Isham Peacock

Elder Isham Peacock
BIRTH
8 Oct 1742
Wilson County, North Carolina, USA
DEATH
Feb 1851 (aged 108)
Blackshear, Pierce County, Georgia, USA
BURIAL
Shiloh Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery
Blackshear, Pierce County, Georgia, USA Show Map
MEMORIAL ID
5028128 · View Source
MEMORIAL
PHOTOS 1
FLOWERS 17
Isham Peacock was one of the most influential early Baptists in Georgia, and
certainly the most influential of the Primitive Baptists. After first
joining Lott’s Creek Primitive Baptist Church in Bulloch County around 1802,
he went on to establish Black Creek, Beard’s Creek, Salem, and most notably,
High Bluff at Schlatterville. As to Peacock’s theology, it was decidedly
Calvinistic. Historian Michael Holt notes that he was quick to speak out
against the proper “discipline” of the Baptist faith. “In 1830, he was able
to get Beard’s Creek Church to adopt a resolution forbidding Missionary and
temperance speakers from taking the pulpit there. However, they rescinded
the resolution as soon as he moved to Pierce County. Though he was alleged
to be sober, he was known to demonstrate his aversion to temperance
societies by carrying a cane full of whisky he used to refresh himself while
preaching…The disgust Peacock showed toward organized attempts to regulate
public morality was typical of frontier Baptists.”–Michael Holt, (Thesis)
The “Gold Standard” of the Wiregrass Primitive Baptists of Georgia: A
History of the Crawford Faction of the Alabaha River Primitive Baptist
Association, 1842-2007, Valdosta State University, 2009. In addition to
these activities, Peacock founded the first Baptist church in present-day
Florida in 1821 (Pigeon Creek Primitive Baptist Church near present-day
Boulogne). For a brief time, it represented an extension of Baptist theology
into a foreign territory, as this was still part of Spanish Florida at the
time and therefore was technically against the laws of Spain regarding the
establishment of non-Catholic churches. Elder Peacock’s last church was
Providence Primtive Baptist in Ware County, where he was preaching at age
101; blindness ultimately ended his life of preaching and he moved to the
Jacksonville area. On a trip to visit family members in Pierce County in
1851, at the age of 107, Peacock died and was buried at Shiloh.

Bio by: Linda Davis

Inscription
"Pvt NC Militia
Revolutionary War"

Sons of the American Revolution Insignia
Family Members
Children
Sarah Keaton
Sarah Peacock Keaton
1776–1867

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Georgia Historical Commission (road side sign at Providence)

Military: abt 1777

Revolutionary War Soldier