REV. JAMES R. ROSAMOND

1854-1855 

James was the son of Capt. Samuel Null Rosamond and Sarah (Sally) Hodges. He was born at Pendleton, SC, September 6, 1806. He graduated from Miami University, Ohio in 1833. After teaching at Union Academy in Alabama, he entered Andover Theological Seminary in 1834, and remained two years. In August of 1836 he was at Princeton Seminary, but only for a little over a year before transferring to Columbia Seminary in SC. 

Rev. Rosamond was licensed on April 8, 1838, as a missionary to the South by Harmony Presbytery in South Carolina. From 1838-1841, he served at Ripley and Farmington (east of Corinth) in Mississippi. He then served several churches in Georgia and Alabama. On Oct. 22, 1849, he was ordained by the Presbytery of Flint River in Georgia. 

The Onley Presbyterian Church had been meeting at the Cumberland Presbyterian Campground 3 miles from French Camp until 1854. That year, under the leadership of Rev. Rosamond, the congregation moved its meeting place to accommodate a majority of its members who lived in French Camp. There they occupied a building used by all denominations as a “Union Church.” 

After a time in Tombigbee Presbytery, which included his service in French Camp, Rosamond was dismissed in 1859 to the Presbytery of Tuscaloosa in Alabama where he served until the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1868 he taught in Union City, TN before relocating to Waverly, TX where he taught at Huntsville College. He then served as a professor and in 1872 as acting president of Austin Synodical College in Sherman, TX. Late in his career, he served a church in Collinsville, TN, and at the Second Presbyterian Church of Memphis. He died on June 16, 1889 at the age of 82.