A. C. (Amzi Clarence) Dixon

Life and Orange County connections

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1. June 1876 to January 1880 Amzi Clarence Dixon serves as pastor of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church Dixon came straight from seminary and drew in students and townspeople through revivals. The university asked him in 1878 to live in a dormitory and take charge of chapel services, which Howell calls the first official tie between a Baptist pastor and the university. He resigned in December 1879 on a call from Asheville, preached his farewell sermons on January 18, 1880, and left on January 21. He went on to pulpits in Chicago and London. Place: Chapel Hill Baptist Church, Chapel HillSearch the index · Almonte Charles Howell, A History of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, 1854-1924 (1945), scan p. 26 · Also: The Chapel Hill Ledger, December 13, 1879, p. 3; The Chapel Hill Ledger, January 24, 1880, p. 3
2. 1877 The Chapel Hill Baptist Church builds an addition for its Sunday school During A. C. Dixon's pastorate the church built an addition that housed the infant class of the Sunday school. People: A. C. (Amzi Clarence) Dixon Place: Chapel Hill Baptist Church, Chapel HillSearch the index · Almonte Charles Howell, A History of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, 1854-1924 (1945), scan p. 29
3. August 27-29, 1878 The Mount Zion Baptist Association meets at Bethel Church west of Chapel Hill The Mount Zion Baptist Association met with Bethel Church, six miles west of Chapel Hill, heard reports on education and missions, pledged to support a young man studying at Wake Forest College, and named its own mission committee to carry on work within its bounds. People: A. C. (Amzi Clarence) Dixon Place: Bethel Baptist Church, six miles west of Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, August 31, 1878, p. 3
4. April 13, 1879 A. C. Dixon baptizes twenty converts in Morgan Creek, among them Charles B. Aycock At the close of a spring revival Dixon baptized twenty people in Morgan Creek near the Purefoy mill. Among them were the student Charles B. Aycock, later governor, and James Y. Joyner, later state superintendent of public instruction. People: Charles B. Aycock, James Yadkin Joyner Place: Morgan Creek near Purefoy's Mill, Chapel HillSearch the index · Almonte Charles Howell, A History of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, 1854-1924 (1945), scan p. 28 · Also: The Chapel Hill Ledger, April 19, 1879, p. 2
5. January 21, 1880 Baptist pastor A. C. Dixon leaves Chapel Hill for Asheville Amzi C. Dixon, who had resigned the Chapel Hill Baptist pastorate in December to accept a call from Asheville, preached his farewell sermons to a crowded house on January 18 after a week of revival meetings and left for Asheville three days later; the church had no successor yet. Place: Baptist Church, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, January 24, 1880, p. 3