{"id":201,"date":"2013-10-20T12:59:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T17:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=201"},"modified":"2015-02-10T01:30:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T07:30:31","slug":"how-an-indian-was-baptized-1878","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/how-an-indian-was-baptized-1878\/","title":{"rendered":"How An Indian Was Baptized (1878)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Professor Edward FONTAINE,<\/strong> who is now in Reidsville, once baptized a negro, <strong>Mark DAVIS<\/strong>, the slave of the nephew of <strong>Jeff DAVIS<\/strong>, at Canton, Miss. \u00a0Mark had accidentally killed a young white man while \u2018possum hunting. \u00a0Under the gallows the sheriff was so affected he couldn&#8217;t tie the rope and Mark helped him tie it around his own neck. \u00a0He thanked <strong>Dr. FONTAINE<\/strong> under the gallows, \u201cMaster,\u201d said he, \u201cwhen you come to die, I pray God I may be one of them sent to bear you from this world.\u201d \u00a0But the Sunday previous he was baptized. \u00a0He preferred to be dipped like the other negroes. \u00a0The jailor and <strong>Mr. FONTAINE<\/strong> quietly took him down to the creek at Canton, but the thing had got wind, and a great crowd was on the banks, and among them was a band of fifty Choctaw Indians. The creek not far from the bank was some 15 feet deep. \u00a0After Mark had been dipped, <strong>Dr. FONTAINE<\/strong> made the cross of Christ on his forehead, and just then \u201ckerdip\u201d came a sound, and a Choctaw had taken a running leap and plunged head under into the deepest of the stream. \u00a0As he arose he made a cross on his face and said with a grunt, \u201cHell\u2019s gone!\u201d \u00a0<strong>Dr. FONTAINE<\/strong> had delivered an affecting sermon on the bank of the creek, and this Indian had understood it. \u00a0He baptized himself. \u00a0They all shook hands, and the Indians returned to his tribe a converted man.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Source: Roanoke News, 21\u00a0September 1878. Available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalnc.org\" target=\"_blank\">digitalnc.org<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Edward FONTAINE, who is now in Reidsville, once baptized a negro, Mark DAVIS, the slave of the nephew of Jeff DAVIS, at Canton, Miss. \u00a0Mark had accidentally killed a young white man while \u2018possum hunting. \u00a0Under the gallows the sheriff was so affected he couldn&#8217;t tie the rope and Mark helped him tie it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,2600,219],"tags":[222,221,220],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-roanoke-news","category-rockingham","tag-davis-jeff","tag-davis-mike","tag-fontaine-edward"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-3f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3153,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/3153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}