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FROM THE BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF PRIMITIVE OR OLD SCHOOL BAPTIST MINISTERS BY DAVID MONTGOMERY AND MARK GREEN:
ELDER SILAS JAMES BUCHANAN DALLAS
WRITTEN BY SARAH DALLAS COX:
Elder Dallas was born on January 5, 1913 and passed from this life on May 5, 1980 The son of Elder J.B. and Ella Aldredge Dallas, born and raised in and around Danville Va. He was youngest of two sons the other named Paul thus theSilas was added to his name by his grandmother who said there couldn't be a Paul and not a Silas. He was better known as S. J.B to his brethren after he started preaching.
He joined the Danville Church in 1932 and was baptized by the pastor, Elder JR Wilson. He felt the calling of the Lord to preach and felt the Lord must surely have made a mistake for he felt his brother had much more memory andwas never at a fail for words. He was liberated to preach in 1934 and the tears flowed with each attempt. He was very humble of spirit and felt a deep love and desire to serve his Lord and the church. He was ordained in January 1936 and was an active member of Danville Church until 1943.
He married Ruby Caughron of High Point NC on December 22, 1934. In 1940 theirfirst daughter was born. At two days old the child had a brain hemorrhage and colitis. The child had to have two blood transfusions and by the grace of God was spared. She joined the PB church at age fourteen.
Elder Dallas traveled some during his early years and on one of these travels he went to northern Alabama. He felt the leading of the spirit to move to this part of the country. He packed up his little family and moved. He was soon called to pastor Bethlehem PB Church, Gallant, Alabama, where he and his wife moved their membership. During the four years he lived there he served as pastor to four churches in the Mt Zion Association.
In early 1947 he visited the brethren in south Alabama--the Choctawhatchee Association. Once again feeling the leadership of the spirit he moved his little family to Headland AL in September 1947. He was soon called to pastor LittleVine PB Church, Dothan Al., where he and wife placed their membership. In
1948 their second daughter was born. In 1955 the Lord blessed them with another child, the son they so much wanted. He joined the church when he was eleven, just a few weeks after Ruby's death in 1967. During a visit to GA in 1968 he met and married Nora Barton the widow of Elder E. Barton. In February 1980 he was diagnosed with cancer and died at home May 5, 1980. |
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