2018-08-102018-08-101905/03/01http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11989/6531Dr. Sears was born Juanuary 1st, 1804 in Virginia. Went to Kentucky to study law. Was a Baptist minister. Left the ministry during the Civil War to support the South. After the war went back into the ministry. His wife was Anna B. Bowie SearsBaptist churches