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14 ORANGE CHURCH HISTORY Thomas Jefferson Gattis By permission of North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina Library at Chapel Hill Samuel Bryant Turrentine educated at the University of North Carolina, Vanderbilt University, and Columbia University. The brother of Minnie T. Blackwood, a longtime, highly active member of the congregation, Turrentine served as professor of Hebrew and New Testament Greek at Trinity College, now Duke University. He joined the North Carolina Conference in 1888and affiliated with the Western North Carolina Conference when that body was created in 1890. He went on to become president of Greensboro College in 1913, and served there as president emeritus and professor of Bible after his retirement in 1935. He then served as president emeritus and professor of Bible and special lecturer in Bible. Orange Church in the Early Twentieth Century Although much was going on in the denomination and the nation, Orange Methodist Church continued to grow. During these early days, many of its members were drawn from the immediate vicinity. Church membership rolls came to include many names still familiar to the congregation and the community such as Robson, Gillum, Hatch, Williams, Wilkins, Utly, Collier, Potts, Hogan, King, Gattis, Cole, Watson, Brockwell, Henderson, Pickett, Andrews, Byrd, Mallett [sic], Crabtree, Upchurch, Strain, Hutchins, Burroughs, Taylor, Perkins, Burch, Miner, Weaver, Pendergraph, Harrington, Raney, Wright, Douglas, Freeland, Blackwood, Cheek, Meachum, Strayhorn, Moore, Scott, Snipes, Maynor, Davis, Dyer, Flintiff, Maddry, Long, Craig, Sugg, Holland, Turrentine, Bishop, Whitt, and Pendergrass. Some descendants of these early members still worship with us. Many ofthese early members contributed substantially to the church's life and growth in the community. While Alexander Gattis, Sr., donated part of the land for the church, his son, Samuel, known affectionately as "Uncle" Sam, also contributed substantially to the church ministry. Sam Gattis led the congregational singing for many years, and he and his family often made up most ofthe choir. In the early years, an old-fashioned pump organ was used to accompany the singing. Eva Hogan Cates, Pearl Hogan May, and Margaret Burch Link were three of the organists. Orange Church legend has it that when a new minister would come to the charge, "Uncle" Sam would say, "Whenever you want to call on someone to lead in prayer, call on Jimmy Hutchins, and whenever you want any singing done, I'll look after that." When Rev. William P. Constable became pastor in 1910, "Uncle" Sam was heard to say, "I have been a steward in this Church now for nigh on sixty years. I am getting old now, and I want you to put someone younger in my place." Rev. Constable replied, "No, Brother Gattis, we are still going to keep you in harness for a long time yet." And Constable kept "Uncle" Sam working in the church until his death on March 26, 1914, at the age of 92. Church singing continued without "Uncle" Sam's enthusiastic leadership, and now the choir included more than Gattis's family members. Older members of the church recall that the 1918 era choir included Daisy Perkins, Margaret Burch Link, Mabel Freeland Maddry, Nellie Kelly,Ruth Collier, Malcolm Blackwood, Minnie Blackwood, Pearl Hogan May, Poidrous Hogan, Lonnie Hogan, Nellie Bishop McCauley, Knowlton Potts, and Emma Potts as members. One of the special anthems that "Miss" Ethel Hogan remembers most clearly was ''When My Soul Reaches Home." Rev. Constable, who was assigned to Orange Church and other congregations from 1910-1914,left Orange a few months after "Uncle"
Richard S. Webb (1865-1869) Roderick B. John (1883-1886) Oliver O. Ryder (1889-1890) Orange Methodist Ministers 1865-1901 John W Tillett (1869-1871) Joseph R. Griffith (1886-1887) Jonathan Sanford (1890-1892) FACING TOMORROW, UNDERSTANDING YESTERDAY 15 Joseph f. Renn (1871-1877) Rufus C. Beaman (1887-1888) John W Jenkins (1892-1895) M.H. Moore (1882-1883) Joseph B. Martin (1888-1889) Jacob H. McCracken (1897-1901) Notpictured: ThomasA. Stone.]. F. Heitman (1877-1882), Charles W Robinson (1895), Samuel T Moyle (1895-1896), William ]. Twilley (1896-1897) Bypermission of North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina Library at Chapel Hill
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