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Charles Blufred Hollis

Brother Hollis was born in Texas on December 9, 1843 and served as a private during the Civil War. He married Samantha Peters in April of 1866 and entered the ministry two years later, being ordained by the Sand Prairie church of Madison County, Texas.

In 1887 Brother Hollis moved to Bossier Parish and spent four years there as pastor of Rocky Mount church and of near by country churches. Beginning in 1891, Rev. Hollis served as a half-time pastor at New Friendship and at Homer. He also served Colquitt, Summerfield and Blackburn while living at Old Haynesville.

He was pastor of Homer First Baptist from December 1891 to 1893. Brother Hollis stayed in the area for seven years and built a parsonage at New Friendship. In 1900 the Hollis family moved to Keatchie and he soon became a state missionary, serving under the State Mission Board and working mostly in north Louisiana. Some years later he was a missionary for the Caddo Association.

Brother Hollis was one of the organizers of the Baptist Church in Vivian and at Ivan in Bossier parish and lent his carpentry skills to the erection of the church building in Vivian. He was known as a mentor to young preachers, counseling them and teaching them and as a clear, logical preacher. He always preferred to serve young or struggling churches, strengthening them as missionary or as pastor.

Brother Hollis never quite recovered from a severe bout with the flu in 1918 and died on March 15, 1925. His children were David P. Mattie Hollis Houston, Lula, Joseph L. and Mrs. W. J. Hollis Jones. 23

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