HEARD, JAMES ABRAM, Methodist minister and educator, was born July 29, 1821, at Greensboro County, Ga., and died October 15, 1896, at Florence. Son of Franklin Coffee and Ann Matilda (Bozeman) Heard, grandson of Abram and Nancy (Coffee) Heard and of James and Julia (Mounger) Bozeman, great-grandson of Thomas and Elizabeth (Fitzpatrick) Heard, and great-great grandson of Stephen and Mary (Faulkner) Heard. He received his early education in Augusta, Ga., and Mobile, and graduated from Randolph-Macon College, Va. He studied law and was admitted to the the bar, but being deeply impressed with a call to the gospel, gave up his profession and became an itinerant preacher in 1843. He filled many important stations in both conferences of Alabama, in the Memphis, Tenn. conference, and was a number of times presiding elder. For more than 53 years he was actively in the ministry. He was a ripe scholar and served as president of the Collierville, Tenn. female college, LaGrange, Tenn. female college, and the State normal school, Florence. He was a Mason. Married: in 1846 in Tuskegee to Ann Eliza Houghton. Children: 1. Franklin Coffee, physician, m. Lucy Hunt Taylor of Brownsville, Tenn.; 2. Mattie Hunter, m. Nathaniel Gilmore, Jackson, Tenn.; 3. James A., Jr., m. Fannie Goodwyn, Memphis, Tenn.; 4. Altona Thompson, Collierville, Tenn.; 5. Annie, m. F.F. Boyd of Tenn.; 6. Julian Elder, m. Effie E. Hackney. Last residence: Florence.
Except from "History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Volume III" by Thomas McAdory Owen, 1921.
Except from "History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Volume III" by Thomas McAdory Owen, 1921.
HEARD, JAMES ABRAM, Methodist minister and educator, was born July 29, 1821, at Greensboro County, Ga., and died October 15, 1896, at Florence. Son of Franklin Coffee and Ann Matilda (Bozeman) Heard, grandson of Abram and Nancy (Coffee) Heard and of James and Julia (Mounger) Bozeman, great-grandson of Thomas and Elizabeth (Fitzpatrick) Heard, and great-great grandson of Stephen and Mary (Faulkner) Heard. He received his early education in Augusta, Ga., and Mobile, and graduated from Randolph-Macon College, Va. He studied law and was admitted to the the bar, but being deeply impressed with a call to the gospel, gave up his profession and became an itinerant preacher in 1843. He filled many important stations in both conferences of Alabama, in the Memphis, Tenn. conference, and was a number of times presiding elder. For more than 53 years he was actively in the ministry. He was a ripe scholar and served as president of the Collierville, Tenn. female college, LaGrange, Tenn. female college, and the State normal school, Florence. He was a Mason. Married: in 1846 in Tuskegee to Ann Eliza Houghton. Children: 1. Franklin Coffee, physician, m. Lucy Hunt Taylor of Brownsville, Tenn.; 2. Mattie Hunter, m. Nathaniel Gilmore, Jackson, Tenn.; 3. James A., Jr., m. Fannie Goodwyn, Memphis, Tenn.; 4. Altona Thompson, Collierville, Tenn.; 5. Annie, m. F.F. Boyd of Tenn.; 6. Julian Elder, m. Effie E. Hackney. Last residence: Florence.
Except from "History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Volume III" by Thomas McAdory Owen, 1921.
Except from "History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Volume III" by Thomas McAdory Owen, 1921.
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JAMES ABRAM HEARD
BORN JULY 28, 1821
DIED OCT. 15, 1896
AGED 75 YRS. 2 MOS. 18 DAYS
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