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REVEREND PINKNEY OLIVER

Reverend Pinkney Oliver was born in Guilford County on 19 June 1838. He

was the son of Allen and Mariah Williams Oliver. He served in the Civil War

as a colporteur. This is the same as our chaplain of today.

He was a pioneer missionary Baptist preacher, being ordained into the

ministry on the third Saturday in September, 1863. Reverend Oliver attended

Beulah Male Institute during 1859. After the war he taught nine terms of

school, then he entered pastoral work.

After the war he came to Stokes County and built the original part of

the beautiful old home that they called "Pleasant Retreat". He became an ex-

cellent farmer and business man aside from his pastoral work. This home was

located in the Chestnut Grove community.

Reverend Oliver was instrumental in the erection of seven churches. About

500 people were baptized into the church by him. He performed an equal number

of marriages and preached an equal number of funerals, but these figures canot

estimate the worth of his work. His own daily christian life was seen and felt

by thousands who were influenced by it. He was the first pastor of Brims Grove

Baptist Church. This church was established in 1902.

He married Louisa Anderson Vest, daughter of Nathaniel and Pauline Vest.

Louisa's parents died when she was small and she made her home with a Dr. R. A.

Hauser near Tobaccoville until her marriage to Reverend Oliver.

Three children were born to this couple. They were:

1. Mary Rebecca who married Isaac Martin Gordon and had three daughters. They were Evelyn, Nell, and Mary Lois.

2. Samuel Theroda who married Fannie Ham.

3. Martha who married Rufus Crawley.

Stokes County is indebted to this great man of God who did so much in

ministering to the people in their spiritual life and helping in the work of

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establishing churches over the county. But his influence did not end in his

death for the granddaughters of this great pioneer worker have continued in

his footsteps by donating land for the new Chestnut Grove School. Surely

Reverend Oliver and his wife, Louisa, would approve of such generosity. It

is in keeping with the way they spent their lives - working for the betterment

of mankind.

By : Alice Tucker

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Minister Officiates At Many Stokes Weddings Rev. Pinkney Oliver, promi­

nent Baptist minister, school teacher , businessman and farmer, performed the mar­riage ceremony for the fol­lowing Stokes County couples:

1867- Dr. Kalb Smith, Eliza A. Brown; William S. Taylor, Eliza Southern; Hubbard Brown, Louisa Smith.

1868 · John G. White, Barbara Jane Tuttle.

1870 · John S. Campbell, Sallie A. Meadows.

1873 · Elias D. Caudle, Rebecca L. Martin.

1874 - Joseph M. Edwards, C. Elizabeth Culler; George Glenn, Lydia Ann Dalton; Levi Glenn, Charity Hauser; Abram Heath, Emeline Covington; Frank Jackson, Carolina Kel­lum.

1875 - York Kellum, Han­nah Glenn; William M. Watts, Mary Elizabeth Tuttle; Tandy Matthews, Lizzie Campbell.

1876 - Charles Dalton, Matilda Jackson; Louis Wil­son, Sarah C. Hutchens.

1878 - Joel W. Stewart, Margaret J. Meadows; Lewis Jackson, Henrietta Martin.

1879 - Joseph Edwards, Lu­vina Miller; Squire Venable, Columbia V. Gentry; Joseph H. Gibson, Mary J. Powers; James W. Bostick, Lucy J. Mambert.

1880 · Jacob Hauser, Eady Hairston; Thomas Walter Terry, Elmira Jane Holland.

1881 - ·w. H. Boyles, Elizabeth Powers; James J. Boyles, Amanda L. Meadows.

188? • John F . Browder.. Nancy H. Powers; John William King, Lucy E. Ed­wards; Wade Tuttle, Cordelia J. Stewart; James A. Weisner, Nancy Hodge Wall; William F. Ashburn, Caroline Hunt.

1883- Daniel W. Hall, Laura Jane Southern; James T. Johnson, Regina J. Edwards; Larkin Walker, Minerva Rieves.

1884- Willie L. Smith, Me­lissa E. Tillotson.

1885 ·Caleb Tuttle, Eliza J. Chatten.

1886 · Robert W. Jessup, Bettie A. Lynch.

1887 - William J. Johnson, Nannie Jane Slate; W. H. Eaton, Ada Heath.

1888 - Francis A. Slate, Laura Victoria Smith; Rufus B. Abbott, Jennie Owen.

1889 - W. J. Branch, Lucy A. Fletcher.

1890 - Robert A. Covington, Mary Ann King.

1891 - Malley Reynolds, Rosey Taylor.

1892 - Columbus Reynolds, Lucy Reynolds; John N. Roberts, Susan R. FuJk; Henry S. Smith, Martha E. Fulk; James E. Wilson, Susan Alice Moore.

1894 - Arthur N. Savage, Laura F. Ayers; William H. Slate, Mary E. Meadows;

Robert L. Winfrey, Cora Bell Vipman.

1895- William W. Edwards, Leutitia A. Boyles.

1896 - Peter W. Fulton, Flora Thompson.

1898 · Jesse A. Lawson, Mary Eliza Martin.

1900 · J. William Slate, Martha A. Meadows.

1901 -John W. Lawson Jr., Louella Lynch.

1903 · Boney N. Smith, Hessie H. Bennett.

1904 - William L. Darnell, Cora B. Edwards; Oscar T. Gentry, Carrie M. Bennett; Walter L. Eaton, Minnie F. Edwards.

1905 - Scales Cromer, Martha A. Tillotson; Ernest Kiser, Ola Tillotson; Millard Smith, Jennie Venable; Pink­ery 0. Bennett, Delia Vanable.

1906 - Gaston A. Carroll, Ella Gentry; Numa G. Coving­ton, Nannie Lunsford; James M. Napier, Mary M. Coving­ton; W. A. Petree, Mary Lee Venable; Luther K. Pulliam, Bessie M. Gibson; D. T. Rutledge, Lillie Fulp; Cary Reid Tuttle, Mae Ola Coe; Virgil Eaton, Carrie Lee Boyles; William S. Boyles, Nannie Scott; Jasper A. Boyles, Anna C. Venable.

1907 · CaryL. Carroll, Lettie B. Lemly; James R. Culler, Laura Darnell; Gaston W. Meadows, Martha Adelia Car­roll; Jasper M. Bennett, Georgia V. Smith; Gaston M. Allen, Lola Turner; Calvin 0 .

Boyles, Virginia Bennett; R. F. Bondurant, Jennie Slate.

1908 - William S. Denny, Marie Gibson; William I. Gordon, Harriet Scott; J. Marshall Smith, Effie Boyles; Edgar 0. Spainhour, Lula Schultz; Charley H. Boyles, Sarah E. Gordon.

1909 · William V. Brown, Cora Alice Salley; J. P. Covington, Laura Powers; N. Ross Hamm, Vallie Maude Coe; Ernest C. Slate, Ethel L. Carroll; E. W. Lane, Eva Edwards; Asa M. Smith, Mary J. Gibson.

1910 - John A. Smith, <;Iaudia B. Johnson; Linnev R. Pulliam, Carrie M. Hartgrove; Robert D. Kiser, Mallie G. Johnson; Ernest C. Barr, Pearl L. Westmoreland.

1911 - James Walter Kiser, Nina Agnes Culler; William H. Gibson, Martha E. Boyles; Ernest D. Eaton, Nannie Edwards; Peter Bodenhamer, Nora Lane; Henry T. Apper­son, Eleanor J. Phillips.

1912 ·Dewitt Cook, Maggie L. Boyles; Thomas J. Rierson, ~ Lonie E. Gravitt; Ollie J. • Boles, Vallie M. King; John . j Sidney Boyles, Minnie E. Wall; Dewitt 0. Slate, Mamie J. Gravitt; Joe E. Stone, '~ Martha L. Pulliam.

1913- W. S. Gordon, Verlie Page; W. E. Ross, Maud Green; R. G. Boyles, Pearlie Shelton.

1914 - R. L. Snyder, Hattie E. Gibson.

'Yes' Vote Is Urged (Continued From Page 1)

their tobacco program," Sledge emphasized.

A two-third majority of those voting is necessary to retain the tobacco program and, failing this, there would be no poundage quota, and no price supports on the 1983 crop.

The Farm Bureau president

also urged growers to vote on the continuation of Tobacco Associates, the flue-cured tobacco export promotion organization. This referendum will be held in conjunction with the quota referendum.

Local polling places have been designated in each county by the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS).

Arts Council Auction Is Dec.ll

The Stokes County Arts Council will present an auction of art and craft items at the cafeteria at Southeastern Junior High School beginning at 12 noon for those who want to preview the selection. A wide variety of handmade gifts, including pottery, prints, sculpture, woodcraft and jew-

elry, will be available to bidders.

Also, this year's Landmark VII print will be unveiled. Artist Fran Speight will present her commissioned drawing of a Stokes County site, which will be sold as a signed, limited-edition print.

Hayes Commissioned InArmy Helen A. Hayes, daughter of Betty R. Davis of California and

Chris Hayes of Route 1, Pinnacle was commissioned an Army second lieutenant upon recently graduating from the Officer Candidate School, Fort Benning, Ga.

During the 14-week course, students were trained in leadership,_ small unit tactics and infantry weapons.

REPORT ON OBITUARIES

Rev. Pinkney 01 iver was born in Gui I ford County, North Carol ina,

June 19, 1838, and died October 29, 1914. He was a minister of the

Gospel for fifty-five years. He served churches in the counties of

Gui I ford, Forsyth, Davidson, Yadkin, Surry and Stokes. He was an independent

thinker and always loyal to his convictions. His was a long and faithful

service in the vineyard of his Master.

N. C. BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION MINUTES, 1914, p. 96

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THE LATE REV. PI:\'Cl{XEY OLIVER.

Since the passing of this dear man of God into his final rest last Octo­ber it has been on my heart to say a word about him. Circumstances in my own home, however, have kept me from doing several things I want­ed to do; and this among the rest.

As we were returning from the Convention in Shelby in December, l 913, Brother T. H. King, and I went out to Brother Oliver's home in Stokes County and spent the day with him and his lovely family. He

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had been stricken with paralysis be­fore this, but at that time was able to talk well and to get about the house. His interest in the work of the Kingdom of God was as intense and as comprehensive as it could have been had he been in the very nri~ of ~ -li£o. li'or DlO.ny yen

Brother Oliver had been one of the most loyal and faithful supporters of the Board of Education. Whenever there was an emergency call sent out on behalf of the young preache1·s we could count confidently on hearing from Brother Oliver pretty soon. ·when his life-long friend and neigh­bor, Brother James F. Slate spoke to Brother Oliver about trying to honor the Lord in a special way with a part of the money with which God had blessed him, Brother Oliver at once suggested that he establish a loan fund to help young ministers at Wake Forest in times of emergency. Growing out of this suggestion came the Slate Loan Fund, which has been such a benediction to so many young preachers when they knew not where to turn for help.

In the course of our conversation the day we were in his home, some­thing was said about the endowment of the chair of the Bible in Wake Forest College. The question inter­ested this ripe servant of God great­ly, and soon after my return home be sent me his note for a generous contribution toward this worthy end. Who will build on the foundation laid by this good man?

These incidents are characteristic and could be multiplied many times over. But these will suffice. When such a life has been lived amongst us it seems to me we ought to do what we can to accent its key-note in the hope that its essential spirit may be caught and embodied in many other lives and so go on en­riching and blessing the world. Brother Oliver loved God and he lov­ed every creature of Qod with a heart as tender as that of a woman. Who in turn is he that did not love Broth­er Oliver? There is a fragrance left behind him that makes the earth a better place in which to live, and heaven likewise will be richer be-

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cause he is there. The good Lord give to those of us who are left a double portion of his spirit!

W. R. CULLOM. 'Wake Forest, N. C.

.. .. In spite of the great burdeu or building their own hous€ of wor­ship, the First Church of Kinston is rractically supporting four out &ta­tions, or Missions. Under the per­sonal work of Missionary T. J. Hood it is very prollable that five new churches will be constituted in Le­noir County before the meeting of the next Association in November. All of these with the outlook of be­ing speedily brought to a condition of self-support.-Neuse-Atlantic Bap­tist. Edited by Pastor C. W. Blanch­ard, Kinston.

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\Vhen a girl becomes a woman, when a woman becomes a mother, when women pass through the cbanges of middle life, are the three periods of life when health and strength are most needed to with­stand the pain and distress often caused by severe organic disturb­ances.

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Elder Pinckney Oliver was born in Guilford County, N. C. , June HI. 1838, and died October 29, 1914 . aged seventy-six years, four months. and ten days.

He was baptized into the fellow­ship of the Elm Grove Church in September, 1853, by Elder Robert Gausley. In 18"9 be was licensed to preach the Gospel. He was or­dained at Elm Grove Church in Sep­tember, 1863. He '>vas a faithful minister of the Gospel through the long period of fifty-five years. Dur­ing this period he served as pas­tor of the following churches: Elm Grove in Uuilford County- Good Will, Clemmonslde, Union Grove. Becks and Macedonia in Forsyth Co. Hollo"·ays and Reeds in Davidson County-Enon and East Bend in Yad­kin-Sulphur Springs and Eastfield in Surry-Friendship, Mt. Olive, Mt. Tabor, Bethel, Oak Ridge, Peters Creek, Brewers Grove and Olive Grove in Stokes County. These chuN:hes for the most part were weak, struggling bodies in the for­mation period of their existence. He never received much financial assist­ance for his arduous labors in the ministry. It was a joy to help where his labors were sorely needed.

During the last twenty-five years of his life he conducted 276 burial services. He was twice married­first to Miss C. Yirginia Marshall and second to Miss Louisa J. Anderson. Three devoted children survivE> him -Mrs. I. 1\1. Garden, of Pilot Moun­tai!l, N. C .. and Samuel T. and Mar­tha L. Oliver, who reside at the old home. B;-other Oliver was highly esteemed by all who knew him as art honest, faithful, true man. He was j

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an i,ndependent thinker and always loyal to his convitions. He was never ashamed to take a stand on what be belived to be right. He was an humble, self-sacrificing minister of Jesus Christ everywhere, and at all times magnifying the soverign grace of God in the salvation of lost men and women. Scores of people ha:ve been impressed under his 11reacb!ng and led into the light and joy of Christian service. Eternity alone will reveal the blessed influ­ences that have gone out from his consecrated Christian life and labors. His going away was peaceful as an infant's sleep. His favorite hymns were: "How Firm a Foundation"; "My Faith Looks Up To Thee"; "My Hope is Built On Nothing Less.'•

These hymns were sung by his re­quest at his funeral-attended by a large number of friends from many sections of the county: "Servant of God well done ; Rest from thy loved employ; The battle fought, the victory won, Enter thy Master's joy.

"The pains of death are past; Labor and sorrow cease; And life's long warfare closed at

last, His soul ill found In peace."

H. A. BROWN. Winston-Salem, N. C.

The mind ought sometimes to be amused that it may the better return to thought and to itself.-Pbaedrus.

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trom that palntul tried Tetterlne. would have quickly l\frs. Thomas Thorn sara:-"! surrered menUng eczema.. untll T got Tette so thankful!' Eczema, Tetter, RhPum. Itch. and all etc. fiOc at druggl•t ~huntrlne Co ..

Having quail e~tate or ~r. c. Wak" County. this claims agaJnst h same to the und on or be fore the 9th or this notice will of their re covery. estate wJ ! I please to the undersigned.

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SOURCE: SOU. BAPT. CONV. ANNUAL, 1915, p. 432 (B/206/So8)

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