Charles
Holder was a sacrificial, dedicated Gospel preacher who struggled through the American
economic depression to carry the Gospel to people in the Sequatchie Valley and
the surrounding areas. He preached for over fifty years but usually no
more than fifty miles from his home. Though he was born in
Tennessee, he was only in Nashville once, and that was to change trains. He
never spoke on a Christian College Lectureship. He never asked brethren
for any money for himself, except once when his house burned. He never owned a buggy
or automobile. He was determined to trust in the Lord to take care of him. He
established several congregations in twenty counties of the three states that touched the Sequatchie Valley: Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. Several people have thought that he was more like the Apostle Paul than anyone they knew. Charles and
his wife Mattie raised three good children and the Holders were well respected by the people who knew them.
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