Charles Alderton

FROM THE BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY OF PRIMITIVE OR OLD SCHOOL BAPTIST MINISTERS BY DAVID MONTGOMERY AND MARK GREEN: ELDER CHARLES W. ALDERTON WRITTEN BY ELDER RAYMOND PRESSLEY: This is in memory of our beloved pastor and dear brother servant in the ministry, Elder Charles W. Alderton, who died Saturday, May 20, 1978 at age 69, in an automobile accident near Luray Virginia. He was born July 4, 1908, the son of Kirk and Dora Alderton. He was married June 20, 1929 to Virginia Soper. They had two children, Charles, Jr., and Virginia May Alderton. Sister Virginia died December 27, 1957 and he later married Retha Sue Caudill. They had two children, John W., and Retha Alice Alderton. Brother Charles was ordained into the ministry on July 19, 1952 and for twenty-six years he faithfully fulfilled that office, serving several different churches during that period.