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John Gill Landrum

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John Gill Landrum
ChurchBaptist
Installed1830
Term ended1882
PredecessorThomas Bomar
Orders
Ordination1830
Personal details
Born(1810-10-22)October 22, 1810
DiedJanuary 19, 1882(1882-01-19) (aged 71)
Landrum, South Carolina
NationalityAmerican
DenominationBaptist
SpouseElizabeth Montgomery

John Gill Landrum (October 22, 1810 – January 19, 1882) was a Baptist pastor from Spartanburg, South Carolina,[1] the namesake of Landrum, South Carolina.[2] He signed the South Carolina Ordinance of Secession.

He was most prominently at Mount Zion Baptist Church, where he is buried. He also served Bethlehem Baptist Church.

Early years

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Landrum was born to Rev. Merriman Landrum in Rutherford County, Tennessee.[3] He was baptized in 1824, and moved to South Carolina in 1828.[4]

American Revolution

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He was conversant in the history of the state, and when a monument was erected on the Cowpens battlefield in 1856, gave a speech.[5] He was also at the 1855 celebration of the Battle of King's Mountain.[6]

Landrum gave the funeral sermon for Joshua Hawkins, a member of his church and hero of both Cowpens and King's Mountain. Hawkins had a ball from a British gun in his leg all his life, but did not wish to be buried with it. Landrum exhibited the ball at his funeral.[7]

Civil War

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He was a delegate to the secession convention of South Carolina and signed the Ordinance of Secession.[8] During the Civil War, he was a Confederate who was the chaplain of the 13th Infantry regiment.[9]

Personal

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He was the father of physician and town historian J. B. O. Landrum.[10] He was a contributor to the Southern Harmony; another contributor was Matilda T. Durham, at whose marriage he officiated.[11] On his death, musician A. J. Turner wrote this acrostic:

Lo! a Prince in Zion has been taken away.

And mourners thread the streets day after day.

No face is seen that does not deepest sorrow show;

Departed are our joys and only bitter woe

Remains, since thou, oh! Counselor and friend,

Unto thy grave are gone can no longer lend

Mankind thy sage advise - God pity on us send.[12]

References

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  1. ^ "Our History - First Baptist Spartanburg". www.fbs.org.
  2. ^ "First Baptist Church Landrum - Landrum, South Carolina". scpictureproject.org. 21 August 2015.
  3. ^ H. P. Griffith (1885). "The life and times of Rev. John G. Landrum". Philadelphia, H. B. Garner. p. 19.
  4. ^ History of the Baptist Denomination in Georgia: With Biographical Compendium and Portrait Gallery of Baptist Ministers and Other Georgia Baptists. J.P. Harrison & Company. 30 November 1881. p. 321 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ History of Spartanburg County, p. 639
  6. ^ "Celebration of the Battle of King's Mountain, October 1855, and the address of ... J. S. Preston, etc". 30 November 2018 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ "The American Monthly Magazine". R.R. Bowker Company. 30 November 2018 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ Relic of the Lost Cause
  9. ^ Snay, Mitchell (1 September 1997). Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South. UNC Press Books. ISBN 9780807846872 – via Google Books.
  10. ^ Project, Federal Writers' (31 October 2013). The WPA Guide to South Carolina: The Palmetto State. Trinity University Press. ISBN 9781595342386 – via Google Books.
  11. ^ Steel, David Warren; Hulan, Richard H. (30 November 2018). The Makers of the Sacred Harp. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252077609 – via Google Books.
  12. ^ "The life and times of Rev. John G. Landrum". p. 260
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