Rev. Jesse B. Lindley,
Pastor of Glendale Baptist Church
Story furnished by
Clarence Crocker
Rev. Jesse B. Lindley
and his family lived on their farm and home place which
faced Highway 29 about 8 miles north of Cowpens. In
addition to his Ministry, he owned and operated a peach
orchard along with some cattle. He also operated a small
store and did barbering on the side. He was the son of
William Sidney and Ira Alverson Lindley. He was a
veteran of WW1 and a Mason.
He served as Pastor of
the Glendale Baptist Church
some 5 years from 1941 through 1944. He was well
educated and brought messages of real interest and
explained the scriptures in great depth. He was more of
a teacher than a forceful preacher. Though he was loved
and appreciated as God’s servant, unfortunately, his
ministry at Glendale was not as fruitful as all had
hoped it to be. Perhaps the stress of the war played a
huge part in the period in which he served as Pastor as
many sons and husbands were called up in the
draft.
Excerpts from the
obituary of Rev. Jesse B. Lindley, published May 6,
1965; “Rev. Jesse B Lindley, a retired minister of Route
4, Macedonia community, died in the Memorial Hospital,
Charlotte, N.C. after a brief illness. He was a graduate
of Furman University, Southern Baptist Seminary and a
member of the Macedonia Baptist Church at the time of
his death. Rev. Lindley was former Pastor of Daveyton
Baptist Church, Greenville County; High Point, Glendale
and Mountain View Baptist Churches, all in Spartanburg
County.
Survivors were; his
wife, Mrs. Daisy McCauley Lindley; daughters, Mrs. Ida
Dell Cantrell, Greenville, Mrs. Anna Bell Whitson,
Lancaster, Mrs. Daisy Louise Lemons, Mrs. Willie Jean
Humphries, Miss Carol Lee and Miss Jessie Elizabeth
Lindley, Gaffney; brothers, W.W. and S.F. Lindley,
Pelzer; sisters, Mrs. H.D. Candler, Mrs. Teague, Mrs. R.
P. Bryson, Pelzer; 13 grandchildren.
Services to be held at
Macedonia Baptist Church with interment following in the
Frederick Memorial Gardens in Gaffney, S. C. with
Masonic rites.”
Excerpts from the
obituary of Mrs. Jessie Lindley published Saturday
November 29, 2003; “Mrs. Daisy Dell McCauley Lindley,
101, died November 28, 2003 at her residence. She was
the daughter of the late William Henry McCauley and the
late Anna Robert Fowler McCauley.
She was the owner and
operator of the Lindley Store. She was a member of the
Macedonia Baptist Church, a graduate of North Greenville
College and Draughn’s Business College. Survivors were;
daughters and their husbands, Ida Dell and Virgil
Cantrell, Sr., Anna Bell and Cecil Whitson, Sr., Daisy
Louise and Jodean Lemmons, Sr., Willie Jean and Ted
Humphries, Carol Len and Charles Holcombe and Jessie
Elizabeth and Jeff Blanton, Sr.; 24 grandchildren, 55
great grandchildren, 11 great- great grandchildren and 1
great-great-great grandchild.”
Funeral Services to be
held in the Macedonia Baptist Church with interment
following in the Frederick Memorial Gardens .
Spartanburg Herald/Journal
obituaries courtesy of the Spartanburg County
Library.
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