Hosea Holcombe

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Hosea Lot Holcombe (1780–1841) was Alabama's first church historian, as noted on his marker in Bessemer, Alabama. He was a Baptist evangelist and missionary, who moved from the Carolinas to Alabama in 1818; and was President of the Alabama Baptist Convention from 1833 to 1838. Asked to write a history of the church, Holcombe traveled throughout the state collecting material for his History of Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Alabama, published in 1840 a year before his death. Lot Holcombe wa