REV. RICHARD BAYNHAM GARRETT
Richard Baynham Garrett, son of Richard Henry Garrett
and Fanny Holloway, was born in 1854 near Port Royal in Caroline
county. He was the oldest of the five children of the second
marriage of his father. There were six children of his father's
first marriage. He united with old Enon church when nine years
old and grew up with the consciousness that he would be a
minister of the Gospel. In his young manhood he taught school
for a brief period and then entered the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1882. Upon graduation
he supplied the Fulton church, Richmond and later was called
to the Baptist churches of Flemingsburg and Carlisle Kentucky.
He subsequently served the Baptist church, Maysville, Ky.;
First church, Austin, Texas; First church, Chattanooga, Tenn.;
Court-Street church, Portsmouth, Va.; and Tappahannock and
Ephesus churches in Essex county. The latter two churches he
served after failing health had caused him to retire to his plantation
on the Rappahannock. The Carson-Newman College conferred
the degree of Doctor of Divinity on him in recognition of
his work in Chattanooga.
Dr. Garrett was married in 1883 to Miss Annie Laurie Howe,
of Mount Stirling, Ky., and had issue four children. Two of
these died in childhood and two, R. H. Garrett, of the S. A. L.
Railway and Mrs. Felix Wilson, of Caret, Va., survived him.
He was also survived by one brother and one sister. A picture
of the house in which Dr. Garrett was born appears in chapter
on The Killing of Booth in Caroline. He was a lad of eleven
years when John Wilkes Booth was killed in his father's barn.
Dr. Garrett died in July 1922, after forty years in the ministry
of the Gospel.
