Author: Peavey, John L.
Biography:
PEAVEY, John L. (1793-1829: findagrave.com)
The son of Col. Anthony Peavey (1763-1818) and his wife Elizabeth Peavey, John Langdon Peavey was born in Farmington NH. As a young man, he taught school. Following a conversion in 1816, he was called to the ministry and joined his mentor, the Rev. Enoch Place, in a revival meeting at Strafford NH in 1818. He was involved in the founding of a Baptist church in Strafford in 1819, then became an itinerant preacher, riding a circuit through New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. In 1823 he accepted an appointment as minister of the First Christian Church of Milan NY, and in the same year married JoAnn Miller, with whom he had one daughter. They settled in Rock City NY and he continued his circuit work. Besides the Hymns, his only other known publication is a sermon "on the character of Christ" published in Portsmouth NH in 1823. He died of consumption (tuberculosis) and was buried in the Milan graveyard in Duchess County NY. (findagrave.com 22 Jun. 2021; ancestry.com 22 Jun. 2021; freepages.rootsweb.com 22 Jun. 2021)