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David Lipscomb
1831-1917

David
Lipscomb
was born not far from Davy Crockett's Old Kentuck farm, in the Old Salem
Community, Franklin County, Tennessee on January 21, 1831. His parents were
Granville and Ann Lipscomb. He, and his older brother
William,
attended Franklin College in 1846 under
the tutelage of Tolbert Fanning, and he graduated in 1849.
After
graduating he spent a couple years in Georgia, helping with family business. In
1852 he moved back to Franklin County, Tennessee and
helped in the building of the railroad between Nashville and Chattanooga. On
July 13, 1962 he married Margaret Zellner. One child was born to this union,
Zellner, born in September, 1863. He died at nine months of age from severe
dehydration from teething. He is buried in the Hughes Cemetery, off Santa Fe
Pike in Maury County, Tennessee. In 1866 David Lipscomb began
as co-editor of the Gospel Advocate with Tolbert Fanning. In 1891, with the help of
J. A. Harding and others, he founded the Nashville Bible School, now
Lipscomb
University. The university now sits on the old Lipscomb farm, Avalon,
on Granny White Pike, Nashville, Tennessee.
He was a very intelligent man who was soft spoken, but greatly convicted in his
beliefs. He, by far, had more influence on the
churches of the south through his work in the Gospel Advocate than any other
preacher of the gospel during his lifetime. He died November 11, 1917 at the age of
86. Brethren,
E.G. Sewell,
J.C. McQuiddy, E.A. Elam, and C.A. Moore conducted the funeral at the College Street
Church. He was laid to rest in the cemetery at Mt. Olivet. Through his efforts
in the Gospel Advocate and Nashville Bible School, it could be said that he was
the most influential man in the Restoration Movement in the Southern United
States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.


Lipscomb Home, On Campus Of
Lipscomb University



Directions To Lipscomb's Grave
The
David Lipscomb family plot is located in one of Nashville, Tennessee's oldest
and most famous cemeteries, Mount Olivet. Many famous and wealthy Tennesseans
such as, Thomas G. Ryman and others are buried there. To those in Churches of
Christ, what makes this cemetery so famous are the numerous men and women of the
Restoration Movement who are interred there. Lipscomb is buried in Section 14.
See a map of Mount Olivet and
directions on how to get there. Click Here! GPS
Coordinates
N36º 08' 48.7" x WO 86º 44' 03.5"
Accuracy To Within 22.5'
Facing South


David
Lipscomb's Early Home Life And Parents
Biographical
Sketch By H. Leo Boles
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