James McLemore [SEP] date of death
James McLemore
James McLemore (1782–1834) was a white Baptist minister in Montgomery, Alabama. He was a leader of the Alabama Baptist Association and founder of a number of churches. He is known also for having an African American associate minister, the slave Caesar Blackwell.
Biography.
James McLemore preached in the Elam Church in Jones County, Georgia, which became a member of the Ocmulgee Baptist Association in 1810. He moved to Montgomery by way of the Federal Road where he founded the Antioch Baptist Church (organized
was a "minority communistic-inspired group." A vote for McLemore, he claimed, would be "an escape from the integration vice that is closing on us from both outside and within." He urged voters to rally to his cause and the "South's way of life."
Death.
James and Kathryne McLemore had two children. Both died in 1997 and are interred at Springville Cemetery off U.S. Highway 71 in his native Coushatta. The gravestone reads "God is our refuge and strength."