L. M. Mobley

Law McCrorie Mobley, 1920-1980, served as pastor of the Washington church from March 1953 to September 1957. In 1956 the church constructed a new Sunday School building on the NE corner of the sanctuary.

Law Mobley served as pastor of Ridge Spring Baptist Church in South Carolina just before coming to Washington in February 1953. He left Washington in September 1957, going to FBC, Douglas, GA,; going from there to FBC, Lakeland, FL, in 1961; from there to Sherwood Baptist, Albany, GA, in 1964; from there to Stillman Baptist, Kinston, NC, in 1967;  and from there to Unity Baptist, Honea Path, SC, in 1969. While there he became afflicted with cancer, which caused him to leave the ministry in 1972 at age 52 and to die in 1980 at age 60.

Law and his wife, Miriam McElrath Mobley, had two sons born while they were in Washington. David McElrath Mobley, MD, shown below, has a family practice in Fort Mill, SC, and his younger brother, John Mobley, is pastor of a Baptist church in Tellico Plains, TN. After Law's death, Miriam remarried Grover Cleveland Smith, who died February 1, 2009, and she is now a resident of Martha Franks Baptist Retirement Center, Laurens, SC.

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