POTTER, LEMUEL: 1841-1897.
Lemuel Potter , son of Jesse and Margaret Sams Potter, was born in Edwards County, Ill., on Oct. 28, 1841, and received a limited education in the district schools. His mother died when he was ten years old, and, until he was a young man, he helped his father on the farm. In March of 1863 he married Lydia Jane Humphreys.
He began teaching in 1862 but joined the Baptist Church in the fall of 1863 and following his conversion felt himself drawn to the ministry, which he formally entered in January of 1865. For about twelve years, beginning in 1868, he preached at Grayville, Ill., and had charge of four other churches in Posey County, Ind., traveling to them on horseback or by carriage. He was not paid for his preaching at this time and had to farm to support his family.
In December of 1880 he moved to Posey County, Ind. In 1885 he became pastor of the church at Owensville, Ind., while continuing to serve his former churches.
Information from Labors and Travels of Elder Lemuel Potter …
- Joint Discussion of Foreign Missions Between the Rev. H. Clay
Yates, Pastor of the Owensville Cumberland Presbyterian Church and Elder
Lemuel Potter, Pastor of the Owensville Regular Baptist Church, Held in
Owensville, Indiana, December 14-19, 1885. Nashville,
Tenn., 1886.
- A Two Days' Debate on the Atonement, Between Elder
Lemuel Potter … and Elder Thomas W. Dickey … Held at
the Lilly Meeting House in Wayne County, Ill., on … April 19-20,
1887. Evansville, Ind., 1887.
- Labors and Travels of Elder Lemuel Potter, as an Old School
Baptist Minister, for Thirty Years, with a Brief Sketch of His Earlier Life,
Christian Experience, and Call to the Ministry, Together with His Doctrinal
Sentiments on Some Vital Points. Evansville,
Ind., 1894.
