1857-1917
Adoniram Judson Morgan
Three entries. Five states.
We have discovered three people wearing the name of Adoniram Judson Morgan all living about the same time. Their information is sketchy so I will list them together in this entry.
FIRST. We know the dates of this Adoniram Judson Morgan (1857-1917) but do not know anything about his career. He was born June 15, 1857, in Tennessee and died in Nashville on December 18, 1917, at age 60. He was survived by eight children, two of whom were serving in the armed forces during WWI. Adoniram Judson Morgan was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery in Nashville with Rev. T. C. Ragsdale conducting the services.[1]2387999 ·
SECOND. But there is another Adoniram Judson Morgan whose career we know but whose dates we do not know. His career in the ministry is reported in The Baptist Ministerial Directory (p. 513) but we can find nothing about the time of his birth and death nor the impact of his work.
He was born in Villa Rica, GA, and went to high school in Powder Springs, GA. Rev. Morgan was licensed to preach in August,1880, and ordained two months later by the Chapel Hill Church in Georgia. We will leave the rest of the story in the hands of God.
- 1881-84. Minister, Baptist Church, County Line, Meriwether Co., GA
- 1882-85. Minister, Baptist Church, Sweet Water, Gwinnett Co., GA
- 1885-89. Minister, Baptist Church, Powder Springs, Cobb Co., GA
- 1886. Minister, Baptist Churches, Beulah and Pleasant Hill, Douglas Co., GA
- 1886-98. Minister, Baptist Church, Lost Mountain, Cobb Co., GA[2]
THIRD. The third of five children, Adoniram Judson Morgan (1856-1935) was born on 15 July 1856, in Mississippi to Henry H. Morgan and Caroline Parmelia Sawyer. In 1870, when he was 14 years old, he was living with his parents in Carroll, Mississippi. He married Mary (Mamie) Zenas Smith in 1883 and together they had two sons. One son was named Arthur Judson Morgan (1884-1936). A. J. Morgan lived in Ward One, Caddo, Louisiana, in 1900. He died on 30 May 1935, in Warren, Bradley County, Arkansas, at the age of 78, and was buried in Old Warren Cemetery in a grave that no longer has a headstone.[3]
A FOURTH Adoniram Judson Morgan gets his own entry later in this list: 1884-1950, Adoniram Judson Morgan, Baptist Pastor/Mayor/Judge in TX/TX.
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[1] “Morgan,” The Tennessean (Nashville, TN), Thursday, December 29, 1917, p. 9.
[2] Adoniram Judson Morgan, https://archive.org/details/ministerialdirec00lash/page/512/mode/2up
[3] https://sites.rootsweb.com/~arbradle/cemeteries/old_warren.html