eecc.org/WMA/SERMGEN/SERMGEN0489.wma Marshall Keeble Marshall Keeble was born of slave parents on a farm near Murfreesboro, in Rutherford County, Tennessee, on December 7, 1878. When he was four years of age his parents, Robert and Mittie Keeble moved to Nashville, Tennessee. He attended the Bell view and Noles Schools of Nashville; but never went beyond seventh grade. Although limited in education, he, nevertheless, acquired a remarkable knowledge of the Bible and human nature. He married Miss Minnie Womack, a Fisk University high school graduate. With the help of his father-in-law, S.W. Womack and other gospel preachers, he started preaching the gospel soon after 1900. A.M. Burton, founder of the Life and Casualty Insurance Company, became his friend and patron. During his life he preached from the Golden Gate Bridge to New York harbor and around the world. Frank G. Clement, former Governor of Tennessee, appointed him the first black Colonel Aide-de-Camp in Tennessee history. He was also made an honorary chief over one of the largest Nigerian tribes in Africa. Brother Keeble held gospel meetings anywhere he could find space large enough to erect his tent. There have been thousands, white and black, who have heard his sermons all over the country. When he left a place there would be hundreds that obeyed the Word of God by being baptized into Christ. It has been estimated that in his preaching career, he baptized at least forty thousand precious souls into the body of Christ, making him responsible for populating heaven with more souls of the saints than anyone else this side of the first century. Brother Keeble passed from this life April 20, 1968.
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