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Presiding Elder. A station preacher was in Pittsboro, Oscar Brent, and then come Rev. R. S. Webb. At the commencement of the war between the North and the South, he joined the Southern Army and went as a chaplain with the Chatham Rifles that went out from Pittsboro. Shockley D. Adams was the circuit rider and went from there to Carthage in 1862, then come H. H. Gibbons, who was there until 1866.
Richard Webb, the station preacher in Pittsboro, would come out in the country and help in protracted meetings. He was with H. H. Gibbons at Mt. Zion in a meeting that was one to be remembered. There was a great ingathering of many souls, young and old. One old man and his wife, Mr. David Johnson and wife, went to the alter and knelt side by side; both were converted and joined the church. They lived many years after and both died in the faith.
No preacher was more beloved. He would not miss shaking hands with every child; little children would crowd around him and, many times, one would have one hand and another the other hand. He believed in the old time way of a good warm handshake. No one that has never tried it can know the good it has done some poor child, girl or boy, that has but few kind or
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loving words. Try it, reader, and note the change of the face, and you will not then say, there is no good in a handshake. A few kind words has won a poor convict that repented and lived true. Remember I am telling what has proven true not so many years ago and not so very far away.
J. B. Martin served four years. Then came C. C. Dodson, a humble good man, who spent but two years. Then R. T. N. Stephenson served three years. The conference was divided. He went to the Western Conference. Then came Roberson. He got crippled and W. W. Rose was sent here to fill out the year. He was in charge four years, then came J. Sanford, who was on the circuit two years and moved from there to Siler City, at which place he was taken ill in the pulpit while on his knees and died. Then came V. A. Royal for four years. Then James H. Frizzelle. Next J. J. Boone, who served four years and did well. Then came Charles M. Lance, who is now serving his fourth this 1928. May God go with him where ever he goes from the Pittsboro Circuit, is the prayer of many for himself and all his family, especially the writer.
