Area demiddotSths and f1 Htgt John (urtls Kidd 86 died Wed-

nesdai at has home inmiddotRennett f uneral services were held Friday at

lkgtnneu mlif lburch with the Rev Hobert I din and the Rev Robert ltbb offtdatmg Hurla I was at the thurch cemltery

He Y as a native of Chatham County and a retired llaptiSt minister servmg churches m Chatham and Randolph Counties and a moderator of the Sandy ltreek Assoication and the Randolph lount) BaptiSt Auociation ror several years

Hev Kidd was Uceued to preach in 190 and was ordained in 1921 by Bennett Baptist Church In the years ro11owtn1 be served as pastor or the roUowlnamp Baptist churches Deep River Bennett ruver Side 1-all Creek Oakley Union Grove

Bear Creek Antioch Huldah Kiaeus Ml Pleasant Glenola Roeky River Mt Lebanon and West Asheboro

He and three other ministers were instrumental in rormq the Randolph Haptist Aaocialion

Surviving are his widow Mrs Laura c middotooper Kidd daUBbten Mrs Margaret laness or Robbtns Mn Comnie Green or Aberdeen ttrs Dorodly Haneoct of Hear Creek Mrs Cordia Shelton of High loint Mrs Johnsie Boulding of Bennett 11tepdaUlbters Mrs Hazel Garner Mn Treva Chrisco and Mn Clarabelle Chrisco au or Seqrove aons Lewis and Henry Kidd or Bennett Norman Kidd ol Ramsuer stepaona Rev Maurice Ceepel of Raleilb Cooper ol Ramsuer brothers Isaac Kidd or ltreensboro Philbert Kidd of Graham and Geetife Kidd of Bonlee 25 srandmiddot cbildren 12 middot~ and 2e

jPForo c11vern Aacgrc1 lymouth Roanoke 8-n

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Ti_N_ RobblM Record Robblnwflle Orehem S111r Robenonvlllbull Hereld Roxboro Courlef-T lrnN Autherfordlonmiddot A11therford Co

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OCT 2 7 197Z

DE~F ~IVE~ 3h~IS CHURCii 1882- - 982 COLERIDGE K C

BY Joyce F Dayenis and Ka ace E Jarrell (286175661D29)

Taught School in Moore an Chatham Counties 1902-03 908- 4 Served as prin-ci pa 1

Several commendations in the Biblical Recorder at various times

Sources - Minutes of Sandy Creek Assn Obituary from Sanford Herald (Lee County) Biographical Files (Baptist Historical Collection ake Forest Univer-sity Win s ton -Salem IJC

THE RE AlGUS GORDm LASSITER 1918-1920

Born - April 16 1868 middot1ontgomery County C to Stephen amp argaret Ruby Deaton Lassiter

Died - September 9 1950 Guilford County NC

Bur middot ed - Lassiter Cenetery Dover Community ~ontgomery County middotIC

Education - Unknown

Ordained - 1ay 16 191 - ~o middoter Sap ist Church Moore County NC

S0r1e pastcrates - Chahim County Antioch Bennett Brush Creek Fall Creek Hickory Gm e Moore County middotiechanics Hill Pine Grove Randolph County Beulah Deep River Riverside

tmiddot~arried - anuary 1 1885 to Fannie C ven in middot~ontgo iery County NC

Children - Bevin Lillie Ester Lassiter freeran George St2phen Ina Helen Lcssite Sy middotes aner Carol middotn

The Rev Lassiter wcs a charter r~r~er of the Sar Baptist Church County on the 5th Su~day in January 888 D r middotng the ate 1car ly 19JOs he _ened as a teacher and school co111issioner S rmiddotii-gs S1iool al o in Montgor1 ry County near Star

in middotiontgorrery SOOs and at the Popla r

Soui ces - 1middotinuies of Scndy Creek ssn The Rev Charles L Lassiter (nephew) Minu1es of Dover Baptist Church 11 Pattern of Timeless 11ornents (a history of middotiontgomery County) by 1abe l S assiter

THE REV JOHI~ CURTIS KIDD _921-1925

rn - Deceriber 9 1290 cia hcm ounty NC to Dennis Curtis amp rary Jane Smith f~icid

Died - October 19 1977 Chdt am County NC

8Jried Bennett Baptist Church Cemetery Chntham Co 1Jr1middot~y C

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DEEP RIER BAPTIST CHURCE 88]-1982 COLEFIDGE rmiddot C

BY Jo ce Da bullis and Wallace E Jarre_l (286 75661D29)

Education - Fal 1 Creek School (Grades 1-7) ~ Vernon Springs Academy

Ordained - October 1 921 at the Sandy Creek Associational Meeting held at Bennett Baptist Church hatham County NC

Some pastorates - Chatham County Ant ioch Bear Creek Bennett Fall Creek Oakley Rocky Ri er Randolph County Deep River Glenola Huldah Mt Lebanon ~t Pleasant Riverside Union Grove West Asheboro also Kinnetts association or county unknown

Married - 2nd Sunday in June 19 1 to Lula Frances Caviness (Died August 7 1966 ) Decem er 968 to Laura tcreil Cooper

Children - Lewi s C J Henry ~orman Bennett imiddotargaret l(idd Maness Cornie Greene Dorothy Kidd Hancock Cordia Kidd Shelton Johnsie Kidd Bouldin

First serrion vas pimiddoteached at Mt Zion Methodist Church taken from James 3 -with vemiddotse 5 as his text

~a s 3 1-hen he carne to Deep i ver which was one of his first churches

Rode a white horse to church ~he first year had a car the second year

Did muc h evangelistic work

Bapt i zed hundreds of microersons into n~nbership of his churches

~as one of the leaders instru~ental in the formation of the Randolph ssocia-tion middot served as Moderator of both the Sandy Creek and Randolph Associations

ery active in ssociational Ork

S urces - imiddotinutes of Sandy Creek Assn Minutes of Randolph Assn ks Cordia Kidd Shelton (d~ught r) Personal records of Rev Kidd Chatham rehs (Obituary)

THE REV COLON McCARTlN STRICLAND 1925-193 Sept 1939-Dec 1942 1952-1 961

orn - ecr ber 31 ESB Harnett County NC to Rev William Henry amp Etter Saker Strickland

Died - une 4 1972 ~2ndo ph County NC

6uried - s ury Saptist Churc h Ce etery middotiontgor-ry County iK

Education - Fil-st at~-1ded sch101 nea r Smiddotar ~C 1a1 bu-g Acaderny iJallburg NC

Ordai11ed - 1913 roJn Baptist Church Greens oro K

Rev John U Kidd Serves His II01ne

Community veil Rev J ~ Kidd a nnlivc o Cbat-

)1im county jg a phophet 1ith honor in his pwn country Rev tr f9dil prccrfl to work timong his own friemlR therefore tserbullcd several churehcs along the rando1ph-Chnt-ham county line

He is a son of D C Kidd and Mary J KfdJ o Bennett In 1900 he began his ministry which has in-crei cltl in zoal and re11ults or senmiddotmiddot Ice gt early si1ce thut tinw lie is n mcmbltr or the Sanclr Crtck Associl-tion and first sen cd his home church at Bennett rcnaining ft)r SCCn years Ith his om community fhc pres-ent pastorate includes Union Grove Jall Crftk Antioch Oikll) and ampAr C ek with a membership of cle~en hundred

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