Birth | April 3, 1911 25 20 Note: social security death index lists birth as 4 Apr 1911
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Birth of a brother | Richard Aaron Eddleman Jr. February 26, 1913 (Age 22 months) |
Birth of a sister | Evelyn Quinn Eddleman February 5, 1917 (Age 5 years) |
Death of a paternal grandmother | Sarah Elizabeth Lane April 5, 1934 (Age 23 years) |
Marriage of a parent | Richard Aaron “Dick” Eddleman — Jessie M. Cason — View this family May 11, 1937 (Age 26 years) |
Death of a paternal grandfather | John Henry Eddleman July 18, 1937 (Age 26 years) |
Marriage of a parent | Richard Aaron “Dick” Eddleman — Edna Orene Everett — View this family April 27, 1947 (Age 36 years) |
Occupation | President 1954 (Age 42 years)Corporation: Georgetown University |
Death of a mother | Flossie Nora Lucille Power November 5, 1959 (Age 48 years) |
Death of a father | Richard Aaron “Dick” Eddleman December 9, 1977 (Age 66 years) |
Death of a brother | Richard Aaron Eddleman Jr. April 13, 1988 (Age 77 years) |
Occupation | President Corporation: New Orleans Baptist Seminary |
Text | Born in 1911, in Morgantown, Mississippi, Eddleman graduated from yesMississippi College, an institution of the Mississippi Baptist Convention, in Clinton. After finishing his doctorate at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, in 1935, he was appointed as a missionary to Palestine, where he worked for six years in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Nazareth. During his stay in Palestine, he married Sarah Fox, another missionary. As war threatened to engulf Palestine in 1941, Eddleman returned to the United States to teach Old Testament and Hebrew at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisiana. He taught there for over a year before moving to Louisville to assume the pastorate of Parkland Baptist Church. He stayed for ten years. In addition to being a pastor, Eddleman served as superintendent of the church. Eddleman believed that Baptist schools stood at a crossroads. With the increasing support of public education in the United States, he saw Baptist schools threatened with extinction unless they could maintain their academic standards in the midst of standardization and accreditation pressures. If Baptist colleges, such as Georgetown, were going to survive, they would have to provide distinctive training, producing aggressive, capable Christian leaders in all fields of life. The major issue of Eddleman's tenure was whether to merge Georgetown College with a central Kentucky Baptist university, which would be located in Louisville, Kentucky. Some Louisville Baptists wanted to start a new college, which would be less expensive and more convenient to metropolitan residents. Leaders of the Long Run Baptist Association began negotiations with the trustees of Georgetown College to support programs for arts and sciences and technical and vocational training in Louisville. Money was committed, land was bought, and construction was started, but the trustees rejected the proposal to sponsor the extension in 1958, a move later confirmed by the General Association of Baptists in Kentucky. Georgetown College, during Eddleman's administration, continued the growth that had been restored by his predecessor. Enrollment and faculty expanded; much of the college's debt was paid; more international students -- from Israel, Nigeria, West Germany, Cuba, Rhodesia, and South Korea -- attended; a graduate program in education was added to the curriculum; a new men's dormitory, Anderson Hall, was built; and the V.V. Cooke library and student center was completed. In sports, football, which had been suspended the year before Eddleman came, started again, and basketball became prominent once again. In the midst of the controversy over whether to move the college to Louisville, Eddleman had accepted the presidency of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, where he remained until his retirement in 1970. He continued to be active, working as an editor for the Baptist Sunday School Board in Nashville, Tennessee, and as a writer and teacher in Baptist institutions in Pineville, Kentucky, and Dallas, Texas. He returned to Louisville, where he died in July 1995. Note: From http://library.georgetowncollege.edu/Special_Collections/Leo_Eddleman.htm
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Death | July 28, 1995 (Age 84 years) |
Burial | Cemetery: Jarnigan Cemetery |
Family with parents |
father |
Birth: June 5, 1885 30 24 — Weir, Choctaw County, MS, USA Death: December 9, 1977 — Clinton, Hinds County, MS, USA |
mother |
Birth: September 17, 1890 25 19 — Choctaw County, MS, USA Death: November 5, 1959 — New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA, USA |
Marriage: July 6, 1908 — McCool, Attala County, MS, USA |
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3 years himself |
Birth: April 3, 1911 25 20 — Morgantown, Marion County, MS, USA Death: July 28, 1995 — Louisville, Jefferson County, KY, USA |
23 months younger brother |
Birth: February 26, 1913 27 22 — Georgetown, Copiah County, MS, USA Death: April 13, 1988 — Gulfport, Harrison County, MS, USA |
4 years younger sister |
Birth: February 5, 1917 31 26 — Shelby, Bolivar County, MS, USA Death: January 28, 2002 — Mobile, Mobile County, AL, USA |
Father’s family with Jessie M. Cason |
father |
Birth: June 5, 1885 30 24 — Weir, Choctaw County, MS, USA Death: December 9, 1977 — Clinton, Hinds County, MS, USA |
step-mother |
Jessie M. Cason Birth: 1870 Death: 1946 — Hinds County, MS, USA |
Marriage: May 11, 1937 — Port Gibson, Claiborne County, MS, USA |
Father’s family with Edna Orene Everett |
father |
Birth: June 5, 1885 30 24 — Weir, Choctaw County, MS, USA Death: December 9, 1977 — Clinton, Hinds County, MS, USA |
step-mother |
Edna Orene Everett Birth: July 26, 1904 — Hickory, Newton County, MS, USA Death: January 16, 1986 |
Marriage: April 27, 1947 — Hickory, Newton County, MS, USA |
Family with Sarah Fox |
himself |
Birth: April 3, 1911 25 20 — Morgantown, Marion County, MS, USA Death: July 28, 1995 — Louisville, Jefferson County, KY, USA |
wife |
Sarah Fox Birth: September 7, 1912 — Marianna, AR, USA Death: December 23, 2007 — Louisville, KY, USA |
daughter |
Private |
daughter |
Private |
Birth | social security death index lists birth as 4 Apr 1911 |
Text | From http://library.georgetowncollege.edu/Special_Collections/Leo_Eddleman.htm |
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