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 Uploading ....Dr. George W. Truett (1867−1944) graduated from Hicks Academy and was known world-wide as an evangelist—the “Billy Graham” of his day (another famous evangelist). His birthplace is located in a framed building on U. S. Highway 64 West, approximately one and a half miles from the town center. The Truett Memorial Baptist Church in Hayesville is named in his honor. Dr. Truett was an educator who founded Hiawassee Academy, a private school, in 1887 in nearby Hiawassee, Georgia. In 1889 he moved to Texas where he attended Baylor University and was instrumental in putting the University’s hospital in sound financial condition. Because of his outstanding contributions there, he is often referred to as the “Father of Baylor University Hospital.” Since his death in July 1944, buildings for religious, educational, and healing were erected or designated as memorials to him. Included in these memorials are an orphanage, a junior college, and three churches in Denver, Los Angeles, and Hayesville. As a prolific writer and author, one of Dr. Truett’s best known works is The Salt of the Earth, published in l949. (See web site http://www.sbhla.org/bio-gtruett.htm for more information about Dr. Truett and his writings.)
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