{"id":9972,"date":"2014-01-08T22:42:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T04:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=9972"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:42:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:42:59","slug":"lofton-george-augustus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/lofton-george-augustus\/","title":{"rendered":"LOFTON, George Augustus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Nashville<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>LOFTON, George Augustus, <\/b>Baptist minister; born Panola County, Miss., December 25, 1839; Scotch, Irish, and French descent; son of <b>James Blocker <\/b>and<b> Olivia Ann (Settle) LOFTON; <\/b>\u00a0graduated Mercer University, Penfield, Ga., April, 1872, A. M.; from Baylor University, Texas, 1880, D.D.; Nashville University, May, 1901, LL.D.; Carson &amp; Newman College, May, 1901, LL.D.; married <b>Ella E. MARTIN<\/b>, Atlanta, Ga., March 31, 1864; member Odd Fellows, James B. Pettit Lodge, Past Grand, Nashville; admitted to bar 1867; entered ministry 1868; Private First Georgia Regiment, 1861; Adjutant Ninth Georgia Battalion Artillery, 1862-64; Commander of Battery, 1864-65; member Missionary Baptist Church; pastor of country churches 1868-69; Dalton, Ga., 1870-72; First Baptist Church, Memphis, 1872-77; Third Baptist Church, St. Louis, 1877-84; Dalton, Ga. 1884-86; Talladega, Ala., 1886-87; Central Baptist Church, Nashville, 1888-1910; author of &#8220;Drunkenness and Its Remedy,&#8221; &#8220;Baptist Trophy,&#8221; &#8220;Bible Thoughts and Themes,&#8221; &#8220;Character Sketches,&#8221; Harp of Life,&#8221; &#8220;Master Wheel,&#8221; &#8220;English Baptist Reformation,&#8221; &#8220;Mighty to Save, and Other Poems,&#8221; &#8220;Lo, or the Gospel in a Monosyllable,&#8221; etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>Source: Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Nashville LOFTON, George Augustus, Baptist minister; born Panola County, Miss., December 25, 1839; Scotch, Irish, and French descent; son of James Blocker and Olivia Ann (Settle) LOFTON; \u00a0graduated Mercer University, Penfield, Ga., April, 1872, A. M.; from Baylor University, Texas, 1880, D.D.; Nashville University, May, 1901, LL.D.; Carson &amp; Newman College, May, 1901, LL.D.; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[337,162,81,541,4062,4419],"tags":[3352,513,1427],"class_list":{"0":"post-9972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-carson-newman-college","7":"category-davidson","8":"category-surname-l","9":"category-university-of-nashville","10":"category-whoswho","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-lofton","13":"tag-martin","14":"tag-settle","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13019,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions\/13019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}