" ) Jefferson. Davis Newton

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1 " ) / Jefferson Davis Newton 1892 I)

2 Charles W. Hopper, from the Harrell's Store area, came to Mount Olive in Although he served as the official minister of the church for only one year, he lived in Mount Olive many years and served the churches in the Eastern Association. He was very capable and "could do anything with his hands." It is said he built his own two-story house. He was easy going an.d not easily angered. An elderly lady in "" Clmton remembers that he had one good Sunday shirt which he would wash out and hang on the back of his road cart to dry until he arrived at the next church. He was married to Lou Matthews and they had no children., In 1892, another Wake Forest man, Jefferson Davis Newton, age 28, of Kerr's Station, Sampson County, came to serve the congregation. He and his wife and young son, Mills, had room and board with Mr. and Mrs. Y. H. Knowles, and it is recorded in his diary that he ate country ham at least once a week. One of his sermons indicates that he believed very strongly that he, as the minister, had a right to expect the loyalty, support, and prayers of the people in the work they were trying to do together for God. The church had the services of this young man for a short time; after which he went back to Thomasville to work with JEFFERSON D N ~_~~J the church and the orphanage there. Mr. Newton's. < :.--> E T wife was Martha Mills, the daughter of the founder of Oxford Orphanage and Mills Home. They had three sons, Mills, William (Doc), now athletic director at Guilford College, Adrian, now clerk of the North.Carolina Supreme Court, and a daughter, Esther. Following Mr. Newton's term of service, the church was a year without a pastor. Then in 1894, A. A. Butler, from Clinton, accepted the call. Mr. Butler was once an Episcopalian and changed to the Baptist faith. He was rejected by his family because of this. He must have been a man of strong convictions. Membership at this time was 105 and services were held every fourth Sunday. J. F. Oliver was Sunday school superintendent for his last year, and there were nine teachers and 67 scholars. o '- For the next two years the church had in- U~ terim pastors, and then a tall school teacher from Warsaw, Luther Rice Carroll, came. He was affectionately called "Long Rice." It was said that everybody came out to watch him ride into town because he always made his horse hurry, and he was such a funny sight with his long legs sticking up above the buckboard and his coat tails flying. He loved a good joke, and a hearty back slap from his large hand could almost flatten a man. Mr. Carroll was married to Jemima Carlton. They had no children. He served our church well for four years, all the while serving as principal of Warsaw High School. His brother's people are still active in educational work in North Carolina. His great -6- i 1 4 nephew is CharI During his pas and the memb the church agai James In 1902 Needham wife and young the old Bill George Flow bered helping an old grey interesting preached in of bird hunting here. He went study at the se as pastor in South Carolina at Mars Hill. He near the home Inez Jackson in time Mr. B. A. S day school supe Mack, is now a ville College in church of 182 ".._... ~

3 NEWTON, JEFFERSON DAVIS, Thomasvi I Ie, N. C.--Born Sampson Co., N. C.; Stud. W.F.C.; S.B.T.S.; Lie. 1882, Ord. '85, Lisbon Ch., N. C.; - P. Mt. Mor i ah, Rose of Sharon, Concord, Co I d Water, Independence Hi I I, Thomasvi lie, Rich Fork, Orphanage; Ed. "Charity & Chi Idren;" "The News," Thomasvi Ile.--. BAPTIST MINISTERIAL DIRECTORY, Geo. Lasher, ed., p. 532

4 NEWTON, J. D. Sem. '86-88, from Chapel Hill, N. C., grad. Past. D. (Note: Past. D. means school of pastoral duties) SOU. BAPT. THEO. SEMINARY, , p. 153 By: John R. Sampey (B/207/So8s)

5 NEWTON, JEFFERSON DAVIS, 82-6, rei ig. edit., min., Thomasvi I Ie. d12-47 WAKE FOREST ALUMNI DIRECTORY, p. 193

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