Elder Charles H. Fredenburg was born in Walla walla, Washington, April 17, 1866.   Later, his parents moved to Oregon and settled in the Rogue River Valley, near Medford.   There, at the age of nineteen, Brother Charles Fredenburg, was baptized into the First Baptist Church of Medford, on July 4th, 1885, the first person to be baptized into that church.

     He had been present at the organization of that church, which was then a Landmark Baptist Church.   His parents lived and died, members of that same church.

     Brother Charles Fredenburg later moved to North Central Oregon, where he united with the Fossil Baptist Church, Fossil, Oregon.   About this time he felt called to preach the gospel, and he preached his first sermon in Hoover Creek school house on November 20, 1889.

     In 1893, C. H. Fredenburg left for Kentucky, to enter the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville, and he continued in that school for three years, receiving a Graduate in Theology diploma.

     During his first year in school, he had in some of his classes, a fellow student by the name of Ruben Y. Blalock, who had arrived from the state of Washington, and they became close friends.   R. Y. Blalock left at the end of one year, to return to Washington and Oregon, where in later years, they worked together, and were good friends, to the end of their days.

     After finishing the seminary, Brother Fredenburg served a year as missionary in Missouri, for the North Missouri Baptist Association, following which he pastored three churches there:   Friendship Baptist Church, Flat Baptist Church, and Juniper Flat Baptist Church.

     He then returned to Oregon, where he entered the Landmark Baptist Academy at Grass Valley, and studied for one and a half years.

     During Brother Fredenburg's long ministry, he pastored at various times:   the Mitchell, Sams Valley, Antioch, Eagle Point, Medford and Talent, Baptist churches.   He also held meetings in many parts of the state, and in later years, traveled, and preached, in many parts of Oregon, California, and Idaho.

     When I was a boy, I always remembered Brother Fredenburg for his long, "handlebar" moustache, but in later years, as his hair turned white, he let his beard grow long, and that is the way so many people remember him.

     Brother Fredenburg loved the Word of God, and had committed a large part of it to memory:   all the New Testament, all of Genesis, all the Psalms, and most of the prophetic books.   He would often stand up to preach, without opening his Bible, quote a whole chapter of scripture, and then preach upon it.   Whenever a text was mentioned, he could immediately, without opening his Bible, give you chapter and verse.

     Elder C. H. Fredenburg was a great defender of the faith, a strict believer in Landmark Baptist principles.

     During his lifetime, he authored, and published, several small books on the subject of Baptist Doctrine.   He also wrote a history of the Middle Oregon Baptist Association, which was published in the form of a small book.

     The last few years of Brother Fredenburg's life were spent in Idaho, where he was at last confined to a nursing home, and there, at Nampa, Idaho, he passed away.   He had never married, so he had no family to remember him, but he was a dearly loved member of God's family, and is remembered and appreciated by many of us today.

     ~~J. R. Blalock

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