John Gill Landrum
John Gill Landrum | |
|---|---|
| Church | Baptist |
| Installed | 1830 |
| Term ended | 1882 |
| Predecessor | Thomas Bomar |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1830 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 22, 1810 |
| Died | January 19, 1882 (aged 71) Landrum, South Carolina |
| Nationality | American |
| Denomination | Baptist |
| Spouse | Elizabeth 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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ "Our History - First Baptist Spartanburg". www.fbs.org.
- ^ "First Baptist Church Landrum - Landrum, South Carolina". scpictureproject.org. 21 August 2015.
- ^ H. P. Griffith (1885). "The life and times of Rev. John G. Landrum". Philadelphia, H. B. Garner. p. 19.
- ^ 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.
- ^ History of Spartanburg County, p. 639
- ^ "Celebration of the Battle of King's Mountain, October 1855, and the address of ... J. S. Preston, etc". 30 November 2018 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The American Monthly Magazine". R.R. Bowker Company. 30 November 2018 – via Google Books.
- ^ Relic of the Lost Cause
- ^ Snay, Mitchell (1 September 1997). Gospel of Disunion: Religion and Separatism in the Antebellum South. UNC Press Books. ISBN 9780807846872 – via Google Books.
- ^ Project, Federal Writers' (31 October 2013). The WPA Guide to South Carolina: The Palmetto State. Trinity University Press. ISBN 9781595342386 – via Google Books.
- ^ Steel, David Warren; Hulan, Richard H. (30 November 2018). The Makers of the Sacred Harp. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252077609 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The life and times of Rev. John G. Landrum". p. 260
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| National | |
- 1810 births
- 1882 deaths
- People from Spartanburg, South Carolina
- Confederate States Army personnel
- People of South Carolina in the American Civil War
- 19th-century Baptist ministers from the United States
- People from Rutherford County, Tennessee
- Baptists from Tennessee
- Religious leaders from South Carolina
- Shape note