While visiting Kiokee, Georgia, and the first Baptist church in that state, I was not looking for the burial place of Jabez Marshall. I was searching for the better known names of Daniel and Abraham, but Jabez was there in the graveyard next to that ancient building not far from Augusta.
Jabez was the oldest son of Abraham and Ann Marshall. In his early life, he gave no indication of spiritual life and went off to college. After failing there, he returned home, where he soon became convicted of his need of salvation and eternal life in Christ. He gave evidence of repentance, and after declaring his faith in the Saviour, he was baptized by his father and joined the Kiokee church. Soon he was preaching the same gospel as his father. When Abraham Marshall passed away in 1817, his son, Jabez, first became the interim preacher and then the settled pastor of his home church. While still at Kiokee, he started the Baptist church at Salem, leading two congregations simultaneously. In 1830 he joined in marriage Issachar Roberts and his bride, before they sailed to China to serve as pioneer missionaries. On this day in 1832, Jabez followed his father, Abraham, and his grandfather, Daniel in death. Together the three of them served the Kiokee church for more than sixty years.
Source – “This Day in Baptist History” by W. Thompson and D. Cummins