Wayne V McDill

Joseph Braxton Huckabee Wayne V McDill

The life of J. B. Huckabee is one man's journey in the post-Civil War South to do all he could as a missionary pastor. My study of his life began when I learned that my great great grandfather was a pastor and missionary in the eighteen hundreds. No one can understand the life of a man without knowing the historical and cultural context in which he lived. The rapid Nineteenth Century growth of the United States, life on the southern frontier, the Georgia Gold rush, the Civil War and Reconstruction, several financial panics, the expansion of the railroads, the constant westward migration-all set the stage for a fascinating story. Wayne McDill, from the Introduction.