A Sesquicentennial History of the Green River Missionary Baptist Church
1836 - 1986, Written and Compiled by Wendell Holmes Rone, Sr., For the One
Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Church, 1987. By
permission of author. Ohio County.

DAVID JARRELL KELLEY MADDOX was the Seventeenth Pastor of the Green River
Church.  He served in the office from January, 1899, to and including May,
1902 - a period of three years and five months - forty-one months.  In that
time he saw the Church membership, which had been reduced drastically by
roll revision from 222 to 138 in 1896, climb back to 161 in 1901, as a
great revival in 1900 added 29 by baptism alone.  The Church paid him
$100.00 per year for his labors in their midst.
    Brother Maddox was born near the village of Rockport, Ohio County,
Kentucky, on May 10th, 1836; and died in the same County, on February 21,
1904.  His body was interred in the family Cemetery near West Providence
Baptist Church, Ohio County, Kentucky, after four Baptist Ministers had
taken an active part in conducting his funeral at the Church.
    He was the son of John Maddox, Jr., a Licensed Minister, but never an
ordained one.  His father was a successful revivalist for years.  His
mother was Amelia B. (Render) Maddox, the daughter of Robert Render and
Charlotte (Barnes) Render.  He bore the name well of one of the most famous
of the pioneer Baptist Ministers of the Green River Country - David Jarrell
Kelley (1791-1831) - who was a faithful Minister of the Gospel of Christ
himself.  He was the eighth child of ten born to his parents, and in his
early years had only the educational advantages afforded by his native
County; but, by close application, labored in the day and studying at
night, and preaching on the Lord's Day, he acquired a large amount of
information on ecclesiastical and literary subjects.
    He was married in March, 1856, to Miss Sallie A. Tichenor, the daughter of
Collier and Ann Tichenor.  To this union twelve children were born.  Two of
them, Edgar Dowden Maddox and Albert L. Maddox, became useful Baptist
Ministers.  His first died about 1900.  In November, 1902, he married Lou
Tichenor, who ministered tenderly to him until his death.
    At the age of ten, in 1846, Brother Maddox was converted and baptized into
the fellowship of the Walton's Creek Church by the writer's maternal
great-grandfather - Alfred Taylor - the Pastor.  The meeting was conducted
in his father's home, and he was among sixteen who were baptized at that
time.  This was the beginning of the work which later grew into West
Providence Church, in July, 1853, the home of the Maddox preachers for four
generations.
    He was licensed by the West Providence Church in June, 1859, and ordained
on May 7th, 1860, by a Council or Presbytery composed of Baptist Ministers
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 Denominational Affairs at large,
attending often the general meetings.  For thirteen years he served as the
Moderator of the Gasper River Association.  He assisted in organizing a
number of Churches, and in ordaining a number of Baptist Ministers, of
which nine had been baptized by him.  The work of the Denomination was
greatly helped by his life and ministry.

Maddox Render Barnes Kelley Tichenor Taylor Austin
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Butler-KY Muhlenberg-KY McLean-KY Daviess-KY

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