Bostick, Rev. W. M., was born in Richmond Co., N. C.; attended an academy in Carthage at eighteen; was baptized by Rev. A. D. Blackwood in August, 1853

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Daily Baptist Encyclopedia Post by Jim Curran

Bostick, Rev. W. M., was born in Richmond Co., N. C.; attended an academy in Carthage at eighteen; was baptized by Rev. A. D. Blackwood in August, 1853 ; read theology for two years with the Rev. Archibald McQueen, a Presbyterian min- ister ; was ordained by a Presbytery, (NOTE: to avoid any confusion by the way this was worded this was a Baptist ordination by Baptist preachers)consisting of Revs. Enoch Crutchfield, John Mercer, Nath. Rich- ardson, and F. M, Jordan, and has been, since 1871, the moderator of the Pee Dee Association. From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart