, Hester Maria Gilchrist (1836-1838) and Susan Blaine Gilchrist (1834-1859) ). (1806-1861)
« return to database listRev. Gilchrist was a graduate of Dickinson College in Pennsylvania and the Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, NJ.
He entered the ministry and spent most of his career at the Fayetteville Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville, NC. He was installed as pastor there in 1841. After his death from pulmonary disease in 1862, an entry in The Presbyterian Historical Almanac for 1862 states: He was a faithful pastor and a kind counselor; his humility, his purity and his exalted piety, won for him the affection and esteem of all which whom he associated.”
Dr. Gilchrist established a Sunday School for “colored children” at which one of his daughters taught.
Listings of inscriptions for headstones at Fayetteville’s historic Cross Creek Cemetery, section 1, include the following for Fanny Gilchrist’s father:
Gilchrist, Rev. Adam
Born in Charleston, S. C. April 10, 1806
Died in Florida March 27, 1864
For twenty years the beloved pastor
of the Presbyterian Church of Fayetteville, N.C [1].
Adam Gilchrist was born on April 10, 1806, in Charleston, SC. He died on March 27, 1861, of pulmonary disease, and was buried in Cross Creek Cemetery in Cumberland County, NC.
, Hester Maria Gilchrist (1836-1838) and Susan Blaine Gilchrist (1834-1859) ).