CHAMPLIN, David E., Rev. 1825-1871

CHAMPLIN, JOSLYN

Posted By: cheryl moonen (email)
Date: 3/12/2018 at 12:36:00

Aged 46 years.

Son of Jesse and Martha Champlin.

Married to Lorinda Joslyn, in DeKalb, IL on May 7, 1846.

They had three daughters per censuses: Martha; Emma; and Elinor Champlin.

He was converted when sixteen years of age, and baptized by Rev. I. Eaton. He was licensed to preach by the Freewill Baptists, while connected with the Fox River Q.M. (Ill), about 1856.

He remained a few years with the Ohio Grove church which was much increased during his connection with it. About 1860, he moved to the Waterloo Q.M., IA, and was connected with the Oxley Grove, Pleasant Valley, Spring Creek and Waterloo churches. He was in the organization and the first pastor of the Waterloo Freewill Baptist church, which was organized with twelve members.

The church grew but in 1896, all 49 members joined the regular Baptist church, just before the Freewill Baptist denomination was merged with the American Baptist.

Rev. David Champlin, was a zealous, faithful laborer, an advocate of all moral reform, and active in the work, until a brief illness carried him away from the earth.
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Info from Free Baptist Cyclopedia, pub. 1889, Burgess and Ward; Iowa Cemetery Records, History of Black Hawk, Iowa, and Family Trees and censuses.