Submitted by Gail Lowery ( From actual Church Records )
Rev William Wilkie, Jr. ( 1776 - 1784 )
Wilkie, Elder William is a native of Rutherford county, N. C. born about 1784, and a brother of George Wilkie. Was a member of Big Spring Church , and appointed a delegate to the Broad River Association in 1827. the same year the Big Spring Church was dismissed to aid the formation of the Catawba River Association, and ELder Wilkie became a member of that body. We have no other information from minute concerning him. We know that he became very deaf many years before his death, and in consequence of which, he seldom preached, and probably never did any regular ministerial work for any of the Churches, although, we know he did preach sometimes with much ability, and great satisfaction to his hearers. He was what might be termed a Hyper Calvinist. A man of great reasoning powers, and logical in his conclusions.
Sketches, Historical and Biographical, of the Broad River and King's Mountain Baptist Associations, from 1800 to 1882. by: John R. Logan
Page: 549 - 550
It is signed by Eld. William Wilkie