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Rev John Edwin Burgess

Rev John Edwin Burgess

1926 - 2025

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Rev. J. E. Burgess Carthage, MS John Edwin Burgess, Sr. was born August 9, 1926, in the home of a sharecropper in Manghum, LA. His father died halfway through the Great Depression, and the family moved to Mississippi, where starvation was a literal and constant threat. These hard times marked him...

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