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a. Note:   Kentucky, Birth Index, 1911-1999 Name: Leonard H Sorrells
 Date of Birth: 10 Oct 1933
 County: Harlan
 Mother's name: Vida Redd
 Volume Number: 089
 Certificate Number: 44120
 Volume Year: 1933
  He received his Bachelor's Degree from Carson Newman College, Jefferson City, TN. He received his Divinity and Doctorate of Ministry Degrees at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Lousiville, KY.
  Fayetteville-January 5, 1956
 HAROLD SORRELLS ORDAINED - "Harold Sorrells, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Sorrells, was ordained for the ministry at Hannah's Gap Baptist church on Sunday....Harold is a student at the Seminary in Louisville, Ky."
  He was pastor in Louisville, KY, Hopkinsville, KY, Lockland Baptist Church in Nashville, TN and Grace Baptist Church in Sumter, SC.
  The Seventh Pastor of Grace Baptist Church, Sumpter, SC:
 Sunday, July 4, 1976 we welcomed our seventh pastor, Rev. Harold Leonard Sorrells and family, wife Joanne, sons Paul and John, and daughter Ann, and celebrated the Bicentennial of our nation!

 Rev. Sorrells and his cousin, Knox Lambert were reared on adjoining farms in Petersburg, Tennessee, and both were ordained by Hannah’s Gap Baptist Church. On September 1 Jean Peoples began his 12 year ministry as Minister of Music.
 A church business conference on June 8, 1977 triggered a series of events that altered the course of history for Grace. Rev. Sorrells established a committee to “survey needs of the church and formulate a plan of action to repair, redecorate, remodel, and restore our church buildings.” This led to the selling of our property to Tuomey Hospital for $1.1 million, purchasing the long vacant McLaurin Junior High Campus one block away as our third church site for $185,000, embarking on “Together We Build” - raising $500,720, surpassing the “Hallelujah Goal of $400,000.
 Our pastor completed his doctorate in June 1980. On Sunday, October 31, 1982, Dr. Sorrells and the congregation walked down Calhoun Street to our lot and broke ground. Five months later, on March 26, 1983, an automobile accident in Spartanburg County claimed the lives of Dr. and Mrs. Sorrells as they were returning from a Christian Life Seminar in Louisville, Kentucky. Two of the three Sorrells children, Ann and Paul and his family, are part of our fellowship today. (2004)
  He served on the Board of Trustees for Carson Newman College and Furman University.
  He had diabetes and took insulin to control it.
  He and his wife were killed in head on collision by a drunk driver.
  Web: Tennessee, Find A Grave Index, 1796-2011
 Name: Harold Sorrells
 Birth Date: 10 Oct 1933
 Age at Death: 49
 Death Date: 26 Mar 1983
 Burial Place: Petersburg (Lincoln County), Lincoln County, Tennessee, USA
  Social Security Death Index
 Name: Harold Sorrells
 SSN: 412-56-7680
 Born: 10 Oct 1933
 Died: Mar 1983
 State (Year) SSN issued: Tennessee (1953 )


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