Marshall Monument
Marshall Historical Site
Marshall Historical Site Sign
Daniel Marshall Monument
Abraham Marshall Monument
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Abraham Marshall
Chaplain Col. Stewart's Regt of Minute Men
August 15, 1819
Descendants of Daniel Marshall
Source: "A History of the Kiokee Baptist Church in Georgia"
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James D. Mosteller was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew. J. Mosteller. James was a native of Gainesville, Georgia but he was reared in Florida and he graduated from the Mount Dora High School in Lake County Florida. He received the B. A. in 1940 and the M.A. in 1941 from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. He was ordained in the First Baptist Church of Mount Dora, Florida in June 1940. From 1940-44 he served rural churches in southeast Georgia. He was pastor of the Double Heads and Union Baptist churches in Screven County and served churches in Mount Vernon, Ailey and Longpond in Montgomery County. He was professor of English and Bible at Brewton-Parker Junior College from 1942-44.
He married Miss Iris Carolyn Edmunds the daughter of Clifford A. and Lilla Brock Edmunds of Thomson Georgia. The wedding was performed on December 22, 1941 at Pine Grove Baptist Church near Thomson in McDuffie County. The bride was a graduate of Thomson High School and she attended Bessie Tift College at Forsyth, and Brewton-Parker Junior College in Mount Vernon.
From 1945-49 he was pastor of the Cavalry Baptist Church in Chicago and he completed two years graduate study at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. He transferred to the Northern Baptist Theological Seminary and received his Bachelor of Divinity in 1949. He was appointed Associate Professor of Church History and Missions at that institution. Professor Mosteller received the Doctor of Theology degree from Northern Baptist Theological seminary in Chicago on May 21, 1951. His 420 page doctorial dissertation was a "History of the Kiokee Baptist Church in Georgia," the first Baptist church in the state, organized in 1772 in Saint Paul's Parish, now Columbia county Georgia.
He was 20 years professor of church history at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Chicago and nine years its dean. He joined the New Orleans Seminary faculty on September 1, 1967 and he was residing on the seminary campus at the time of his death. His remains were returned to Georgia and buried at Pine Grove Baptist church where he was married at Christmas time in 1941. He was survived by his wife Mrs. Iris Edmunds Mosteller of New Orleans; one daughter, Mrs. Jim Parra, Austin Texas; one son, Don Mosteller, Hartsville, S.C.; his mother, Mrs. Andrew Mosteller, Mount Dora, Florida and one brother, Paul Mosteller, Thailand.
Submitted by Robert Calhoun
