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1929 - 2013 (83 years)
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Name |
Beecher Herod "Herod" McPeak |
Birth |
24 Mar 1929 |
Walling, White County, Tennessee [1] |
Gender |
Male |
Occupation |
Farming [1] |
Religion |
"2-Seed" Primitive Baptist Elder of Concord Baptist Church [2] |
- Primitive Baptists, are also known as Hard Shell Baptists, Anti-Mission Baptists, or Old School Baptists. The adjective "Primitive" in the name has the sense of "original".
Reported in 1920...
BAPTISTS, Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit, had their origin in the preaching and ultra-Calvinistic doctrines of Daniel Parker, a Baptist elder and preacher of Tennessee. Parker, who was ordained in 1806 in Tennessee became one of the strongest opponents of the organized work of the Church. In 1817 he moved to Illinois, where he continued his opposition to the work and organization of the regular Church for 19 years. Later he went to Texas. In various pamphlets (1826-29) Parker made public some very peculiar theories he held concerning the introduction and perpetuation of evil in the human race. According to these beliefs, God, when He created Adam and Eve, infused into them particles of Himself, thus making them altogether good; the devil corrupted them by infusing into them particles of himelf. Eve, by predestination, brought forth a certain number of good and a certain number of bad offsprings; and all her daughters after her were predestined to do likewise. The atonement, according to Parker, applies only to those born of the good seed, those born of the bad being absolutely lost. This Baptist sect is uncompromisingly opposed to "all human institutions." They are found in 21 States and have nearly 500 churches and nearly 13,000 members.
Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists. More information on this ancient Baptist sub-set found on Wikipedia...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit_Predestinarian_Baptists [2]
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Death |
22 Jan 2013 |
Cookeville, Putnam County, Tennessee [1] |
Burial |
24 Jan 2013 |
Old Philadelphia Cemetery, Center Point, White County, Tennessee [1] |
Person ID |
I35250 |
The Hennessee Family |
Last Modified |
14 Apr 2013 |
Father |
Joe Eans McPeak, b. 24 Jan 1881, White County, Tennessee d. 1 Apr 1971, White County, Tennessee (Age 90 years) |
Mother |
Martha Stacy Cole, b. 6 Jul 1890, White County, Tennessee d. 28 Apr 1962, White County, Tennessee (Age 71 years) |
Marriage |
White County, Tennessee [3] |
Family ID |
F9157 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Notes |
- Beecher Herod McPeak, 83, a lifelong resident of the Central View Community, in Walling, passed away Jan. 22, 2013, at Cookeville Regional Medical Center.
Mr. McPeak was born March 24, 1929, in Walling, to Joe Eins and Martha Cole McPeak.
He was a farmer and minister of Concord Baptist Church, in Warren County. He was a member of the Rock Island Masonic Lodge #452 more than 50 years, a founding member of the Central View Volunteer Fire Department and a proud trustee of Old Philadelphia Cemetery. I
Mr. McPeak was preceded in death by his parents; brother, John Wallace McPeak; and sisters, Lavona Jones and Della Mae Johnson.
Funeral service will be 1 p.m., Jan. 25, 2013, at Hunter Funeral Home, with burial in Old Philadelphia Cemetery. The family will receive friends 4-8 p.m., Jan 24, at the funeral home. Masonic services by Rock Island Masonic Lodge #452 will be 7 p.m., Jan. 24.
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- A momemtous event as Herod was the last Elder of the last Tennessee "2 Seed" Primitive Baptist Church. [2]
- Two Seed in the Spirit Predestinarian Baptists
The 1893 and 1896 minutes identified the Caney Fork Association as an association of "Predestinarian Two Seed Baptists." Just how long it had been identified by this theological label and theology, we do not know. The Big Fork Church in its early years and other churches on the early Stockton Valley Association era certainly did not espouse this doctrine, which was not created until the mid-1820s.
"This strange group was organized by Elder Daniel Parker of Virginia in the 1820's. Parker had been ordained in Tennessee in 1806, and labored there until 1817. Thereafter, he ministered in Illinois until 1836, where he edited a periodical known as Church Advocate. The latter years of his ministry were spent in Texas.
While in Illinois, he had published in 1826 and 1829 two pamphlets setting forth his peculiar theory of the two seeds in Eve, imparted by god and Satan respectively. This was his explanation of the doctrine that some are predetermined to be saved and some to be lost. According to his teaching, Christ can reach sinners without the aid of ministers or organizations of any kind. He and his followers, however, believed in a ministry invested with "legal authority" through the laying on of hands by the presbytery acting for a gospel church. Many were opposed, nevertheless, to a paid clergy. Like Arminian Baptists, they followed the practice of footwashing, regarding it as an ordinance. White their number was not larger than thirteen thousand members at the close of the nineteenth century, they were to be found in twenty-four states, though most numerous in Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas. Their four hundred and seventy-three churches, with a property value of more than one hundred and seventy-two thousand dollars, were organized in fifty associations. The decline of extreme forms of Calvinism among Baptists is nowhere more clearly apparent than in the diminishing membership of this group which numbered a mere two hundred in 1945." [4]
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