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REV. ROBERT WALKER COLE
The subject of this sketch, the son of John G. Cole and Nancy
Broaddus was born in Caroline county in September 1812. He
united with the Baptist church under the ministry of the Rev.
Andrew Broaddus, I, was baptized by him and in 1840 licensed
by Salem church to preach. The following year he was ordained
by a presbytery consisting of the Rev. Messrs. Andrew Broaddus,
Philip Montague and Lawrence Battaile. His first charge was
the Reedy Mill church in Caroline and he was subsequently
pastor of Upper Zion, Providence, Concord, Mt. Horeb and
Bethel churches in the same county. He was pastor of Upper
Essex, Bethlehem and Providence churches at the time of his
death on September 16, 1868. Mr. Cole is described as "a man
of commanding figure, black hair, blue eyes, jovial, good conversationalist,
splendid singer, beloved as a pastor and highly
esteemed as a preacher." He devoted much time to work among
the soldiers during the Civil War.
The Rev. Mr. Cole, married Lucy F. Broaddus, daughter of
1849. William Temple Broaddus was a son of Dr. Andrew
Broaddus, I., of whom see elsewhere in this chapter. Of this
marriage there were the following children: Maria Louise, who
died in youth; Elton F., who married George Winfree, of Chesterfield
county; Robert W., who died in childhood; Nannie R., who
married Beaufort S. Ragland, of Richmond; Robert T., who m.
1st Claribel Terry and 2d Hattie Heckman, and John Harry,
who m. Lillian Haskins. Mrs. Ragland alone survives at this
time (1924).
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