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Azor
Van Hoose
Azor
Van Hoose s/o John
and Missouri Frances
Daniels Van Hoose was
born April 12,
1818 in Tenn. He married (1) Martha R Coleman December
20, 1849.
She was born in
Montgomery County,
Alabama, and died April
03, 1854.
He married (2)
Missouri Frances Daniels
December 18, 1855.
History
of the Baptist in
Georgia
(James
F. Harrison & Co.
Alanta Ga. 1881)
Azor
VanHoose was born in
Giles (now Marshall)
County, Tenn., April
12,1818.
The
next youngest of ten
children,six sons and
three daughters, the
fruit of the
marriage
between their parents
John VanHoose, of Dutch
descent, and Elizabeth
Goodwin,
of Welch extraction,
both natives of North
Carolina.
Azor joined the
Baptist Church at Union
Church, Jefferson Co.,
Alabama, near where the city of
Birmingham
now stands. He and his
brother, Valentine, were
licenced to preach
by
Tockish Church, Pontotoc
Co., Miss. In January
they entered Howard
College,
Marrion,
Alabama, where the elder
brother died July 3rd.
December 20, 1849 he
married Miss Martha R.
Coleman, of Montgomery
County,
Alabama
who died without issue
April 3, 1854. For two
years from January 1850,
he was pastor of the
church at Tuscaloosa,
Alabama and for the next
two years
of
two churches near
Aberdeen, Mississippi.
Dec 18, 1855, he married
Mrs. M.F.
Cotton,
daughter of Z.J. Daniel,
Esq., of Eufaula. She
bore him six children,
four
daughters and two sons.
During the year 1854, he
raised $10,000 as agent
of
the East Alabama Female
College, Tennessee.
January 1, 1860, he
became pastor at
Griffin,
Georgia, but
after four years the
pressure
of the war forced him
from that position.
Removing his
family to Eufaula
he
acted as missionary to
the Army. After the war,
he found his family
deprived of
a
means of subsidence and
so he engaged first in
peddling, and then as a
clerk
in a store, supplying
the pulpit of the church
meanwhile for more than
a year.
After
several
months as a missionary
in S.E. Alabama, he
undertook a collection
agency
for
the board of the
Southern Baptist
Convention. He worked in
Georgia and Kentucky
Then
he became pastor of the
Murfreeboro, Tennessee
Church for three years
(1868-
1870). Because of
sickness and an injury
received in falling from
a carriage he was
unable to support his
family properly and his
wife, in 1878, took
charge of the musical
department
of the Georgia Baptist
Seminary for young
ladies, located at
Gainesville.
She
had taught at
Murfreeboro, Mulberry
and Mary Sharp College,
Winchester, Tenn.
In
January 1880, he became
pastor of the church at
Senoia, Ga.
Notes for MARTHA
R COLEMAN:
No
children
Child of AZOR
VANHOOSE
and MISSOURI
FRANCES
DANIELS
is:
i.
AZOR
JR8
VANHOOSE,
b. October 18, 1860,
Griffin, Georgia; d.
December 11, 1921, Rome,
Georgia; m. LUCY
RUCKER,
August 11, 1857.
Source:
Charles Parson's
Book
"The
Van Hoose Family of
Eastern Kentucky"
Published
in 1964
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