Callaway, Rev. Enoch, a distinguished and very useful minister of Georgia, was born in Wilkes County, Sept. 14, 1792.

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Callaway, Rev. Enoch, a distinguished and very useful minister of Georgia, was born in Wilkes County, Sept. 14, 1792. He was converted and” baptized in December, 1808, uniting with Sardis church, at which he was ordained Nov. 7, 1823. He became the pastor of the following churches: Sardis, Rehoboth, County Line, Beaver Dam, in Wilkes County, and of Bairdstown and Mill- town churches, in Oglethorpe County, serving some of them as njuch as twenty-five or thirty years. He died Sept. 12, 1859, at the age of sixty- seven, of an affliction which continued four years. He was never heard to murmur, so wonderful was his patience. Death was not dreaded, but was wel- comed by him. He made the Bible his text-book, and made its study his daily occupation. As a pastor he was faithful, and as a minister he was humble and unostentatious, but highly useful, from his great earnestness and sincerity. His preaching was usually extemporaneous, combining the doc- trinal, practical, and experimental, but he excelled in exhortation. In building up and establishing the cause of Christ in his field of labor few have accomplished more. Decidedly missionary in principle and practice, and a thorough Baptist in doctrine, he left his impress in these respects wherever he la- bored. Of his numerous offspring, numbering now about 300, who are living, it is said that, without exception, they aré all professed Christians and Baptists. From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart- photo and the following info from findagraveEnoch Callaway – 1792-1859from: Callaway Baptist Preachers by Timothy Walton Callaway,D.D. (La Grange, GA: Fuller E. Callaway Foundation, 1953), p. 16 (citing “History of the Baptist Denomination in Georgia: With Biographical Compendium and Portrait Gallery of Baptist Ministers and Other Georgia Baptists by Samuel Boykin (Atlanta: Jas. P. Harrison & Co., 1881):Enoch Callaway was one of the most useful Baptist ministers that ever lived in Georgia, and he owed his usefulness and influence to a sincere piety and a godly walk, united to great industry, zeal, earnestness, promptness and tender sympathy of nature. His decided character and determined energy made him a great worker; and the general confidence in his integrity and veracity gave success to his work. Few have accomplished so much in their field of labor as he, in building up and establishing the Redeemer’s cause; and yet he was a man of but little culture. The common, old field schools of his day furnished his only means of education, aside from his own individual efforts. In religion the Bible was his sole textbook, and to it he gave diligent daily study, comparing Scripture with Scripture in order to ascertain its import, and, on his knees, imploring the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.As a pastor he was most faithful; as a minister he was humble and unostentatious; as a preacher he excelled in exhortation, his sermons being usually extemporaneous, combining the doctrinal, practical and experimental. As a speaker he was slow and unattractive, especially in the beginning; but as he advanced, his interest would increase, want of fervor would gradually diminish, and finally disappear, a hallowed zeal and earnestness would take possession of him, and real eloquence would close the sermon begun with hesitation and seeming coldness.In principle and practice he was a decided missionary, the true secret of his success consisting in godliness of life, abundance of labor and consecration of spirit. In doctrine he was a thorough-going Baptist, leaving his impress as such wherever he labored; and among nearly three hundred of his descendants now living, it is said that all are Baptist who are professors of religion.Rev. Enoch Callaway, it will be seen, was one of the pioneer Baptists of Georgia, who accomplished a great and glorious work. He was born in Wilkes Co., GA, September 14th, 1792, was converted and baptized in December 1808, and united with Sardis Church, at the call of which he was ordained November 7th, 1823. He was pastor of Sardis, Reboboth, County Line and Beaverdam Churches in Wilkes Co., and Baird’s and Millstown Churches in Oglethorpe County. His pastorship of Sardis Church continued for about thirty-two years, and his connection, in the same relation, with Rehoboth for twenty-five. Of course the results of his labors are not accurately known, but thousands were baptized by him, and to his instrumentality fully as many own their conversion.He was united in matrimony to Miss Martha Reeves, December 5th, 1811, and had fourteen children, four of whom died in childhood. He, himself, departed this life September 12th, 1859, at the age of 67. For four years he endured an affliction which was at times inexpressibly severe, yet his resignation, patience and humility were so great that he was never heard to murmur at the bitterness of the cup mingled for his lips. to him death had no terrors, and proved but a welcome messenger to bid him enter into the possession of an incorruptible and unfading inheritance.