Benton Co., AR - Biographies - Rev. John Maddox

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Rev. John Maddox, presiding elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
Rogers, Ark., was born in Illinois in 1836, and is a son of Lewis and 
Elizabeth (Hewitt) Maddox, who were born in Kentucky and Ohio, 
respectively. They were married in the latter State. and afterward 
moved to Illinois, thence to Indiana, locating near Terre Haute. The 
father was a farmer, and died October 22, 1877, the mother's death 
occurring November 20, 1887. They were the parents of three children. 
Rev. John H. Maddox being the only one now living. The eldest one, 
William, was a physician, and died at the age of forty-one years; the 
youngest died in infancy. The subject of this sketch was educated in 
the schools of Indiana, and in 1859 joined the Indiana Conference of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, located after a few years, and 
remained a local elder of that church until 1882, when he moved to 
Kansas. Here he resided until May, 1884, [p.866] when he came to 
Arkansas, and in the spring of 1885 joined the Arkansas Conference, 
and was appointed pastor at Rogers, At the annual conference held at 
Little Rock, Ark., in February, 1888, he was appointed presiding elder 
of Rogers District, which position he is ably filling at the present 
time. Imperfect health hindered him for a number of years from 
devoting his time to the itinerant ministry. He was married in 
Illinois, on the 21st of February, 1867, to Miss Kate Woodruff, who 
was born in Ohio in 1832. Mr. Maddox is a Republican and a strong 
advocate of the cause of temperance, with which party he is likely to 
affiliate in the future.