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Title

Southern States Mission

Baird, Richard Alexander

1833 November 21 – 1882 April 20

Church, Haden Wells

1817 August 29 – 1875 September 27

Covington, Robert Dockery

1815 August 20 – 1902 June 2

Dix, Owen Thomas

1827 April 30 – 1921 August 28

East, Edward Wallace

1814 October 11 – 1884 May 29

Evans, Israel

1828 October 2 – 1896 May 31

Hatch, Jeremiah

1823 July 7 – 1903 May 2

Lewis, Theodore Beldon

1843 November 18 – 1899 July 20

McRae, Alexander

1807 September 7 – 1891 June 20

Nelson, William Goforth

1834 June 10 – 1922 October 30

Pearce, Harrison

1818 December 17 – 1889 May 28

Pearce, Thomas Jefferson

1845 February 22 – 1881 April 1

Peck, Lucius Wheaton

1821 March 28 – 1891 September 20

Perkins, Jesse Nelson

1819 February 19 – 1883 March 2

Rudy, Henry Josiah

1826 November 8 – 1910 June 10

Thatcher, Aaron Dunham

1837 April 25 – 1909 September 8

Thomas, Preston

1814 February 15 – 1877 July 11

Whitmore, Franklin Perry

1834 November 15 – 1902 February 15