Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Joseph Willis was an early 19th-century minister who has been described by some historians as the "father of the Baptist religion in Louisiana". Willis, a freedman from South Carolina, appeared in Louisiana as early as 1798. He was the son of an Englishman and a Cherokee slave. His first church mission failed, but he redoubled his efforts and was rewarded with a successful congregation in Opelousas, the seat of St. Landry Parish.. }
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- Joseph_Willis comment "Joseph Willis was an early 19th-century minister who has been described by some historians as the "father of the Baptist religion in Louisiana". Willis, a freedman from South Carolina, appeared in Louisiana as early as 1798. He was the son of an Englishman and a Cherokee slave. His first church mission failed, but he redoubled his efforts and was rewarded with a successful congregation in Opelousas, the seat of St. Landry Parish.".