According to some sources, a new Alabama Baptist newspaper is established today with the first publication of the bi-weekly Christian Herald at Moulton. Josephus Shackelford (1830-1915) is the editor. From the 1850s to the present Shackleford pastored a number of churches in the Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama region, while also teaching at various small Baptist…
Josephus Shackelford (1830-1915) of Moulton, Alabama today enters the Baptist newspaper business. From the 1850s to the present he has pastored a number of churches in the Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama region, while also teaching at various small Baptist institutions. He also served in two wars, the War with Mexico and the Civil War. Of…
Today Rhode Island Baptists send to President Andrew Johnson a copy of a resolution regarding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Providence, R. I., April 29, 1SG5. Sir: At a meeting of the Rhode Island Baptist State Convention, held in the city of Providence, April 25, 1865, the following resolutions, reported by Rev. Dr. Caswell, were…