Beverly Francis Carradine (April 4, 1848 – April 22, 1931) was an American Methodist minister and a leading evangelist for the holiness movement.Synan, Vinson. Holiness-Pentecostal Tradition, second edition (1997) Wm. Eerdmans Publishing Company, pg. 62 He was a productive author, writing primarily on the subject of sanctification.Balmer, Randell. The Encyclopedia of Evangelism. (2002) Westminster John Knox Press The patriarch of the Carradine family, he was the grandfather of actor John Carradine and great-grandfather of actors David, Keith, and Robert Carradine.

Early life Beverly Carradine was born on April 4, 1848, on Altamont Plantation in Yazoo County, Mississippi.Beverly Carradine, Passport Application (New York, NY: June 28, 1890). Source Citation: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Washington D.C.; Passport Applications, 1795–1905; ARC Identifier 566612 / MLR Number A1 508; NARA Series: M1372; Roll #356. Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S. Passport Applications, 1795–1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007. Carradine was the sixth of nine children, and fourth son of Mary Caroline Hewitt Carradine (born June 5, 1819, in Washington, D.C.; died 1881 in Yazoo City, Mississippi) and Henry Francis Carradine (born June 7, 1808, in Yazoo City, Mississippi; died March 8, 1854), a planter.Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Yazoo, Mississippi; Roll: M432_382; Page: 519A; Image: 1050. Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. Original data: Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls). The Carradine family moved to Yazoo City in 1852.

In 1865, Carradine, aged 16, enlisted in Wood's Regiment in the Confederate Cavalry in Mississippi, and served until the end of the American Civil War.Source Citation: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Confederate Organizations, compiled 1903–1927, documenting the period 1861–1865; Catalog ID: 586957; Record Group #: 109; Roll #: 40. Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861–1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861–1865 provided by Fold3 © In May 1865, he was mustered out with the 6th Cavalry Regiment Mississippi.Source Information: Historical Data Systems, comp.. American Civil War Soldiers [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: Data compiled by Historical Data Systems of Kingston, MA

Carradine graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1867. Later he studied pharmacy and worked as a clerk and bookkeeper in a store.

Career Carradine "prayed through" on July 12, 1874, and then he told his wife, "Laura, I’m not going to go to Hell after all." He was licensed to preach in October 1874 and became a pastor in Mississippi and New Orleans.Lloyd, James B. Lives of Mississippi Authors 1817–1967. (1981)University of Mississippi Press, pg. 74 He was ordained a Methodist elder in 1878.

On June 1, 1889, Carradine received the "blessing of sanctification" in his study in the parsonage at 35 Polyminca Street, New Orleans. His third book, Sanctification, was published the next year. Many of his subsequent books were centered on the concept of sanctification. He published at least 26 books.Catalogue of Beta Theta Pi, (1917) Edited and Published by James T. Brown

He also wrote about his opposition to the Louisiana lottery, making an analogy between it and slavery. The New York Times reported that his early opposition as a prominent New Orleans pastor helped end the lottery in that state.Thomas-Wright Russell, "DEATH LIST OF A DAY", April 24, 1901; accessed August 14, 2010.Vale of Tears. New Essays on Religion and Reconstruction. Edited by Edward J. Blum and W. Scott Poole. (2005) Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press.

Death Carradine died on April 22, 1931, in Western Springs, Illinois, aged 83.Source Information: Ancestry.com. Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916–1947 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. FHL Film Number: 1653756. He was buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Personal life Although a prolific author, Carradine wrote little about himself and his family, not even in his autobiographical Pastoral Sketches.Time and Location Line of the Life of Rev. Beverly Carradine, Gene A. Long, Holiness Data Ministry (2475)

Carradine was married twice, and had at least nine children. On July 3, 1869,Source Information: Hunting For Bears, comp.. Mississippi Marriages, 1776–1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Carradine married Laura Green Reid (born 1851 in Washington, D.C.; died in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1882), in Yazoo, Mississippi. They had five children: Ernest Carradine (b. ? - died 1880); William Reed Carradine (1872–1909), a correspondent for the Associated Press, and the father of actor John Carradine,Turley, Briane. A Wheel Within a Wheel. (1999) Mercier university Press and the grandfather of actors David, Keith and Robert Carradine; Maude Virginia Carradine Westbrook (born 1874 - died 1956); Guy Carradine (1879–1885); and Lula (1880–1946). Laura died in 1882 at the age of 30.

On August 1, 1883, Carradine married Modesta A.M. Burke (born March 16, 1861, in New Orleans, Louisiana; died April 6, 1924, in Chicago, Illinois) in New Orleans, Louisiana.Source Information: Ancestry.com. New Orleans, Louisiana, Marriage Records Index, 1831–1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2002. Original data: State of Louisiana, Secretary of State, Division of Archives, Records Management, and History. Vital Records Indices. Baton Rouge, LA, USA. Source Citation: Vol. 10, pg. 85. Their four children were: Burke Carradine (1887–1932); Victoria Carradine (born 1889); Glendy Carradine (born 1890); and Josephine (born 1891).

Bibliography Sanctification (1891) A Journey to Palestine (1892) The Second Blessing in Symbol (1893) The Old Man (1896) Sanctified Life (1897) The Better Way (1899) Soul Help (1900) Bible Characters (1907) People I Have Met (1910) Graphic Scenes (1911) Yazoo Stories (1911) Revival Incidents (1913) "Mississippi Stories"

References

Further reading Long, Gene. Beverly Carradine Prince of Holiness Writers (Allegheny Publications, 2003) Thornton, Wallace, Jr. Lightning from the Past: Camp Meeting Sermons by Early Twentieth-Century Holiness Revivalists (Schmul Publishing)

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