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Central Missionary Baptist Church
(Dixon Chapel)
Jenkins, Letcher, Kentucky
Est. 1948-1949
Page Compiled by Alma E Harings
The church was organized March 20, 1948, in the home of Leslie Ellis, with eleven members present. The church building was completed and on New Year's Eve, 1949, the first service was held in the church
The church was first called Dixon Chapel of the Rural Missionary Baptist Church. J. E. Dixon was the first pastor. Viola Fleming was elected clerk and Edna Daniels was treasurer.
Caption: Rev. J. E. Dixon baptising a man in a local river.
Viola Fleming was elected clerk and Edna Daniels was treasurer. Hugh Ellis held associate pastor for ten years, after J. E. Dixon became ill. Carl Layne was chosen pastor. Next in line was Ray Hodges of Nicklesville, Virginia, who served for only one year.
Nick Jurick served two years as pastor; Elmer Hughes of Clintwood, Virginia served approximately six years, and Lee Llewellyn of Florida for only one year.
The present pastor of the church is Archie Conn of Calvary College, Letcher, Kentucky. He is attending Pikeville College working for a degree in teaching and teaching ministry.
The church now has some 50 members and has been blessed with many souls saved and working toward the eternal goal of heaven.
The church helps sponsor two full time missionaries — Mary Lou Weber of New York and JoAnn Dearhart of Pennsylvania. Both now reside in the Jenkins area. They work with Bible clubs. The church also helps sponsor one foreign missionary, Mike Pepper.
List of deacons are: Ray Pritchard, Leslie Ellis, George Bevins, Wilmer Yonts, Curtis Elswick and Ervin Elswi
About My Great Grandfather Rev. John Edward Dickson
(1874-1967)
Alma E Dailey-Harings ( "Libby")
Email: aharings@cox.net
The first child of William Thomas Dickson and Elizabeth Canzada Kilgore was a son, John Edward, born 3 May 1874 in the Altamont area of Grundy County, Tennessee.
He no doubt led a rough and tumble life with the conflict of the times within the free coal miners, convict miners and the post Civil War recovery era. John got little schooling. He attended a 10 nights writing school and three months regular school and remembered getting as far as "Baker" in the old Webster, Blue Back Speller.
He entered the coal mines at 12 years of age in 1886, working for the Dade Coal Company in Coal City, Dade County, Georgia for 50 cents per shift. When his family came back to Franklin County, Tennessee, John Edward went to his mothers old home area of Tracy City in Grundy County and worked for the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company for the next 18 years. His only break was during the big strike of 1895 when he went to Dayton, Rhea County, Tennessee to work for about a year.
Ed's father, William Thomas Dickson was a mine foreman for the iron mines of Dade Coal Company in northwest Georgia. Wm. T. supervised the work of convicts in the mine and was paid $1.75 per shift. The convicts worked for their board and clothes. If they loaded more than their allotment, they were paid 25 cents per car load.
Small oil lamps were used when Ed worked in the mines underground for light. This type lamp smoked a great deal. Ed said he could hardly see 20 inches ahead of himself while he drove the mule to carry the ore out of the mine. This lamp resembled a miniature coffee pot. Water was pumped from the mine by steam driven pumps. When Ed worked in Coal City, Georgia, he loaded coal for $2.50 per shift. Ed joined the United Mine Workers of America Union in 1898 and pay and working conditions improved considerably after that.
In 1903, he returned to northwest Georgia (about that time his mother had gotten deathly ill) where he worked for the Pittsburg Durham Coal and Coke company mining coal out of Lookout Mountain.
On 16 December 1908, he married (my great grandmother) the beautifulSallie Mae Taylor in Trenton, Dade County, Georgia. Sallie was born 10 May 1890 at Trenton to Zachariah Taylor and Nancy Elizabeth "Nannie" Osborn.
Zachariah F. Taylor was born in Cobb County, Georgia, 14 February 1840. He had been a devout member of the Baptist Church into which Ed became a lay minister. No doubt Zach had a positive and profound influence on his young son-in-law.
While still in the Trenton area of Dade county, Sallie and Ed Dickson started their family and then moved "on to Tennessee" ; on 4 July 1917 they arrived in Wise, Virginia. Ed had been a lay minister since 1916, but in 1918 he was ordained a minister by the Missionary Baptist Church in Wise, Wise County, Virginia. Along, with his family, nothing was more important than his ministry. He was the pastor at churches in Mary Chapel, Coeburn, Ball Run, Banner view, Hurricane, Mud Town and many other churches. He led many people to be Christians and baptized them in lakes and rivers of the area. He was active in the ministry as long as he was able to attend.
Ed worked a couple of years for Gladeville Coal Company in Wise and from 1919 to 1920 operated Hix Orchards at Wise. In late 1920, Ed moved his family to Coeburn VA where he preached and clerked for Charlie Gillispies's store. He also spent a couple- of years as a clerk for Racket Stores and a couple more years as a monument salesman. Beginning in 1934, Ed went back into the mines of the area working in the drift and shallow slopes. He also was in the grocery business at Lick Fork, Camp Creek and Snowball Hollow. In 1944, he retired from mining after a stretch in Snowball Hollow.
Ed and Sallies union produced seven children all of whom survived to adulthood. Sallie Mae had aged 57 years when she passed away in Jenkins Ky on Christmas Day of 1947.
In 1953, John Edward married Eura Davis and they lived a comfortable life in the Clintwood area. John Edward died 14 December 1967 at Wise, Virginia at the age of 93 years and was buried 17 December 1967 at Stanley Cemetery at Longs Fork in Clintwood, VA beside his first wife Sallie Mae.
Sources:
The History of Jenkins, Kentucky
published by The Jenkins Area Jaycees
Jenkins, Kentucky 1973
Graciously Extracted & Shared by Bill Thayer
Related URL: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Kentucky/Letcher/Jenkins/_Texts/HJK/E*.html
Early Dixon Family Research by
Bobby Henson of Birmingham, Alabama
Email: bhenson@bellsouth.net
Related Dixon Family History URL: http://freepages.nostalgia.rootsweb.com/~grundyconnections/home.html
Photos of JE & Sallie Mae Dixon & Other Related Dixon Family History Research Contributed by
Alma Elizabeth Dailey-Harings
Email: aharings@cox.net
About....My name is Alma E. Dailey-Harings(aka Libby) and I am the daughter of the
beautiful PeggyJoyce Sanders of Jenkins, Kentucky. I've created a website
in the interest of tracking and documenting my mother's family history and to
preserve those related histories for posterity. This genealogy is currently a
work in progress and is based on both the lineal and collateral lines of my
maternal grand parents, Cecil S. Sanders of Grundy County TN and Alma
Virginia Dixon of Wise Co VA. To quickly view my mother's pedigree chart,
click here
Page Compiled by Alma Elizabeth Dailey-Harings
Along My Sanders & Dickson Family Lines
Homepage URL: http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/weets44
Email: aharings@cox.net
Surnames :
Sanders, Dickson, Cope, Kilgore, Bolin, Bates, Osburn, Layne, Taylor, Thompson, Ellis,
Farmer, Fleming, Fults, Roberts, Hale, Weaver, Whitt......