Introduction
Born: April 21, 1783, North Killingworth, Connecticut.
Died: May 16, 1844.
Buried: East Windsor Hill Cemetery, South Windsor, Connecticut.
Born: April 21, 1783, North Killingworth, Connecticut.
Died: May 16, 1844.
Buried: East Windsor Hill Cemetery, South Windsor, Connecticut.
Asahel was the son of John Nettleton and Hannah Smith.
He was educated at Yale College (now Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut), 1805–09. He was licensed to preach in 1811, and ordained in 1817.
He is remembered as a theologian and evangelist. He never settled as a pastor with any congregation, but preached in western Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York; in Virginia (1827–28); and Great Britain in 1831.
In 1813, he “is believed to have written the music for the gospel song eventually to be called I’m a Soldier Bound for Glory…words by William R. Phillips 1922…in the Songbook of the Salvation Army” (Wikipedia).
If you know Nettleton’s place of death,