Crosby
Georgia Marriages Stewart County Cumbie, James O - Clyatt, Lucy 05 Mar 1837

possible father of above J. O. Cumbie ?
1850 Pike Co. page 160 district 68
529 - Cumbie   James       76 SC Farmer
               Elizabeth   48 SC
               William A.  18 SC
	       Solomon S.  14 GA
               Lucinda L.  12 GA
	       Nancy A.	    8 GA
               Martha E.    6 GA
               Jacob T.	    4 Ga

1860 Coffee Co. Al. pg. 897 P. O. Hendersons Store Election Precinct 9
999- Cumbie  James       76 SC Minister
	     Elizabeth   58 SC
	     Nancy       18 Ga
	     Martha C.	 16 Ga
	     Jacob T.    14 Ga
             Anna         8 Fl