Elder
Information from another researcher:
s/o John S Abell, Lydia Brown Ralls
Born: Abemarle County, Virginia
Died: Tennessee
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George Washington Abell entered school at age 7 for six years, and then in a store in Charlottesville, Virginia, and assistant in the post office, and attended a classical school. After much serious thought, he was baptized by his father to the great joy of his parents, and united with the Baptist Church of Charlottesville, and began preparing to follow his father in the ministry, entering the University of Virginia when about 20 years of age. About 1841, after hearing a discourse by R. L. Coleman of the Disciples Church, he united with them after severing his relations with the baptize Church, causing considerable consternation among his relatives and friends, but his father and family soon became reconciled to this change. In 1844, he visited Scottsville, Virginia, on an evangelical mission and thence to Nelson County, Virginia, where he met the lady who afterwards became his wife and who with other members of the family was baptized by him. After their marriage, they lived in Charlottesville, Virginia, for three years, where he taught school until 1850, when he began his labors as state evangelist on appointment by the Richmond Session of 1849.
The service called him on extensive missions through neighboring counties, the Shenandoah Valley, the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River counties, southwestern Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and one extended through eastern Ohio as far north as Cleveland, returning through western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. In 1852, he moved to Scottsville, Albemarle County, Virginia, keeping his family as close to his labors as possible. During the winter of 1863, Mr. Abell acted as chaplain to the North Carolina brigade on the Rapidan River and remained preaching to the army until 1865, resuming his evangelizing missions in the spring of 1866. In 1870, he extended his labors to eastern Tennessee, and in 1871 located at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where the last 15 months of his service were expended. In 1874, after returning from a tour of northern Alabama, he was taken with pneumonia and after an illness of ten days, passed away on December 27, 1874. (From "The Abell Family in America: Robert Abell of Rehoboth, Mass., his English ancestry and his descendants" on Ancestry.com)
Information from another researcher:
s/o John S Abell, Lydia Brown Ralls
Born: Abemarle County, Virginia
Died: Tennessee
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George Washington Abell entered school at age 7 for six years, and then in a store in Charlottesville, Virginia, and assistant in the post office, and attended a classical school. After much serious thought, he was baptized by his father to the great joy of his parents, and united with the Baptist Church of Charlottesville, and began preparing to follow his father in the ministry, entering the University of Virginia when about 20 years of age. About 1841, after hearing a discourse by R. L. Coleman of the Disciples Church, he united with them after severing his relations with the baptize Church, causing considerable consternation among his relatives and friends, but his father and family soon became reconciled to this change. In 1844, he visited Scottsville, Virginia, on an evangelical mission and thence to Nelson County, Virginia, where he met the lady who afterwards became his wife and who with other members of the family was baptized by him. After their marriage, they lived in Charlottesville, Virginia, for three years, where he taught school until 1850, when he began his labors as state evangelist on appointment by the Richmond Session of 1849.
The service called him on extensive missions through neighboring counties, the Shenandoah Valley, the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River counties, southwestern Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and one extended through eastern Ohio as far north as Cleveland, returning through western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. In 1852, he moved to Scottsville, Albemarle County, Virginia, keeping his family as close to his labors as possible. During the winter of 1863, Mr. Abell acted as chaplain to the North Carolina brigade on the Rapidan River and remained preaching to the army until 1865, resuming his evangelizing missions in the spring of 1866. In 1870, he extended his labors to eastern Tennessee, and in 1871 located at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where the last 15 months of his service were expended. In 1874, after returning from a tour of northern Alabama, he was taken with pneumonia and after an illness of ten days, passed away on December 27, 1874. (From "The Abell Family in America: Robert Abell of Rehoboth, Mass., his English ancestry and his descendants" on Ancestry.com)
Elder
Information from another researcher:
s/o John S Abell, Lydia Brown Ralls
Born: Abemarle County, Virginia
Died: Tennessee
===
George Washington Abell entered school at age 7 for six years, and then in a store in Charlottesville, Virginia, and assistant in the post office, and attended a classical school. After much serious thought, he was baptized by his father to the great joy of his parents, and united with the Baptist Church of Charlottesville, and began preparing to follow his father in the ministry, entering the University of Virginia when about 20 years of age. About 1841, after hearing a discourse by R. L. Coleman of the Disciples Church, he united with them after severing his relations with the baptize Church, causing considerable consternation among his relatives and friends, but his father and family soon became reconciled to this change. In 1844, he visited Scottsville, Virginia, on an evangelical mission and thence to Nelson County, Virginia, where he met the lady who afterwards became his wife and who with other members of the family was baptized by him. After their marriage, they lived in Charlottesville, Virginia, for three years, where he taught school until 1850, when he began his labors as state evangelist on appointment by the Richmond Session of 1849.
The service called him on extensive missions through neighboring counties, the Shenandoah Valley, the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River counties, southwestern Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and one extended through eastern Ohio as far north as Cleveland, returning through western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. In 1852, he moved to Scottsville, Albemarle County, Virginia, keeping his family as close to his labors as possible. During the winter of 1863, Mr. Abell acted as chaplain to the North Carolina brigade on the Rapidan River and remained preaching to the army until 1865, resuming his evangelizing missions in the spring of 1866. In 1870, he extended his labors to eastern Tennessee, and in 1871 located at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where the last 15 months of his service were expended. In 1874, after returning from a tour of northern Alabama, he was taken with pneumonia and after an illness of ten days, passed away on December 27, 1874. (From "The Abell Family in America: Robert Abell of Rehoboth, Mass., his English ancestry and his descendants" on Ancestry.com)
Information from another researcher:
s/o John S Abell, Lydia Brown Ralls
Born: Abemarle County, Virginia
Died: Tennessee
===
George Washington Abell entered school at age 7 for six years, and then in a store in Charlottesville, Virginia, and assistant in the post office, and attended a classical school. After much serious thought, he was baptized by his father to the great joy of his parents, and united with the Baptist Church of Charlottesville, and began preparing to follow his father in the ministry, entering the University of Virginia when about 20 years of age. About 1841, after hearing a discourse by R. L. Coleman of the Disciples Church, he united with them after severing his relations with the baptize Church, causing considerable consternation among his relatives and friends, but his father and family soon became reconciled to this change. In 1844, he visited Scottsville, Virginia, on an evangelical mission and thence to Nelson County, Virginia, where he met the lady who afterwards became his wife and who with other members of the family was baptized by him. After their marriage, they lived in Charlottesville, Virginia, for three years, where he taught school until 1850, when he began his labors as state evangelist on appointment by the Richmond Session of 1849.
The service called him on extensive missions through neighboring counties, the Shenandoah Valley, the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River counties, southwestern Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and one extended through eastern Ohio as far north as Cleveland, returning through western Pennsylvania and West Virginia. In 1852, he moved to Scottsville, Albemarle County, Virginia, keeping his family as close to his labors as possible. During the winter of 1863, Mr. Abell acted as chaplain to the North Carolina brigade on the Rapidan River and remained preaching to the army until 1865, resuming his evangelizing missions in the spring of 1866. In 1870, he extended his labors to eastern Tennessee, and in 1871 located at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where the last 15 months of his service were expended. In 1874, after returning from a tour of northern Alabama, he was taken with pneumonia and after an illness of ten days, passed away on December 27, 1874. (From "The Abell Family in America: Robert Abell of Rehoboth, Mass., his English ancestry and his descendants" on Ancestry.com)
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