Jonas Eathorn

Jonas Eathorn (?-1865) was a sovereign grace believer. He was an a member of the Old Tabernacle, Plymouth, for many years and close friend of Robert Hawker. A stroke rendered him cripple from the waste down, an affliction he suffered for the last twenty-seven years of his life.

  • Henry Fowler,  Jonas Eathorn

    The Life And Ministry Of Jonas Eathorn

    This man was the paralytic concerning whom Dr. Hawker has given an interesting account in his "Zion's Pilgrim." I wrote an outline of the paralytic’s life from his own mouth, at the request of Dr. Hawker, but it was never printed. I shall devote a few pages for the purpose here, as I judge many of my readers will read the history of my worthy brother, Jonas Eathorn, with much pleasure. Jonas Eathorn was by trade a barber and hairdresser. He attended close to his business, and when he went from home to attend upon gentlemen, he used generally to be seen in a full trot; but such a lover was he of white ale, (a beverage I never saw but at Plymouth,) that he…