Thomas Majors

FROM THE BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF PRIMITIVE OR OLD SCHOOL BAPTIST MINISTERS BY DAVID MONTGOMERY AND MARK GREEN: ELDER T. E. MAJORS. (Thomas E.)  I was born May 24, 1900, in Bibb Co., Ala., to William F. and Sara Ann Majors. I was married to Laura Ann Robinson on Oct. 3rd, but she did not know anything about Primitive Baptists, and it was many years before we attended services. But in 1921 I saw that I was a poor sinner and felt like hell was my doom. One day, while I was working in a coal mine, something happened to me, and I felt that I was the worst sinner in the world and felt that I had lived such a sinful life that God could never forgive me. But something happened, and I felt that God had forgiven me, and from that time until now I have been a poor mourner and have wondered how God could save a poor sinner like me. In 1924, I was visiting a New School Baptist Church, and my wife and I joined them, but we did not stay with them very long, as I did not believe as they did. I visited a Primitive Baptist Church by the name of Pilgrim Rest, and while the minister was preaching, I thought that someone had told him how I felt, as he seemed to be preaching to me. On the Sunday morning in November, I joined and was baptized in December, and from then, I sure have been happy. In 1938, I felt a great impression to talk to the Lord's little children, and the church licensed me, and in 1940, I was ordained to the full work of the ministry and was called to serve my home church, which was Hopewell near West Blocton, Alabama. I served them for a short time, and in 1950 I had a desire to move to Maryland, which we did, and put our letters at Columbia Church at Burtonsville, MD, and I was called to serve Greenwood Church in Virginia. In 1955, Elder Dove, who was my pastor, was on his way home from a Union Meeting and passed away. The church called me, and I served them for ten or eleven years. In 1955, I was called to serve Happy Creek Church at Front Royal, Virginia. We moved there and stayed until 1973. I served Battle Run and Grace Church for some time. In October 1973, we moved back to Birmingham, Ala. as I thought it would be better to be near most of our children. It was the most wonderful part of our lives to live in good old Virginia.

NOTE: Elder Majors departed this life on March 3, 1976.  Thomas E. Majors is buried in the Oakwood Cemetery in Bibb County, Alabama.