Daws, Josiah

Daws, Josiah a Baptist minister, was born in Callaway County, N.C., in 1826. His family moved to Tennessee in 1827. He was baptized in 1849, ordained it 1851 or 1852, and, for three years, was pastor of the Antioch Church. In 1857 he moved to Kentucky, and preached two years for the Columbus Church, and four years. for the Cane Run Church. During the war he resided in Tennessee, but at its close returned to Kentucky, and died at Rutherford. Tennessee, March 1, 1872. See Borum, Sketches of Tenn. Ministers, page 200. (J.C.S.)