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Facts and Events
| Name |
Elijah S Maddox |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth? |
Abt 1772 |
,Goochland or Henrico. Virginia, USA |
| Marriage |
Abt 1799 |
Prince Edward, Virginia, United Statesto Betsey Ann Brown |
| Death? |
1866 |
,Wilson, Tennessee, USA |
| Burial? |
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Foster Tucker Graveyard, Cedar Grove, Lebanon, Wilson, Tennessee, USA |
| Ancestral File Number |
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1M9H-V5T |
References
- Pulliam, Carla (Carla Cremer). Andrew Moore and allied families. (West Frankfort, Illinois: Franklin County Genealogical Society], c1994)
page 21.
Nothing is known of his family background. A family found him on their step one night when he was a small infant. The name of his family is not known. They gave him the name Elijah Maddox. There were many Maddox’s in the middle Virginia area, especially in Louisa County.
The family into whose hands he fell did not appreciate him, treating him more like a servant. He went to school only a few days of his life. He was probably a preacher when he came to Wilson County, TN. He lived in the vicinity of Cedar Grove, four miles north of Lebanon, TN, and there he helped found the old Cedar Grove Baptist Church in 1813. He had been baptized in the Old Dominion State of Virginia, and he was made the first pastor of the Cedar Grove Baptist Church, where he served for 26 years. In 1837 he went into Franklin County, Illinois, with Rev. R. Borum, and they organized the first Missionary Baptist Church in Southern Illinois. He did much evangelistic work and was in the Constitution of Salem Association.
Several of his children married in Tennessee, went to live in Illinois, together with two Rotramels (who married his daughters). Elijah returned to Wilson County, TN. It’s said that Cedar Grove Church sent out three ministers in 1865; the membership was 99 of which 85 were white and 14 were black. Elijah Sr. died in the time of the Civil War (1866) in the house of Foster Tucker and was buried in the Old Tucker Graveyard in Wilson County, Tennessee, near his lifetime frient, Foster Tucker.
It was said that “he was unexcelled as a preacher in his day. A saintly man of God” - preaching 70 years.
He had 16 children.
- Www.genealogy.com/users/m/a/d/Thomas-F-Maddox.
- Family records.
Baptist Minster, Church about 6 miles north. and west of Lebanon Tenn, about 1810 to 1836. Went to Illinois about 1837 to start another church, The Missionary Baptist Church member Constitution Of Salem Ass. Stayed in Ill. until 1850-55 Info from Paula Fillmore
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