EDWARDS, George G. (1827-1869)

EDWARDS

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 12/8/2007 at 00:01:39

Historical Sketches of Iowa Baptists
Burdette Company, Burlington, Iowa, 1886

Obituary Notes-
George Grosvenor Edwards II
(January 3, 1827 - November 8, 1869)

REV. G. G. EDWARDS of Toledo, died in 1869. He came to Iowa in 1855 and organized the Toledo Church. He was a faithful minister of Christ, and active in all that pertains to the work of the Lord. He was an ardent supporter of the anti-slavery sentiment and of the American Baptist Free Mission Society in its day, also of work among the Freedmen. He was a Missionary of the Convention and though in great weakness, labored in Belle Plaine and West Irving the last year of his life. He had a burning zeal to preach the gospel as long as he had breath and could stand on his feet.