"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone. Probably published in 1944 by Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 332-333. Used by permission. [Daviess] DAVID JARRELL KELLEY MADDOX: This faithful minister of the Gospel bore well the name of that pioneer preacher of the Green River country, Elder David Jarrell Kelley. Our subject was born near the village of Rockport, in Ohio County, Ky., on May 10, 1836. He was the son of John Maddox, Sr., a licentiate, but never an ordained, minister. His father was a successful revivalist for many years. His mother was Amelia B., daughter of Robert and Charlotte Barnes Render. Brother Maddox was the eighth child of ten and in his early years had only the educational advantages afforded by his native county, but by close application, laboring in the day time, and studying at night, and preaching on the Lord's day, he acquired a large fund of information on ecclesiastical and literary subjects. He was married in March, 1856, to Miss Sallie A. Tichenor, daughter of Collier and Ann Tichenor. To this union twelve children were born. Two of them, Edgar D. and Albert L., became useful Baptist ministers and their sketches occur in this history. His first wife died about 1900. In November, 1902, he married Lou Tichenor, who tenderly ministered unto him until his death. At the age of ten, Elder Maddox was converted and baptized into the fellowship of Walton's Creek Church by Elder Alfred Taylor. This meeting was conducted in his father's home and he was among sixteen who were baptized at the time. This was the beginning of the work which grew later into West Providence Church, the home of the Maddox preachers for the past three generations. He was licensed to preach by the West Providence Church in June, 1859, and ordained on May 7, 1860, by a presbytery composed of Elders Alfred Taylor and J. F. Austin. In his ministry of forty-four years he served sixteen churches. They were: Rochester in Butler County, West Providence, Pond Run, Mt. Carmel, Beaver Dam, Woodward's Valley, West Point, Green River, Cool Spring, and Mt. Zion in Ohio County, Paradise, Central City, and Drakesboro, in Muhlenberg County; Buck Creek and Livermore in McLean County; and, South Hampton in Daviess County. Brother Maddox took a deep interest in the denominational affairs at large, attending often the general meetings. For thirteen years he served efficiently as the Moderator of the Gasper River Association. He assisted in organizing a number of churches and in ordaining a number of preachers of which nine had been baptized by him. The work of the denomination was greatly helped by his life and ministry. His death occurred in his sixty-eighth year, on February 21, 1904. He was buried in the family cemetery near West Providence Church, after four ministers had taken part in conducting the funeral at the church. Maddox Kelley Barnes Render Tichenor Taylor Austin = Ohio Butler Muhlenberg McLean http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/daviess/maddox.djk.txt