Calvinism, Scotch-Irish, and the Appalachian Experience

[Earth Wind and Fire]

My ancestors on Mom's side were Scots-Irish Presbyterians who came over in the 18th century. My brother has researched this quite a book, and the earliest ancestor he found a record of was John Rice, six generations ago, who settled in Tennessee. John was one of the Overmountain Men formed in 1780 to fight the British. His son had the interesting name of Dangerfield Rice. His son James Porter Rice helped found the Presbyterian church in Hazel Hill MO in 1853. James fought for the South in the Civil War with his son under Conferate calvary Colonel Jo Shelby.

James' son Will was my great-grandfather. He became a Texas cowboy and abandoned the faith. However, he trusted Christ as Savior at a revival meeting at First BC of Gainsville. Will became an SBC lay preacher. His son was John R. Rice, my grandfather and a well-known Baptist evangelist. So we've been non-Calvinist Baptists since 1889.

so how is it you didnt retain your Reformed roots? Im assuming its an American invention.

 

[John of Japan]

so how is it you didnt retain your Reformed roots? Im assuming its an American invention.

Hey, don't blame me, blame Great Grandpa Will Rice three generations back. We haven't been Calvinists since then. :saint: