Elder Claude Hartsel Cayce

1891-1945



Elder C. Hartsel Cayce, Thornton, Arkansas, was born in Moscow, Ky., on June 1, 1891, the oldest child of Elder S. F. and Flora Magdalene Cayce. He felt to be a condemned sinner at the tender age of eight, and received deliverance, and was enabled to rejoice in a Savior’s love in 1885, at the age of fourteen. He united with the Primitive Baptists at Greenfield, Tenn on the second Sunday in August, 1889. He was liberated to speak in public in October 1890, and was ordained by authority of the church at Ralston, Tenn., in December 1896. He became connected with his father’s paper, the Primitive Baptist, in 1886, and became its editor at his father’s death in 1905, and remained its editor until death called him home in November, 1945.

Elder Cayce was married to Miss Lollie Lawler, of Brownsboro, Ala., and to this union were born five children. He was a very outstanding minister and editor, and his influence will live on for generations to come (from Primitive Baptist Ministers compiled by Miss Emma West 1973).

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