Flat Creek Road off McEverf Road in Oakwood, Hall, GA
Also at Cane Creek Baptist Church
Black Mountain Road Dahlonega, Lumpkin, GA
He and his wife are buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Oakwood, Hall, GA
Farmer by Profession
CSA Memorial Headstone at Cane Creek Baptist Church
Pvt Co. E 11 GA. Calvary Confederate States Army
Baptized Aug. 29,1886 in to the fellowship at Cane Creek
Ordained as Minister May 26, 1888
Obituary by Rev L.L. Bennett
One time member Wahoo Baptist Church, Lumpkin County, GA
Obituary of Josiah Clarence Stargel
August 1923
In the death of our beloved brother, Josiah C. Stargel, who departed this life the third week of August 1923. The Oakwood Community has lost one of her best citizens. He was born March 6, 1847, in Union County, GA. He was reared in a day that we had no free education, but he acquired that common sense knowledge which is so much needed to become a leader in community life. He learned how to get the thought from the printed page. Which caused him to become a great reader of papers and books. He kept so well informed on current events that his opinion in regard to public issues was sought by old and young of his neighborhood. The dearest of all books to him was the BIBLE In reading the Book of Books, and preaching the word of our good old comrades of the CROSS. He was led to accept Jesus as Savior and was baptized into the fellowship of Cane Creek Baptist Church, in Lumpkin County, GA on Aug. 29, 1886. He was ordained on May 26, 1888. He was well informed on the fundamental doctrines of his denomination, and always moved his church membership when he moved, retaining his ministership. He was Minister at Flat Creek a the time of his death. He was married to Mary Isabelle Shelton on Nov. 8, 1868 and to this union were born 8 children. He struggled to give them a common school education and he was loyal and true to his family, giving the very best of his life to the interest of each one of the most industrious women we have survives him. He was a man of great faith, smooth and gentle in spirit, slow to speak, but always spoke to the point. I am glad that it was my happy privilege to have known him during the past 10 years and to have loved him, and to have been associated with him in many a conversation about the Kingdom work of our Lord and Master. I shall always hold precious to myself the memory of such a man of God. He said he wanted to go as cheerful to the grave as his faith would permit him.He said in his conversation to me " you need not worry about me for I know that I will be anchored with all the Redeemed of our Savior." While we will miss him here, I want to say that some day we will be reunited in that world where sorrow, death, and separation can not come and loved ones and friends will never part
