Daily Baptist Encyclopedia Battle, Rev. Henry W., the gifted young pastor at Columbus, Miss.,

Daily Baptist Encyclopedia Battle, Rev. Henry W., the gifted young pastor at Columbus, Miss., belongs to a distinguished family in the South, being a son of Maj.-Gen. Cullen A. Battle, and a nephew of A. J. Battle, D.D., president of Mercer University. He was born in Tuskegee, Ala., in 1855, and admitted to the practice of law at the age of nineteen; but abandoning the most flattering worldly prospects, he entered the Southern Baptist Theological Sem- inary at Louisville, Ky., where he remained some time, and then accepted the pastorate of the First Baptist church at Columbus, Miss., where the suc- cess of his labors gives promise of great future usefulness.From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart- photos from findagrave(I am attaching further information on his life from his obituary- curiously the obituary and the Encyclopedia article list his birth in 1855 but the headstone (seemingly a replacement stone) lists 1853)

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