1853-1916

Adoniram Judson Wharton

Baptist Pastor    Arkansas/Texas       AR/TX

When Adoniram Judson Wharton was born on 8 March 1853, in Bradley, Arkansas, his father, James Campbell Wharton, was 44 and his mother, Amanda Jane Lunsford, was 29. He was child number 9 of 13. His sister, number 6, was named Nancy Ann Wharton thus carrying both names used for Ann Hasseltine Judson, the wife of Adoniram the missionary.

Wharton was licensed to the gospel ministry in October 1873 and ordained three years later at the New Hope Church in Arkansas. He held pastorates in Atlanta, AR, and in Texas at Weatherford, Dawson, Comanche, Longview, Smithville, Bremond, and Groesbeck.[1]

Wharton married Martha Letitia ‘Letty’ Eagar on 22 December 1870, in Bradley, Arkansas, and together they had six children, 2 sons and 4 daughters. In the 1900 census, he lived in Justice Precinct 5, Robertson, Texas, and 10 years later was registered in Arcadia, Bienville Parish, Louisiana. He died on 20 January 1916, in Red River, Texas, at the age of 62, and was buried there in the Bogata Cemetery.[2]

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[1] Lasher, The Ministerial Directory of the Baptist Churches…, p. 777.

[2] Adoniram Judson Wharton, https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LCRX-ZQS/rev-adroniram-judson-wharton-1853-1916

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