On this day in 1835 Joseph Morrow was born into the family of an itinerant Methodist preacher. At the age of nineteen, Joseph was converted to Christ and joined the Green Fork Baptist Church, south of Augusta, Georgia. After attending Mercer University he became a missionary, primarily to the Creek Indians near Eufaula, Oklahoma, but his ministry spread to the Choctaw, Muskogee and Seminoles as well.  During the Civil War he worked in refugee camps in the Southeast and baptized more than two hundred converts.  Returning to Oklahoma, in 1869 he organized the Rehoboth Baptist Church, near Atoka, which is now believed to be the oldest Baptist church in the state.  God used Morrow to establish the Indian University and the Baptist Academy of Atoka.  At the age of sixty-seven, he and his wife organized an orphanage exclusively for Indian children which resulted in the salvation of many.  After serving the Lord for more than seventy years, Brother Morrow died at the age of ninety-four.  During his lifetime he was used of God to start more than sixty churches, built more than seventy meeting houses and baptized thousands of Indian converts.  His is a name well known and respected among the Oklahoma Indian population, but he is hardly known outside that state.