BIOGRAPHY: Pleasant Daniel Gold

This able minister must have meant a great deal to the Primitive Baptists of the Southeastern United States because many families named their male children Pleasant Daniel or P. D. G. Elder Gold, the son of Milton and Martha (Fortune) Gold, was born in the present Cleveland County, North Carolina on March 25, 1833. On January 22, 1863, Miss Julia Pipkin, daughter of Willis Pipkin of Lenoir County, became the bride of Pleasant Daniel Gold. Many churches in the Kehukee Association called Elder Gold as their pastor and he faithfully served for a number years. Elder Gold was the editor of Zion's Landmark, a Primitive Baptist periodical which is still in print today. Elder Sylvester Hassell in History of the Church of God wrote prolifically about the ministerial life of Brother Gold. Brother Gold passed from this life near Mebane, North Carolina on June 7, 1920. He was preceded in death by his wife, Julia, on March 22, 1913.