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230 of the judges on this occasion being of the white Baptist ministers. Rev. Henry Williams, Jr., now pastor of the Giffield Baptist Church, Petersburg, Va., presented the medal.

IIrs. Colley, before she was married, taught public schools, holding good certificates from the County Superintendents, teaching five years in Norfolk and Nansemond counties, Va.

"Miss Georgie" became Mrs. W. W. Colley, by marriage, November i, 1883, in the Zion Baptist Church, Portsmouth, Va., Rev. C. H. Corey, D. D., President of the Richmond Theological Seminary, officiating, assisted by the pastor. Rev. J. M. Armistead. A large number of ministers were present and took part in this solemn service.

The Foreign Mission Convention of the United States had a few weeks before this closed its meeting in the First Baptist Church, Manchester, Va., where it was voted that Rev. W. W. Colley, the founder of the Colored Baptist Foreign Mission Convention in America, and their mission work in Africa, might take unto himself a wife and be ready to leave for Central Africa, in company with other missionaries, to open the Colored Baptist Mission in the "Vye" country.

The subject of this sketch had been duly consulted on the question of becoming a wife and a missionary.

Dr. S. H. Dismond and Mr. J. B. Cable were chosen as first and second "best men," and in thirty days from