Graduated with honors from the University of Nashville, entered the Baptist Ministry, being ordained at the age of twenty. He began his career in Athens, Alabama but was soon sent to pastor the First Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee upon its founding in April of 1839. In 1841, he left Memphis for LaGrange, Tennessee. There he pastored the Middleburg Baptist Church and dedicated the new church building in May of 1843. During the 1850s, he pastored the Baptist Church in Aberdeen, Mississippi and the First Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi. In early 1860, with war approaching, he resigned his pastorship and returned to his land in LaGrange. During the War Between the States, he was Brigade Chaplain, 13th Tennessee Infantry, CSA, commanded by Col. Andrew Jackson Vaughn. He served until November 1864, when he resigned due to ill health. After the War, he was instrumental in building Baptist Churches in Sommerville and Grand Junction, Tennessee. Rev. Milliken was also a school teacher and principal. Rev. Milliken was orator on the occasion of the laying of the cornerstone of the First Baptist Church of Grand Junction in May of 1878. The cornerstone is on the northeast corner of the building and contains a time capsule which has never been removed. Ministered to the sick and dying during a major epidemic of Yellow Fever in 1878. Rev. Milliken married Mary Lavinia Moody (dtr. of Epps Moody and Matilda Johnson Rawlings) in Clear Brook, Hardeman County, Tennesse on 8 July 1841. From this marriage known issue being: Matilda Rawlings, William Alfred, Mary Epps, Leonard H., Jr., Lovinia/Lavinia, Benjamin Harrison, Rawlings and Nancy Rhodes Milliken.
Graduated with honors from the University of Nashville, entered the Baptist Ministry, being ordained at the age of twenty. He began his career in Athens, Alabama but was soon sent to pastor the First Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee upon its founding in April of 1839. In 1841, he left Memphis for LaGrange, Tennessee. There he pastored the Middleburg Baptist Church and dedicated the new church building in May of 1843. During the 1850s, he pastored the Baptist Church in Aberdeen, Mississippi and the First Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi. In early 1860, with war approaching, he resigned his pastorship and returned to his land in LaGrange. During the War Between the States, he was Brigade Chaplain, 13th Tennessee Infantry, CSA, commanded by Col. Andrew Jackson Vaughn. He served until November 1864, when he resigned due to ill health. After the War, he was instrumental in building Baptist Churches in Sommerville and Grand Junction, Tennessee. Rev. Milliken was also a school teacher and principal. Rev. Milliken was orator on the occasion of the laying of the cornerstone of the First Baptist Church of Grand Junction in May of 1878. The cornerstone is on the northeast corner of the building and contains a time capsule which has never been removed. Ministered to the sick and dying during a major epidemic of Yellow Fever in 1878. Rev. Milliken married Mary Lavinia Moody (dtr. of Epps Moody and Matilda Johnson Rawlings) in Clear Brook, Hardeman County, Tennesse on 8 July 1841. From this marriage known issue being: Matilda Rawlings, William Alfred, Mary Epps, Leonard H., Jr., Lovinia/Lavinia, Benjamin Harrison, Rawlings and Nancy Rhodes Milliken.
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