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B.F. McLendon or "Cyclone Mac" (1878 to 1935) was a famous evangelist from Bennettsville, SC and an author in the 1920's and had family that lived about 1.5 miles below the road from land that has been in my (Bryon R. Campbell) family for over 100 years. B.F. McLendon family member Lula Merritt McLendon's (9/7/11 to 12/22/82) grave is at St. Paul Church Cemetery. St. Paul Church is on Sandhill Road, about 7 miles south of Rockingham, NC and is near US#1. Lula Merritt McLendon lived near St. Paul Church.

Many members of my family have land on Sandhill Road, about 1.5 miles above the place Lula Merritt McLendon lived. Two of my uncles, great aunt and I each have a house on the land. I, Bryon R. Campbell was inspired by B.F. McLendon through Rev. Lester English, from Rockingham, NC, and sermons dealing with "Cyclone Mac".

When Rev. Lester English a was young man he was a newspaper reporter for a Hamlet, NC newspaper. Rev. Lester English is now in his early 90's.

When I  learned that my Grandfather, Daniel Elias Campbell (10/25/13 to 7/12/1998) went to see "Cyclone Mac", that also inspired me. After reading Cyclone Mac's books I do believe he is one of the best, if not the best, evangelist ever.

Below is also a photo of my father, William Thomas Campbell and I, Bryon R. Campbell, at B.F. McLendon family gravesite (McCall Cemetery Bennettsville) with each of us holding a book B.F. McLendon wrote. Then, the B.F. McLendon home, the tombstone and me.

(Sidenote here) The fifty-fifth governor of North Carolina, CAMERON A. MORRISON, when a child, lived across the road from one of our family ponds on Sandhill Road. My father, William Thomas Campbell, around 12 years did some research for one of the N.C. departments to show that the former governor lived there as boy. The people working in the department agreed that he had lived there and put it in their records.