EV. GEORGE H. HAYDEN lived in Washington Georgia. He was born in Virginia, in 1788, and began to preach in 1808. In 1810, he was traveling in West Tennessee and met with Elder Joseph Thomas, who speaks of him as a "young man of brilliant talents." On the 4th Sunday in November, this year, a meeting was held at Hopewell meeting house on Bledsoe creek. At this meeting there were twenty-one preachers in attendance, and he and Joseph Thomas were among the number. He was just from Georgia, and Elder Thomas (in whose autobiography his name is printed "Joel H. [94] Haden") says, His name I was not wholly strange to preachers in Virginia and North Carolina." On January 15, 1811, he and Joseph Thomas met again. He preached from the text: "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life." During Mr. Thomas's tour through the West, he was taken sick in Kentucky, and Mr. Hayden (Haden) waited upon and nursed him. This up to February, 1811.

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