Download or read book Letter 1848 Oct 18 Shelbyville Ky to My Dear Nephew John Albert Broadus written by William F. Broaddus and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broaddus wrote that he was truly gratified to hear that "you are giving your time to the work of the ministry." Complains that "your Father" who is "my eldest brother, whom I have always sincerely loved," has not written since January 1847. "Once I attempted a correspondence with you; but you dropped it suddenly. Madison and Martha also both failed to respond to my letters. Meanwhile, your excellent mother died, and not one of the family ever wrote me a line and to this day, I am totally ignorant of the particulars of her death." Says his own ministry in Kentucky has "not been much blessed." "Your uncle Andrew has rec'd a call to Virginia and will probably accept."

Download or read book Letter 1850 Aug 29 Shelbyville Ky to My Dear Nephew John A Broadus written by William F. Broaddus and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After hearing of the death of J.A. Broadus's father, Edmund Broadus, who was William F. Broaddus's older brother, Broaddus wrote "it is indeed a sad thing to hear of a brother's death - more mournful still must it have been to you, to witness the death struggles of a Father so worthy to be loved." He proceeded to tell his nephew of the death of his own son, Crawford, of cholera, on August 10, of the same year. Mentions his brother Andrew and "our only surviving sister, Lucy Ferguson, Taylorsville, Ill.

Download or read book Letter 1851 May 9 Washington City to my Dear Nephew John Albert Broadus written by William F. Broaddus and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writes that the "Board of Georgetown College had commissioned me to urge your re-consideration of their call." The college had offered J.A. Broadus the chair of ancient languages. Broadus declined the offer in order to continue his preparation for a career as a clergyman. William adds the news that "Dr. Kerfoot has sold his farm, and will remove his family next fall to Georgetown, Ky." J.A. Broadus lived alternately with the Lewellyn Kerfoot family and the family of D.W. Sowers while teaching at Woodley, Sowers' home, ca. 1845-1846. Lewellyn's son, H.F. Kerfoot, served as Professor of church government and pastoral duties, Joseph Emerson Brown professor of systematic theology, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1887-1899.

Download or read book Letter 1853 Oct 20 Fredg Fredericksburg Va to My Dear Nephew John Albert Broadus written by William F. Broaddus and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Letter 1857 Nov 14 Fredg Fredericksburg Va to my Dear Nephew John Albert Broadus written by William F. Broaddus and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William excused himself from going to Charlottesville to preach for John: "I am in a meeting here Thursday night and the school is on hand, and I am suffering tortures with hemorrhoids and many other things prevent. Accept the will for the deed." In closing, he sends "love to the little children and Julia Somers." John's wife had died in Oct. and Julia Somers probably was part of the arrangements to care for Broadus's three small daughters, Eliza, 7; Annie, 3; and Maria, 19 months.

Download or read book Letter 1863 July 9 Charlottesville to my Dear Nephew John Albert Broadus written by William F. Broaddus and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wrote "We are in great anxiety about our boys. they are in Braxton's Fredg. Artillery. Have you heard from them? Or can you hear? The papers distract us with conflicting statements." The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary closed and John A. Broadus spent much of the Civil War years preaching in Confederate Army camps and hospitals. In July, 1863, he was in Winchester, Va. (Camp 13th Va. Inf.).

Download or read book Letter 1859 Sept 2 Shiloh to my Dear Nephew John Albert Broadus written by William F. Broaddus and published by . This book was released on 1859* with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wrote that he had raised $12,500 for the newly formed Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. but "Shiloh has failed to respond in any thing more substantial than speeches. Had you been there, I think I should have done better."

Download or read book Letter 1854 Mar 8 Fredg Fredericksburg Va to my Dear Nephew John Albert Broadus written by William F. Broaddus and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On the 25th Feb. my wife presented me with a daughter whom we call Lucy Maria. (Did I write to you since? I have inflicted the news on one friend in two letters.). He wrote that they had "put our church under contract, as you will see from the Herald. Tell Bro. [William P.] Farish we should not think it unlike him if he should send a check for a hundred or so, to help pay for it. I know he has many calls, but when a man gets used to anything, he finds it easy to keep on at it."

Download or read book Letter 1857 Nov 25 Fredg Fredericksburg Va to my Dear Nephew John Albert Broadus written by William F. Broaddus and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William had read "in the Dispatch" that John was "in Richmond, preaching for Dr. Jeter. If this be true, I hope it is only for a day or two. We need you here very much." Revival was occurring in the Fredericksburg church. "I think you owe me a visit, among the first you owe to any one. Tiberius Jones is to lecture here Wednesday night and I would like to begin a meeting Thursday night with you here to help." Broadus left a revival in progress in his own church, to conduct meetings from Nov. 30 to Dec. 10, 1857, in Grace Street Church, Richmond, which Jeter pastored. Subsequently, he was summoned back to Charlottesville to continue the meetings there, and was unable to go to Fredericksburg.

Download or read book Letter 1856 Feb 18 Alexandria to dear Uncle John Albert Broadus written by Mary B. Broadus and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asked her uncle to pick her up "at the cars, the day after tomorrow, Thursday." Added a post script, which she signed "Mollie."

Download or read book Letter 1857 Dec 12 Fredg Fredericksburg Va to my Dear Nephew John Albert Broadus written by William F. Broaddus and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John's uncle had wanted him to come to Fredericksburg to preach in a protracted meeting in the church he pastored there. Instead John had left a revival already beginning in his own church in Charlottesville, Va. to preach in a series of meetings, Nov. 30-Dec. 1, in Grace Street Baptist Church in Richmond, pastored by J.B. Jeter. Now William wrote: "I forgive your going to Richmond rather than Fredg. provided you hold yourself in readiness to spend a week here beginning when the moon is 7 days old in March next." He reported the results of the series of meetings in his own church, which was led by Dr. Kingsford. "Nine have been baptized and many others are in a promising state."

Download or read book Letter 1876 Oct 9 Fredericksburg to My Dear Nephew John A Broadus written by Lucy G. Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sends Broadus a check for twenty dollars, in partial refund for the share he paid in the funeral expenses of her husband [William Ferguson].

Download or read book Letter 1859 Aug 27 Culpeper Court House Va to my Dear John John Albert Broadus written by Somerville Ward Broadus and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was visiting her Virginia relatives prior to John's move to Greenville, S.C. where he would become part of the first faculty of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. "I had the pleasure of seeing your uncle William [William F. Broaddus] and Aunt Lucy, on their way to the camp meeting ... You said your sale would come off Tuesday. There is a small piece of furniture I would like to have. A work stand that used to sit in your chamber."

Download or read book Letter 1851 Oct 23 Culpeper to Dear Uncle James Albert Broadus written by Wilmer Somerville Broadus and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John A. Broadus's seven-year-old nephew described the animals he saw in the zoo. "I am learning some of my Latin every day and trying to understand it. I am anxious to hear the name of my little cousin [Eliza Somerville Broadus]."

Download or read book Letter 1852 Feb 11 Culpeper Ct House Va to my Dear John John Albert Broadus written by Somerville Ward Broadus and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apologized for not writing more often, described a visit from his brother [James Madison Broadus]. Wrote about a projected trip to visit friends in Baltimore and Richmond. "Tell her [Maria, Broadus's wife] I highly appreciate the compliment that you and her have paid me in giving to your first born [Eliza Somerville Broadus] my name. May you be enabled to raise, educate, and train her to be an ornament to society and a blessing to yourselves." Said she received a letter from Carrie [Caroline M. Broadus, who died in Aug. 1852]. "It was all the more gratifying because it was written with her own hands. She does not [speak?] in very flattering terms of her improvement, [and thinks?] her disease no better, but I feel that she is mistaken for could there be so great a change, for her to be able to sit up and walk about her room and to enjoy the pleasure of reading and writing unless she has greatly improved?"

Download or read book Letter 1852 Dec 13 Portland Me to my Dear Brother Broadus John Albert Broadus written by Jacob Richardson Scott and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expressed his sympathy upon the death of Broadus's sister Caroline: "the sad intelligence conveyed in your letter touched a very tender cord [sic] in my bosom. I can find some idea of the intense sorrow which the death of my dear friend Carry must have created in your own immediate family. How deeply afflicted is my excellent brother Whitescarver [Caroline's husband]. May the Giver of comfort and grace be with him." Caroline M. Broadus died Aug. 25, 1852. He continued: "Circumstances have delayed my marriage, but I expect on or before the 18th of January ensuing, to be united to Miss Catherine F. Lewis of Boston, a niece of the Mayor of the city."

Download or read book Letter 1857 July 16 Alexandria to my Dear Uncle John Albert Broadus written by Thomas Broadus and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlined plans to vist Culpeper and Madison, Va. "this summer." Thanks Broadus for sending Harpers weekly to "me, Brother John, and the two."