Wilkin Bacon (1908–1981)

He was baptized into Christ by James Burton Coffman in 1937. Wilkin Bacon was a very capable song director and teacher of singing and a dedicated preacher of the gospel.

Brother Bacon's first full-time work with the church was with the Sunset Church of Christ in Dallas in 1942. Other churches he served included Hampton Place Church, Dallas; Corsicana, Texas; Abraham Street Church, Arlington, Texas; Northside Church, Duncan, Oklahoma; Park Row Church, Arlington, Texas; and the church in Talihina, Oklahoma.

He sang baritone in the Lone Star Quartet, a Gospel group that performed on radio station KWFT in Wichita Falls, Texas, and later on station WPTF in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1946 the Bacon Male Quartet was formed, consisting of Paul Epps, Tex Stevens, Ray Woods and Wilkin Bacon. They sang frequently for the glory of the Lord. Many of the songs they sang were recorded. He also sang in quartets with L.O. Sanderson and Leon Sanderson. The last few years brother Bacon sang with his local Talihina quartet, including Dr. and Mrs. Robert Hampton and Mrs. Mary Hand.

Wilkin Bacon was a singer with a beautiful voice from the days of his youth. He became affectionately known as "Big Chief" (he was Choctaw Indian) when he became a member of the famous Stamps Quartet, heard by hundreds of thousands on radio.
More than 40 years ago he resigned from the Stamps Quartet to devote his life in the Lord's church to singing the gospel and preaching the gospel. "Chief" Bacon was not only a great singer and song director, he was a very effective teacher - teaching in schools the rudiments of music and teaching people how to sing praises to God.

"Chief" was not only an accomplished and effective singer, but he had a wonderful ability to teach others to sing, perhaps because he loved so much to sing. He taught many "singing schools" and conducted many singer training series in the brotherhood