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McthodiStS. together with a few
northern MethodiStS who came
to Chadbourn with the Sunny
South Colony, organized the
IChadbourn Methodist Church
having as their trustees J. T
Ncwland, f. \. Pifer. and II
ICowan.
The first pastor was A. Il
Raven. who preached at White
willie. Ccrro Gordo, Evergreen
nj FAIR Bluff.
The Chadbourn Methodist
'nurch was At first a part of
he WhitcvIllc Circuit. In 1904
he charge was called White
.vlllc-Chadbourn. Afterwards
.ow charge was formed CallcC
.Chadbourn-Bolton This char
was made in 1907 when Chad
bourn was taken off the Whit.
Vile Circuit. II was chanGv
tgaIn in 1910 to Chadbourn-
llallSbOro and il was not until
1912 that the charge was known
aS the Chadbuurn Circuit. which
included FAIR Bluff, Evergreen.
Ccrro Gordu. and Chadbcurn. In
lgi9 the charge vas divided into
so paliS-CuIdboVrn and Far
Bluff on the ChLd5ourn charge
remained Chadbuu:n and Ever
-rccn. on July !. 1857. Chad
Dourn became Il station.
When the church was fIrs.
arganiLcd. they did not have d.
building Of their Own, but scrv-
COS were held once a mH;h IN
the Baptist Church, N~s tn,
wear 1901. two ConSccratCd Pres
Dytcrians. Mr.. and Mrs. J. A
Brown. donated tha present lot
Du w...a the old church stood
Il Vas during the passionate OF
Rev. y = barnes the iIrs
church was erected and in the
carly part Of 1902 il was dcdicat-
ed by Bishop Ionn {. Kilgo
with 81 very large congregation
prcs,u.
The organization of the Sun
day School followed soon after
the organization Of the church.
The Sunday School supcrintcnd-
cntS through the years have
Dccn as follows:
First. Mr.. NJ. X. Allen, then
in succession came Mr.. J. w.
Louper. F. T. Usher. f. a. PIfcr.
Mrs X X. Moors, DR.. J f.
Kooncc. Mrs. Torn Lewis. Mir. W
X Willis, DR.. J. p. Bardin. Jr..
Lem Winesctte. Mr.. J. W. Moon
ey. DR.. Ben Ward. Mr. Clyd,
and Mr.. Paul Avant.
Pastors serving the churci
since its organization are as fol-
lows: a r. Raven, 1897. Dcccas-
ed: y. s. Barnes, 1899. Super
Raleigh. N. c: }. /
Draper. 1904, Supcrannuatco
Warrcnton, n. C.; V. +. Wright.
1906. Deceased. {. l.. Vale. 1907.
Deceased: W C. Martin. 1911
Supcrsnnuatcd. Clayton. n. C..
d. l.. Earnhardt, 1914. Deceased:
G.. Ray Jordan. y ycar. Profess
or Emory University. Atlanta
Ga; 3. +. Stanficld. 1917, De-
ceased; 3. o. Merritt. 1921; Lin
say Frazier, 1923; I. Z. Davis.
1924. Deceased. e. r. Heath.
1923; NJ w. Lawrence. 1882: +.
b. Joyner, 1886, Deceased: +. C..
Mancss, 1888: w l.. 10y. 1912:
J. W. Lincberger, 1914: c. j.
Andrews. 1913; E. Z. Vale. II,
l949: C. c. Kinlaw. 1853: ]. +.
Hodges, 1854; r. F. Mckee, 1855 ::
The old church stood for So
years before being replaced by.
our present building. which was
designed by j. Whitney Cum
Architect.
The Building Fund Of the new
,hurch was started one Sunday
morning during the ministry OF
Rev. W. l.. 10y in the yeat 1912. /
lie announced at the morning
ervice he had received a check
or $1,000 from d. d. Bruton for
re starting of a building fund |
or a new Methodist Church.
To this fund more was added !
shortly afterwards the Confer
nee met ana sent Rev. J. w.
,ineberPer To Chadbourn. Und-
r his pastoratc ;he funds were /
increased to over the $50. 900
mark. .s
Then began the pastorate Of
lev. {. f. Vale. Under his guild
nee the church building was
'egun. The congregation became
cry interested and church.
linded. The members ans
riends opened their hearts and
,ir pocketbooks. We reached
'H int in our building pro-
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