According to the book "Indiana Baptist history: 1798-1908" by (another?)
William Stott Elder William T Stott was buried in Read cemetery.
Caleb Moncrief is supposed to be buried there also.
_http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~shep/shep/I2855.html_
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Hope that is the right one!
Sherri Abromavage
"Indiana Baptist History: 1798-1908"
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DISTRICT ASSOCIATIONS. 165
far above mediocrity, and as a peace-maker he was,
perhaps, without an equal in the congregation of which
he was a member."
His sons, John and Wilham, were ministers also,
and will be referred to in connection with their own
Associations. Elder Vawter's dust reposes in the
cemetery at Wirt, a few miles north of Madison.
Elder William T. Stott was one of the best known
and best loved ministers in the Association, and in
southern Indiana. He was born in Kentucky in 1789
and at the age of thirteen was received into the Salt
River Baptist church. He was a soldier in the war
of 1812 under General Hull (who, he says, was a cow-
ard). In 1815 he came to Indiana and settled near
Vernon; but not being able to meet the payments on
his land he was obliged to give it up ; he next bought
some land on the south branch of Muscatatuck creek,
four miles east of Vernon. His brethren of the Con-
cord church assisted him in paying for this land. He
was away from home most of the time on preaching
tours, and the care of the home rested on his wife, a
most excellent and courageous woman. The churches
paid him but a mere pittance, but he was unceasing in
his efforts to establish and build up the Baptist cause.
He was often in the employ of the Indiana Baptist
Convention, doing missionary work in Jefferson, Jen-
nings, Scott and Ripley counties, and for nearly fifty
years — with the exception of a few interims — he was
pastor of the Vernon church. He always took a live
interest in matters of state, deeming it his duty to help
in the nomination and election of civil officers. The
166 INDIANA BAPTIST HISTORY.
last twenty-five years of his life he spent at the home
of his son John, and continued to preach as long as
he was able to travel; he was permitted to baptize
nearly or quite one thousand persons who had been
led to Christ through his ministry. One who has often
heard him preach, has said that he often rose to great
heights of genuine eloquence — being very familiar with
the word of God and peculiarly apt in illustration ; in
addition he had a fine commanding presence and a
musical voice. He was moderator of the Madison
Association for twenty years and was asked to preach
the introductory sermon at eight different sessions of
the body. He died in 1877 after a few weeks' illness ;
he had a lucid hour in the midst of several days of un-
consciousness, and in that hour he rehearsed his first
Christian experience, and his work in the ministry ; and
spoke of his hope of going home to be with Christ.
After speaking personal words to those of the family
who stood about him he again lapsed into unconscious-
ness — to awaken in the land of light and love. The
funeral exercises were held in the church of which
he was pastor so long, and his body was buried beside
that of his wife in the Read cemetery, a few miles east
of Vernon.
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