Blessed are the Dead That Die in the Lord: 14 Old Regular Baptist Preachers In Southeastern Kentucky or Lee County or Wise County Virginia

By Lillian Broughton Creech and Fredwyn Creech Schwendeman

Biographies of 14 Old Regular Baptist Preachers in Southeastern Kentucky and Virginia. Names; Blair, Boggs, Caudill, Combs, Creech, Day, Dixon, Fields, McKnight, Maggard, Riggs, Sturgill

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Aug 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9781387160945

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Blessed are the Dead That Die in the Lord: 14 Old Regular Baptist Preachers In Southeastern Kentucky or Lee County or Wise County Virginia

Blessed Are the Dead That Die in the Lord

Biographies

of

14 Old Regular Baptist Preachers

In  Southeastern Kentucky

Or

Lee County or Wise County, Virginia

By

Lillian Broughton Creech

and

Fredwyn Creech Schwendeman

All rights reserved

Permission to reproduce

in any form must be

secured from the author

Please direct all correspondence to:

Mrs. Fredwyn Schwendeman

465 Morris Road

Winchester, Kentucky 40391

Privately published by the author

2017

Printed in the United States of America

Blessed Are the Dead That Die in the Lord

Prologue

Lillian Broughton Creech was a genealogist and recognized authority on families in Southeastern Kentucky.  When Mary Showalter of Nicholasville, KY, and her brother, Bob Creech, of Sulphur, LA, presented Mrs. Creech with a group picture of 14 preachers, Lillian agreed to help them learn more about each of the men.  Mrs. Creech is now deceased, and this was one of her last projects.  As in all her genealogical research her daughter, Fredwyn Creech Schwendeman, assisted and edited.

The Special Collections and Archives at Hutchins Library, Berea College,  Berea, KY, has collected 20 manuscript boxes of information about various Baptist Church groups. They have minutes of 23 Old Regular Baptist Associations, 50 Primitive Baptist Associations, 11 United Baptist Associations, one Old School Baptist group, and one Predestination Baptist group.

The differences among these Baptist groups are sometimes minor, but many are major. They differ on such doctrines as predestination, foot washing, styles of clothing, length of hair, music, indoor vs. outdoor baptism, and grape juice vs. fermented wine.

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to explain why a composite was made sometime after 1940 of 14 Old Regular Baptist Preachers. The picture bears no date or explanation except for names of the men and a caption declaring, Blessed are the Dead that Die in the Lord. This project was undertaken to learn more about these estimable subjects. All of the men were preachers in rural or small town communities. Little is known or remembered