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CHARLES PHILLIP COLBERT, my Great Uncle was born 03 November 1853,
Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia, son of a lay Methodist minister and his second or third
wife, Elizabeth E. M. Whitten. Charles married his second wife, MARTHA GRAY
EATHERLY in August 1900, in Marshall, Searcy County, Arkansas. Charles became a
licensed Baptist Minister (Southern Baptist Convention) in 1878. He was ordained in 1879
in Big Springs Baptist Church, Howell County, Missouri. Other pastorates in Stone
County and Searcy County, Arkansas included: Shiloh 1882-82; Marshall, Arkansas
1883-1887; Hopewell 1887; Flat Rock 1888-92, DeSota 1893 and again in Marshall and
New Harmony, Arkansas 1892-98; in Stone County, Arkansas, in Talpa and Winters,
Texas; and in Hastings and Cement, Oklahoma. Charles died in Cement, Oklahoma 03
December 1923.Charles was a licensed school teacher in Arkansas and taught school for
many years in Northern Arkansas. In 1892 Charles and Cicero Brown founded the
weekly newspaper in Marshall, Arkansas, the "Mountain Wave" and published the paper
for two years. Charles ran for governor of Arkansas about this same time and
lost by only four or five votes. The Rev. Charles Colbert was a well known Baptist
Minister, taught school for many years, and often entered and won many spelling bees in
Texas and Oklahoma. He was a man of strong convictions and opinions. In the summer of
1897, while washing clothes on a very hot summer day, his first wife, Margrette
Huckabee, went to the spring for a bucket of cold water. She drank so much she got
terrible cramps and died at the age of 40 leaving a grieving husband and family.
There were 17 children born to Charles with his 2 wives and adopting Martha's 2 sons.
Submitted by: Darlene Hall
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