Jesse Archibald Lockhart

J. A. Lockhart was born August 24, 1871 on the Lockhart farm in the Flat Gap Community in Jefferson County, Tennessee. He was the 12th of 14 children born to Jesse H. and Elizabeth Lucinda Elliott Lockhart.

He attended Caldwell School, New Market Academy, Carson-Newman and Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

Lockhart began his ministry in 1896 with his first pastorate being at the Nolachucky Association’s Pleasant View Baptist Church in 1899. Up until his retirement in 1946, he pastored 32 different churches in Jefferson, Grainger, Hamblen, Greene, Sevier and Knox counties as well as serving in Cumberland Gap, Kentucky with the Home Mission Board.

Rev. Lockhart died September 7, 1969 at the age of 98.