Blasterz do not understand what it is about you follow Ann's that they like to stick their really cool monuments in the middle of very busy US highways, so that the monuments themselves are exposed to danger from passing vehicles and passing photographers can't get anywhere near them.
This statue in honor of the Reverend Martin Brian Morton is located at the intersection of N/S Randolph Street and the E/W Barbour street, also the US 82. It stands in the center of the intersection facing the church where he was pastor twice, the First Baptist Church of Eufaula.
The statue is made of white marble, stands about 15 to 20 feet tall.
On the only side Blasterz could get a good look at without getting run over and killed, we read the following inscription:
"MARTON BRYAN WHARTON DD, LLD
Born Orange Co. Va.
April 5, 1839,
Died at Atlanta, Ga.
July 20, 1908.
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Preacher, Poet, Patriot, Philanthropist, Statesman, Scholar, Consecrated Christian"
From hymntime.org: (
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"Morton was the son of Malcolm Hart Wharton and Susan Roberts Colvin, and husband of Mary Belle Irwin.
Converted at age 18, he joined the Baptist church in Alexandria, Virginia. In October 1858, he entered Richmond College, where he stayed through the session of 1860-61. During the American civil war, he was an evangelist in the army, under A. E. Dickinson, and later, agent in Georgia collecting funds for the Virginia Army Colportage Board. At this period of his life he was also, for a time, agent for the Domestic and Indian Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
After the war, he became pastor in Eufala, Alabama, where he would later serve a second time until the end of his life. He also served pastorates in Louisville, Kentucky; Augusta, Georgia; Montgomery, Alabama; and Norfolk, Virginia. For a while he served with the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and edited the Christian Index. Starting in 1816, he served several years as the United States Consul in Sonneberg, Germany, near Coburg. Somewhere along the way, he found time to earn a Doctor of Divinity degree from Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, and a Doctor of Laws from the University of Alabama. His works include:
European Notes; Or, What I Saw In The Old World, 1884
Famous Women of the Old Testament, 1889
Famous Women of the New Testament, 1890
Famous Men of the Old Testament, 1903
Pictures From a Pastorium"