Martha Brookes Stevens' father Iverson was a Baptist preacher, a founder of Mercer College, Georgia, and a wealthy planter in Georgia and South Carolina. He was married three times, and died on the very eve of the end of the Civil War. He is buried in Augusta, Georgia, where his tomb is inscribed "PATRIOT TEACHER WRITER MINISTERA LIFE DEVOTED TO THE SERVICE OF GOD." This rendering is probably from the book "History of the Baptist Denomination in Georgia," 1881, but is copied here from the reproduction in a small oval frame which hung for years in the hall at Oak Hill, his daughter's home in Oglethorpe Co., Ga.
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