Beverly Carradine

Beverly Francis Carradine (April 4, 1848 – April 22, 1931) was an American Methodist minister and a leading evangelist for the holiness movement. He was a productive author, writing primarily on the subject of sanctification. 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. 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. 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. In May 1865, he was mustered out with the 6th Cavalry Regiment Mississippi.

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

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.

Death Carradine died on April 22, 1931, in Western Springs, Illinois, aged 83. He was buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Carradine was married twice, and had at least nine children. On July 3, 1869, 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, 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. Their four children were: Burke Carradine (1887–1932); Victoria Carradine (born 1889); Glendy Carradine (born 1890); and Josephine (born 1891).