Joseph Freeman
Rev. Joseph D. Freeman was a New Albany Baptist evangelist who briefly appears in the transition period after Roy E. Davis's Pentecostal Baptist Church of God headquarters in Jeffersonville burned in 1934, when William Branham was still connected to Davis's Pentecostal sect and preaching from temporary tent settings before the later purchase of the Billie Branham Pentecostal Tabernacle; Freeman's short pastorate at the Jeffersonville branch suggests he served as an interim stabilizing figure during the shift from Davis's organization to Branham's emerging local control, after which the older Pentecostal Baptist Church identity disappeared from public advertisements.
Rev. Joseph D. Freeman of New Albany, IN, was a Baptist evangelist.[1] After Roy E. Davis' Pentecostal Baptist Church burned down in April of 1934,[2] while William Branham was the assistant pastor of Roy E. Davis' cult and preaching from tents[3] before the 1936 purchase of the Billie Branham Pentecostal Tabernacle,[4] Freeman assumed the pastorate of the Jeffersonville Branch of the Pentecostal Baptist Church organization.[5] The last advertised service at the First Pentecostal Baptist Church before burning was January 24, 1934.[6]
Davis had organized multiple branches of the Pentecostal Baptist Church of God sect, of which he was the General Overseer. He considered moving the headquarters of the sect from Jeffersonville, IN. to Memphis, TN in May of 1934, shortly after the church burned.[7]
Freeman appears to have only been involved in the transition of the church from Roy E. Davis to William Branham. Once the Billie Branham Pentecostal Tabernacle was established, all advertisements for the Pentecostal Baptist Church (the building) ceased.