Notes for Sarah RANDOLPH

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Notes for Sarah RANDOLPH

When the census taker made his rounds on 11 October 1850, Noah was living in the Montevallo area of neighboring Shelby County. About this time Noah became pastor of the Shoals Creek Church (an old church constituted in 1819, which is thought to have been located about two miles north of Montevallo). Noah may have been living in the Montevallo area while serving as pastor of the Cahaba Valley Church, which was only six miles to the west. Living with Noah and Sarah in 1850 were their sons James R. age 40, Henry O. age 28, and Samuel J. age 17 and daughter Margaret age 20. Nearby was daughter Lucy and her husband Willis Wood.

Noah Haggard wrote his will on 15 October 1853, at the age of 65. He wanted to make sure that his daughter Lucy Willis and son Samuel received property equal to what his other children (not named) had received. He appointed son Henry O. as executor. Noah, however, would live another twelve years.

In 1856 Noah and Sarah left the Shoals Creek Baptist Church which was dissolved the next year and were received by letter into the new Montevallo Baptist Church on 30 August 1856 as two of the eleven founders. Among the other founders were Noah's nephew P. M. Fancher, who was deacon, and P. M.'s wife Hannah (Ware) Fancher, as well as Noah's niece Maria Mauney. The Montevallo Baptist Church met first at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and by 1859 had built their own brick building with steeple and bell.

In 1860 Noah, age 72, and Sarah, age 70, were living with their daughter Lucy and her husband Willis Wood in the Montevallo area. Noah was now actively engaged as a colporteur of the Bible and Colporteur Society of Alabama This year he wrote several articles in the "South Western Baptist" paper encouraging support for the colporteurs, who were actually Bible salesmen but whom he described as "those who bear the news as did the apostles, from home to home." On December 6th he wrote of his trip with Sarah to Talladega County and on up as far as Rome, Georgia. In this article he provided us with some family information by mentioning that all of his brothers were now dead, and that he had 12 children, three of them now dead, and all but one had married. Earlier in 1859 he had stated that three of his sons were preachers, one in Tennessee, one in Louisana, and one in Texas.

In 1864, with the Civil War in progress, Noah Haggard spoke out at the Association Meeting strongly persuading the churches to instruct their members that desertion was wrong in principle and contrary to the teachings of the Bible and the laws of the land.

Noah Haggard died on 2 January 1866, at the age of 77. On April 9, notices were sent out by the probate judge to the following, requesting their appearance the second Monday in May: Alamath Woods and Susan R. his wife (which was acknowledged by both); Willis Woods and his wife Lucy E. (ack. by both); H. O. Haggard (ack. by T. W. Haggard); Sarah Dobyns (ack. by Sarah A. Dobyns); Mr. M. M. Thirman (ack. by M. M. Ikerman); J. W., John D., Martha J., Sarah E., W. H. C., James M. and Elizabeth E. McColough (ack. by James W. and John D. W. McColough).

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