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Charles Edward Maddry

Charles Edward Maddry, born near Chapel Hill in 1876, was superintendent of the Orange County schools from 1901 to 1904, was ordained at the Chapel Hill Baptist Church in 1902, and was pastor of Hillsborough's First Baptist Church from 1902 to 1904 and again from 1951 to 1954. In between he led the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board from 1933 to 1944.

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1876–1962 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineHillsborough’s public school and its first schoolhouses, 1891–19111891–1911 · 10 events · By Pender's account Hillsboro had never owned a school building before 1901, though its public school had opened in the Academy building in 1891. In 1900 the town would offer only a ten-year lease on the old Hillsboro Female Academy lot, which the county board said the law did not allow, and in 1901 the school committee bought a house from E. S. Cooley for $500. Townspeople subscribed for a new schoolhouse in 1902, and in 1903 the Black contractor James Nichols began building it for the town's white children. Voters defeated a special school tax in 1908, but in 1911 the high school opened with 136 pupils, by the Observer's account its largest attendance. StorylineProhibition and the blockaders in Orange County, 1901–19301901–1930 · 22 events · Hillsborough's fight over its saloons gave way to a long struggle against illegal stills across Orange County. In 1903 the town elected a board chosen mostly on the prohibition ticket, which refused every saloon license, and the barrooms closed that June. In 1905 the county commissioners refused the licenses a new town board recommended, and the town voted against liquor dispensaries. The county voted against state prohibition in 1908, though the state carried it, and in 1919 Orange's representative voted against ratifying national prohibition. Blockading, the illegal distilling of whiskey, went on: in 1920 Louis Graves wrote in the New Republic that Orange had the largest distilling operations in the state, and officers kept capturing stills through 1930. StorylineBuilding the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, 1921–19241921–1924 · 9 events · With help from the state Baptist board, the Chapel Hill Baptist Church built a new church facing the campus. In 1921, after Charles E. Maddry of the state board won approval to buy a site, the congregation accepted the lot; members pledged more than $25,000, and the Home Board and state board gave about $100,000. Frank Milburn designed the tan brick and stone church at West Franklin and South Columbia streets, and it opened formally on October 7, 1923. The News put the cost at $136,000, said it seated 1,500 and expected it to serve about 600 Baptist students. Eugene I. Olive began his nine-year pastorate, the church's longest up to then, in April 1924. StorylineOrange Methodist Church’s new building, 1923–19251923–1925 · 4 events · A homecoming on Orange Methodist Church's 109th birthday in July 1923 opened a campaign for a new building north of Chapel Hill. S. J. Brockwell gave the framing lumber, and the new church, with four Sunday school rooms, opened on June 1, 1924 before about a thousand people, when Charles E. Maddry raised about $2,000 toward its debt. At the homecoming of June 1925 Brockwell gave the last $500 of the $800 still owed. StorylineThe fight over Sunday racing, 1956–19581956–1958 · 9 events · When new race tracks in Orange County held races on Sundays, ministers led a fight to stop them that ended in the state Supreme Court. In April 1956 the Rev. W. I. Conway asked the county commissioners to stop the races at a jalopy track near his church, and about 100 people formed the Orange County Anti-Racing Association, but the county attorney said a ban needed special legislation. In 1957 the legislature passed Senator Edwin S. Lanier's bill barring races on Sundays and after 6 p.m. After Orange Speedway, Inc. sued, the state Supreme Court struck the act down on January 10, 1958, and Sunday racing returned with a 100-mile Grand National race won by Buck Baker.

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  1. John W. Canada starts the Canada School in Chapel Hill Soon after graduating from the university in 1896, John W. Canada organized a private school in Chapel Hill that prepared students for college. He ran it with his brother Charles, Sallie Wilson and a Miss Hendon until he left for Texas soon after 1900. People: Louis Graves, Charles Edward Maddry, John William Canada Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Charles S. Canada, Sallie WilsonSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 143
  2. Charles E. Maddry begins teaching Strains School near his boyhood home Maddry, who had been a pupil there, took charge of the one-room Strains School below Nunn's Mountain northwest of Chapel Hill with sixty pupils aged five to twenty-one. Two years later he became county superintendent. People: Charles Edward Maddry Place: Strains School, northwest of Chapel HillSearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 112
  3. Charles E. Maddry serves as superintendent of the Orange County schools While a student at the University of North Carolina, Charles Edward Maddry served as superintendent of the Orange County schools. Place: Orange CountySearch the index · NCpedia: Maddry, Charles Edward
  4. Charles E. Maddry is pastor of First Baptist Church, Hillsborough Charles Edward Maddry was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Hillsborough while finishing his studies at the University of North Carolina. Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · NCpedia: Maddry, Charles Edward
  5. The county school board reports nine new schoolhouses and six rural libraries Meeting at Hillsborough to apportion the school fund, the Orange County Board of Education reported nine new schoolhouses built in the past year: seven paid from the general fund, one paid by its district under the old law, and one given with an acre of land by George Pickard of White Cross. It also had six rural libraries running, the most the law allowed, and planned six more houses for 1902, though building costs left too little money for four-month terms for the county's 4,847 school-age children. People: Charles Edward Maddry Place: Hillsborough · Also named: George PickardSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 23, 1902, p. 3
  6. Charles E. Maddry is ordained at the Chapel Hill Baptist Church Charles Edward Maddry was ordained to the Baptist ministry at the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, now University Baptist Church. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Chapel Hill Baptist ChurchSearch the index · NCpedia: Maddry, Charles Edward
  7. Orange County holds separate institutes for its white and Black teachers Required teachers' institutes met at Hillsborough for a week, the white teachers in the court house under Prof. C. C. Crittenden of Wake Forest College and the Black teachers in a hall west of the court house under Prof. Charles H. Boyer of Raleigh, a Yale graduate, with large attendance at both. On August 23 State Superintendent J. Y. Joyner addressed the teachers of both institutes before one of the largest crowds seen in Hillsborough in years, urging consolidated districts and local school taxes. People: Charles Edward Maddry, James Yadkin Joyner Place: Court house and a hall west of it, Hillsborough · Also named: C. C. Crittenden, Charles H. BoyerSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 21, 1902, p. 2
  8. Caldwell asks for an election on a rural graded school The Caldwell community asked for a vote on establishing a rural graded school, and the board asked the county commissioners to call the election. People: Charles Edward Maddry Place: Caldwell · Also mentions: Caldwell communitySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 54
  9. Hillsborough subscribers and the county school board fund a new public schoolhouse Townspeople answered County Superintendent Charles E. Maddry's appeal with subscriptions for a new public schoolhouse at Hillsborough, where children were being turned away for lack of room, and the county board of education pledged to match every dollar so the house could be built at once; Maddry then advertised for building bids. People: Charles Edward Maddry Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 9, 1902, p. 3
  10. The county board of education apportions the school fund and sets aside $1,000 for new schoolhouses The Orange County Board of Education divided the year's school fund among about 4,700 children of school age and set aside more than $1,000 for new schoolhouses to be built in 1903. People: Charles Edward Maddry, Stephen T. Forrest Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), January 15, 1903, p. 3
  11. Orange County's Black teachers hold their institute at Hillsborough The Orange County institute for Black teachers met at the court house in Hillsborough in the week of July 27, 1903, conducted by Prof. Charles H. Boyer of St. Augustine's School, Raleigh; on July 30 A. C. Burnett, a Black graduate of the A. and M. College at Greensboro raised near Ridge Church, spoke to it on agriculture. People: Charles Edward Maddry Place: Court house, Hillsborough · Also named: Charles H. Boyer, A. C. BurnettSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 6, 1903, p. 3
  12. The board of education orders Chapel Hill's Black school rebuilt in Potter's Field The county board of education ordered the superintendent to sell the Black school house and grounds in Chapel Hill and rebuild in Potter's Field, the Black settlement. At the same meeting it abolished Bethel district in Bingham Township, sending its patrons to White Cross and a neighboring district, and allowed Caldwell's patrons to vote on a local school tax. People: Charles Edward Maddry Place: Potter's Field, Chapel HillOrange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 14, 1904, p. 2
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  1. Charles E. Maddry resigns as pastor of the Hillsboro Baptist church The Rev. Charles E. Maddry, pastor of the Baptist church at Hillsboro and county superintendent of schools, resigned the pastorate on June 26, effective after the fourth Sunday in August, to enter the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville. Place: Baptist church, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), June 30, 1904, p. 2
  2. Superintendent Maddry reports Orange County's school figures County Superintendent Charles E. Maddry's annual report counted 2,981 white and 1,337 Black children of school age, with 1,993 and 983 enrolled, 43 white and 23 Black districts, school property worth $9,680 for white and $2,180 for Black schools, and 15 rural libraries holding 2,000 volumes. Place: Orange CountySearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 28, 1904, p. 2
  3. The Rev. John C. Hocutt replaces Charles Maddry as county school superintendent Maddry resigned in July 1904 to study at the Southern Baptist seminary, and the board chose his friend and former pastor John C. Hocutt to serve out the term. Hocutt stayed until 1908. People: Charles Edward Maddry, John C. Hocutt Place: Orange CountySearch the index · DigitalNC: Irene Oliver Pender, A History of Orange County Schools, 1752-1983 (1983), p. 114 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 7, 1904, p. 3
  4. The State Farmers' Alliance meets at the Barracks, and Governor Aycock speaks at its picnic The North Carolina Farmers' State Alliance held its eighteenth annual session at the Barracks near Hillsborough, where President William A. Graham gave his annual address. On August 10 a well-attended farmers' picnic heard State Superintendent J. Y. Joyner, Governor Charles B. Aycock, Dr. Tait Butler and Charles E. Maddry. People: Charles B. Aycock, Tait Butler, Charles Edward Maddry, James Yadkin Joyner Place: The Barracks, Hillsborough · Also named: William A. GrahamSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), August 11, 1904, p. 2
  5. Hillsborough buries Capt. Robert D. Graham beside his mother Capt. Robert Davidson Graham, a Hillsborough-born son of William A. Graham who had commanded a company of the 56th North Carolina and later served as secretary of the Civil Service Commission, died after a fall from a building in Washington on June 27. His body was brought to Maj. John W. Graham's house, and after a service at the Baptist church led by Charles E. Maddry he was buried in the Presbyterian churchyard beside his mother. People: John W. Graham, Charles Edward Maddry, William A. Graham Place: Presbyterian churchyard, Hillsborough · Also named: Robert Davidson GrahamSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), July 6, 1905, p. 3
  6. Charles E. Maddry marries Emma Parker at Hillsborough Baptist Church The former pastor Charles E. Maddry married Emma Parker, daughter of church members T. B. and Penelope Parker, in the Hillsborough Baptist church. Hight C. Moore and the pastor A. C. Hamby performed the ceremony. Place: First Baptist Church, Hillsborough · Also named: Emma Parker Maddry, Hight C. Moore, A. C. HambySearch the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 35
  7. Joshua W. Gore, professor of physics and dean, dies Joshua Walker Gore, professor of physics and dean of the university, died in a Baltimore hospital on April 8, 1908. A memorial service followed on May 10, and alumni later gave his portrait for the library. People: M. C. S. Noble, Charles Edward Maddry, Joshua W. Gore Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 673 · Also: Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 16, 1908, p. 3
  8. An Orange County Anti-Saloon League is organized after Charles B. Aycock speaks for prohibition Former governor Charles B. Aycock spoke for state prohibition to a large crowd in the Hillsborough courthouse, several merchants closing their stores so their clerks could hear him, and Rev. Charles E. Maddry of Greensboro then organized an Orange County Anti-Saloon League with Frank Nash as chairman, Nathan W. Brown as secretary and an executive committee drawn from every township. People: Charles B. Aycock, Charles Edward Maddry, Frank Nash, N. W. Brown, Samuel Mallett Gattis Place: Courthouse, HillsboroughSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), April 23, 1908, p. 3
  9. The Chapel Hill Baptist Church accepts the site for its new church After Charles E. Maddry, secretary of the state Baptist board, won approval to buy a site, the church in conference accepted the lot and agreed to pay $1,000 at once. Over the next year members pledged more than $25,000 and the Home Board and state board gave about $100,000. People: Charles Edward Maddry 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. 36
  10. Charles E. Maddry urges the faculty to add religious instruction At Harry W. Chase's invitation, Maddry, a university graduate just back from an Austin pastorate to lead the Baptist State Convention, met the faculty and described the University of Texas plan, under which denominations paid Bible teachers whose courses earned university credit. No decision was taken; Chase sent the question to the faculty committee on educational policy. People: Harry Woodburn Chase Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 289
  11. Church leaders spend a day with Chase and the faculty on teaching religion at the university Baptist, Presbyterian, Moravian, Episcopal and Methodist leaders met in President Chase's office with the faculty committee on educational policy. All favored nonsectarian Bible courses; after a day of argument over who would choose and pay the teachers, the churchmen agreed on courses taught off campus by teachers the denominations selected, with credit from the university. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Charles Edward Maddry, Joseph Blount Cheshire Jr. Place: President's office, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 291-293
  12. Mount Moriah church celebrates its centennial More than a thousand people came to Mount Moriah church, about six miles northeast of Chapel Hill, for a homecoming marking the hundredth anniversary of its founding, with dinner spread on long tables in the grove. Rev. Charles E. Maddry told of the Baptist World Alliance meeting at Stockholm and preached in the afternoon, and Julian S. Carr, W. J. Brogden and W. A. Erwin also spoke; Carr said he had been at the fiftieth anniversary. People: Charles Edward Maddry, Julian S. Carr Place: Mount Moriah church, northeast of Chapel Hill · Also named: W. J. Brogden, W. A. ErwinSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 6, 1923, p. 1
  13. Chapel Hill Baptists formally open their new church The Chapel Hill Baptist Church formally opened its new building on Sunday, October 7, 1923, with three services: a sermon by C. E. Maddry of the Baptist State Convention, a history of the congregation by Collier Cobb, greetings from other colleges, and an address by W. J. Brogden of Durham. The News put the cost at $136,000, $102,000 of it raised by the state convention, and said the church seated 1,500 and was expected to serve about 600 Baptist students. People: Charles Edward Maddry, Collier Cobb Place: Chapel Hill Baptist Church, Franklin and Columbia streets, Chapel Hill · Also named: W. J. BrogdenSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), October 11, 1923, p. 1
  14. Eugene I. Olive begins his pastorate at the Chapel Hill Baptist Church Olive was welcomed at a service that drew the town's other ministers and the university president. One of his first changes gave deacons three-year terms with a year off before reelection, and his nine years were the church's longest pastorate up to then. People: Charles Edward Maddry, William Dygnum Moss Place: Chapel Hill Baptist Church, Chapel Hill · Also named: Eugene I. OliveSearch the index · Almonte Charles Howell, A History of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, 1854-1924 (1945), scan p. 37 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, March 27, 1924, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, April 3, 1924, p. 1
  15. Orange Methodist Church opens its new building before a crowd of about a thousand Between 900 and 1,000 people attended the formal opening of the new church at Orange, two and a half miles north of Chapel Hill, on Sunday, June 1, 1924. Baptist leader Charles E. Maddry, who had grown up near the church, preached and raised about $2,000 toward a debt of some $4,400, and the paper credited S. J. Brockwell of Chapel Hill with starting the building movement by giving the framing lumber. People: Charles Edward Maddry, Samuel Jackson Brockwell Place: Orange Methodist Church, north of Chapel HillSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), June 5, 1924, p. 1
  16. Orange Methodist Church tears down its frame church and builds the present sanctuary The new church, which added four Sunday school rooms to what had been a single-room church, was formally opened on Sunday, June 1, 1924, before a crowd The News put at 900 to 1,000. S. J. Brockwell of Chapel Hill had started the building movement by offering the framing lumber, and Charles E. Maddry, who grew up near the church, preached and raised about $2,000 toward a debt of some $4,400. The booklet says the building was still the place of Sunday worship in 1989. People: Samuel Jackson Brockwell, Charles Edward Maddry Place: Orange United Methodist Church, near Chapel HillSearch the index · A Brief History, Orange United Methodist Church, 1832-1989 (1989), scan p. 4 · Also: The News (Chapel Hill), June 5, 1924, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, June 5, 1924, p. 1
  17. Orange Church homecoming wipes out the debt on its building At a homecoming with preaching and a dinner in the grove, Orange Church north of Chapel Hill took up a collection on its $800 building debt; when pledges left $575 owing and $75 more was raised, S. J. Brockwell gave the last $500, clearing the debt. People: Samuel Jackson Brockwell, Charles Edward Maddry Place: Orange Church, north of Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 19, 1925, p. 1
  18. A copy of the 1857 Chapel Hill Literary Gazette is found and given to the University By November 1928 David W. Burch, who lived beyond Orange Church north of Chapel Hill, had found among his father's papers a copy of the Chapel Hill Literary Gazette of July 18, 1857, edited by James M. Henderson, with mourning borders for Elisha Mitchell, and sent it through Charles E. Maddry to be given to the University Library. People: Charles Edward Maddry Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: David W. Burch, James M. Henderson · Also mentions: Orange Church, University LibrarySearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 30, 1928, p. 1
  19. Mount Moriah church holds a homecoming day and hears Charles E. Maddry A congregation that filled Mount Moriah church, five miles from Chapel Hill on the old Oxford road, heard Rev. Charles E. Maddry of the Southern Baptist foreign mission board report on his five-month survey of missions in Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile at a homecoming day. Maddry had been baptized there 59 years before; his grandfather was a deacon of the church for 50 years and his father for 40. Place: Mount Moriah Baptist Church, old Oxford road, northeast of Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 4, 1936, p. 5
  20. Hillsborough Baptists resolve to build a baptismal pool in honor of Charles E. Maddry After a week of preaching by Charles E. Maddry, then executive secretary of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, the deacons and trustees voted to build a baptismal pool named for him and to mark it with a plaque. Place: First Baptist Church, HillsboroughSearch the index · Charles E. Maddry, History of the First Baptist Church of Hillsboro, North Carolina (1953), scan p. 21
  21. Grandchildren of Madison and Rebecca Sugg mark their graves at Bethel church At a Sugg family reunion at Bethel church, six miles west of Chapel Hill, grandchildren of Madison R. Sugg and Rebecca Watson Sugg, among them Dr. Eugene Sugg of Washington and Rev. Charles E. Maddry of the Baptist Foreign Mission Board, presented the memorial stone they had erected over the couple's graves. Maddry preached and the day ended with a basket picnic. People: Charles Edward Maddry Place: Bethel church, six miles west of Chapel Hill · Also named: Eugene Sugg, Madison R. Sugg, Rebecca Watson SuggSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 17, 1941, p. 5
  22. Charles E. Maddry returns to First Baptist Church, Hillsborough, for his last pastorate After his years with the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, Charles Edward Maddry served his final pastorate at the First Baptist Church in Hillsborough. Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · NCpedia: Maddry, Charles Edward
  23. Hillsboro Baptist Church votes to name women deaconesses At a business session on March 11 the church elected ten men as deacons and voted to name four deaconesses, which the News called the first in the church's history; they were to be elected the following Sunday. People: Charles Edward Maddry Place: First Baptist Church, HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 15, 1951, p. 1
  24. First Baptist Church of Hillsborough celebrates its centennial The congregation marked its hundredth year in November 1953 under Charles E. Maddry, with its new educational building finished for the occasion. People: Charles Edward Maddry Place: First Baptist Church, HillsboroughSearch the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 37
  25. Charles E. Maddry publishes his autobiography Charles E. Maddry, pastor of Hillsboro's First Baptist Church and former head of North Carolina Baptist work and of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, published Charles E. Maddry: An Autobiography, which began with his boyhood on an Orange County farm and his walk to the Canada school in Chapel Hill, where he cut wood to pay his tuition. Phillips Russell reviewed it in the paper. People: Phillips Russell Place: First Baptist Church, HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 9, 1955, p. 2
  26. Opponents of auto racing form the Orange County Anti-Racing Association About 100 people at a mass meeting at the Gospel Baptist Tabernacle on Orange Grove Road organized the association, the outgrowth of a campaign the Rev. W. I. Conway began when a jalopy race track was built near his church; the track drew an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 people to its first race the next day. On May 7 Conway and the Rev. Charles E. Maddry took the matter to the county commissioners, who were told by County Attorney Paul Ransom that they could not tax, limit or ban the races without special legislation. People: Charles Edward Maddry Place: Gospel Baptist Tabernacle, Orange Grove Road · Also named: W. I. Conway, Paul RansomThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 10, 1956, p. 8
  27. Charles E. Maddry resigns the First Baptist pulpit in Hillsborough Dr. Charles E. Maddry, former executive secretary of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, told his congregation he would leave the pastorate of Hillsborough's First Baptist Church on April 10, his 81st birthday, saying harmony had been restored and he needed time to finish a history of the Foreign Mission Board and a life of Shubael Stearns. He had come back six years earlier for a three-month interim after a bitter split in the church and stayed to lead the building of an education wing. Place: First Baptist Church, HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 10, 1957, p. 1
  28. The Rev. Anderson Whitted, Hillsboro's oldest citizen, dies The Rev. Anderson Whitted, a Black minister born near Hillsboro in 1865, died at 91. The son of a schoolteacher, he taught school for 18 years, worked as a plasterer and brick contractor, and preached for 53 years, for half a century as pastor of three Primitive Baptist churches; he was buried at New Hope Baptist Church. People: Charles Edward Maddry Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Anderson WhittedSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 8, 1957, p. 1
  29. Mars Hill Baptist Church marks its 125th anniversary and burns its parsonage mortgage About 400 members, former members and friends came to Mars Hill Baptist Church for a day of services marking 125 years since its founding in 1834. Former pastor Charles E. Maddry preached in the morning, and after the afternoon service the congregation gathered on the parsonage lawn while the pastor and a former pastor burned the paid-off parsonage mortgage. People: Charles Edward Maddry Place: Mars Hill Baptist Church, north of HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 2, 1959, p. 1
  30. Charles E. Maddry writes a history of Mount Moriah Baptist Church Charles Edward Maddry wrote a history of Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Orange County; it survives in his papers at UNC. Place: Orange County · Also mentions: Mount Moriah Baptist ChurchSearch the index · UNC Libraries: Charles Edward Maddry Papers, 1903-1960
  31. Charles E. Maddry's funeral is held at Hillsborough Baptist Church Charles E. Maddry, pastor of the church at the start and end of his fifty-three-year ministry and former head of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, died on September 17 and was buried at Richmond after a funeral in the Hillsborough church. Place: First Baptist Church, HillsboroughSearch the index · Pauline O. Lloyd and Allen A. Lloyd, History of the Churches of Hillsborough, N.C., ca. 1766-1962 (1963), scan p. 37

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By Charles Edward Maddry

History of the First Baptist Church of Hillsboro, North Carolina

Maddry, Charles Edward, 1876-1962 · 1953 · Edwards & Broughton

Charles Edward Maddry's 31-page history of the First Baptist Church of Hillsborough, printed in Raleigh by Edwards & Broughton in 1953 with illustrations and portraits. Maddry (1876-1962) was a Baptist minister.

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Charles Edward Maddry papers, 1903-1960.

Maddry, Charles Edward, 1876-1962 · 1903

Forty seven items dated 1903 to 1960 from Charles Edward Maddry (1876-1962), in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3593. Topics include the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, church buildings in the state, and the church history of Orange County, with Mount Moriah Church in Orange County named directly. Josephus Daniels also appears among the subjects.

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[Letter to the editor of Chapel Hill news]

Turner, C. D. · 1906 · C.D. Turner?

A letter to the editor of the Chapel Hill News, printed in 1906, in which C. D. Turner defends Charles Maddry against the charge that he misappropriated school funds while serving as superintendent of schools for Orange County. Turner signs himself a candidate for clerk of Superior Court and dates the letter October 3, 1906.

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