from Biographical Sketches of Kentucky – Ohio County

Elder David J. K. Maddox, Ohio County, was born May 10, 1836, on the place where he now resides near Rockport.  His father, John Maddox, Jr., was born December 23, 1796, in Woodford County, Kentucky.  He was a licentiated and great revivalist in the Baptist Church, extensively known, and died at this place June 10, 1876; he lost six slaves by the emancipation; he was the son of John Maddox, Sr., of Culpeper County, Virginia, who removed to Kentucky when a young man; he was a soldier in the Revolution.  He married Eleanor Aston; was an active Baptist, and died in Hamilton, Kentucky, in 1845, aged about eighty years.  John Maddox, Jr., married Amelia B., daughter of Robert and Charlotte (Barnes) Render, of Ohio County; she died in 1875, at the age of seventy-five years.  Their union was blessed by the birth of Mary B. (Rowe), Eleanor A. (Taylor), Azariah P., Elizabeth R. (Casebier), Susanna H. (Stroud), Paulina F. (Baker), Joseph L. R., David J. K., Charlotte J. (Tichenor), and Sarah C. (Brown).  All were married and all were Baptists.  In youth, Elder Maddox had only such educational advantages as the schools of the county afforded, but by close application, laboring in the daytime, studying at night, preaching on Sabbath, he had acquired a large fund of information on ecclesiastical and literary subjects.  March 9, 1856, he married Sallie A., daughter of Collier and Ann Tichenor, of Ohio County, born November 3, 1834.  To their union have been born James E., John B., Anna B., Collier T., David L., Edgar D., Jared M., William N., Albert L., Caperton C., Susan A. C., and Martha E.  At the age of ten years, Elder Maddox joined the Missionary Baptist Church; was licensed to preach in 1859; ordained to the full work of the ministry in 1860, and  has served as pastor of Rochester, West Providence (sixteen years), Pond Run, Paradise, Mt. Carmel, Beaver Dam, Central City, Woodward’s Valley and West Point.  He was moderator of the Gasper River Association for seven years, and during the time of his ministry has baptized about 800 and married about 300 couples.  Elder Maddox owns and cultivates the old family manor consisting of about 300 acres of productive and well-improved land.  He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, also of the G. T.; was chaplain of the State Grange, and politically a Democrat.