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"The elders in 1873 were Wm. Wilkerson, Perry Cameron, F. M. Carroll and A. J. Martin. The present elders are J. E. Ferril, F. M. Carroll, F. J. Vaughn and D. B. Jesse. The pastors since the church was organized, as nearly as we can give them in their order, are as follows: L. J. A. Prather, John Prather, Lafayette Munkirs, O. D. Allen, Geo. W. Hawley, L. F. Hayes, H. R. Norris, H. W. Fisher, Y. W. Whit-
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sett, Arthur L. O'Dell, R. H. Craig, J. H. Tharp and James Froman.
"For several years there were only a few who kept the church alive, and these faithful few were Mrs. Mary P. Vaughn and her daughter, Mrs. John M. Hart, Mrs. Thos. Smith, Mrs. L. C. Pettus (till recently Clerk of Session), F. M. Carroll, his wife and daughter Emma and Mrs. Wm. Wilkerson; a few years later, H. R. Norris and wife. In 1894 Rev. C. E. Hayes con- ducted a revival in which the church was greatly strengthened, heads of families being converted and coming into the church. Among these were Messrs. Thos. Smith and J. N. Hart, husbands of two of the women who had labored so untiringly, and Mr. F. J. Vaughn, son of Mary P. Vaughn, an aged and loyal member. Mr. Vaughn has been Superintendent of the Sabbath school ever since then."
Elder Luke H. Moss, Superintendent of the Sab- bath school of the first Cumberland Church of St. Joseph for twenty years, has kindly furnished the fol- lowing data: "The original church was built in 1882, Rev. F. M. Miller being considered the moving spirit in the enterprise. Associated with him were such men as Ed. M. Davidson, T. B. Gordon, Wiley H. Chapman, et al. Among the first elders were E. M. Davidson and J. W. White. Dr. J. W. Burton Farr, Revs. S. A. Sad- ler, Alonzo Pearson, J. H. Norman, J. H. Doran, D. E. Bushnell, D. D., M. B. Irvine, G. A. Blair, P. M. Simms and Arthur W. Henderson have been pastors; the latter is now. We have maintained a Sunday school from the start which has always taken a leading part in the church work of this city and Platte Presbytery. The old church house was razed in 1903, during the pastor- ate of G. A. Blair and a new one built on the same site, containing seven class rooms and a primary class room, all facing and opening into the auditorium so that we can seat a thousand persons. This church, Sixteenth and Edmond Streets, cost $5000. T. P. Gor-
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don, J. A. Whiteford, Bruce Mitchelhill, W. D. Boyer and myself compose the present eldership."
Rev. R. H. Barnes, D. D., the pastor writes: The United Presbyterian Congregation of York was organ- ized in the summer of 1878, by Rev. Marion Morrison, under the name of Greenville, and was under the care of the United Presbyterian Presbytery of Nebraska. The first members were Joseph and Ellen Ely, Samuel Hafferty, Solomon and Susan McCully, W. O. Miller, James and Ellen Rankin, Misses Laura and Lou Ran- kin and Wm. P. and Eliz. J. Smith. Solomon McCully and Joseph Ely were elected elders. The name of the congregation was changed to York, to correspond with the name of the post office where the members received their mail, in 1881, when the Rev. R. H. Barnes came to the congregation as its pastor.
In the Cumberland General Assembly Minutes for 1905, the Agency Church was reported as having ΓΌ house of worship and a manse valued at $2,000, eighty resident members, and sixty-seven in attendance on Sabbath school. From other sources we learn that the recent pastors have been A. W. Green and D. M. Boyer, and the present elders are James A. Smiley, Thos. Brinton and Jos. Smiley. The Sabbath school is vigorous.
Alpha, Church, Grundy county, is found in the Minutes of the Synod of Missouri for 1907 and 1908, but not in the Cumberland Minutes for 1905 and 1906. Probably it became extinct before 1905.
The only mention of the Antioch Church found is that it was dropped from the roll of Upper Missouri Presbytery, April 3, 1869. Its location is not known.
Sometime in 1868 a church was organized at Salem
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by Rev. J. N. Young (its first pastor) with eleven mem- bers, and it was received by Upper Missouri Presby- tery, October 3, 1868, Elder Arthur Andrews represent- ing it. "In 1870 it was removed two miles east to Barnard, the name being changed accordingly, and re- organized by Rev. E. B. Sherwood with Mrs. C. C. Baker, James Griffin and wife, Wm. Griffin, C. House and wife, J. C. McCandliss and wife, Mrs. S. McFar- land, Samuel Stonehocker and wife, Albert Ulman and others. It was served by E. B. Sherwood, Wm. Ilsley and B. D. Luther. A church costing $1500 was built." So says a history in the Kansas City Library.
From various sources we learn that the church was also served by M. L. Anderson, E. W. Symonds, James Reed and J. K. Sawyers; and that its roll of elders includes J. C. McCandliss, Henry Dorst, James Griffin, Geo. S. Graves, J. C. Robinson, J. E. Akey and Henry Stalling. "The Barnard Church was disbanded and the building sold in 1907." The place is small and was greatly overchurched.
The data for this fragmentary sketch of the Bee Creek Church, including its branches and successors, Fancy Bottom, Iatan, Mt. Pisgah and Mt. Bethel churches, were obtained from Rev. O. D. Allen, Mrs. M. A. Collier, Mrs. Mary Bigham Collier and L. R. Pal- mer, Clerk of Session, and especially from Elder Isaac W. Carson (son of Elder John H. Carson), Clerk of Session of the Iatan and Mt. Bethel churches from 1874 to 1900, and the venerable Mrs. Minerva Moore (sister of Elder Sidney C. Risk, of Kentucky stock). The dates of the latter, who had access to the Records of the Mt. Bethel Church, are the ones here given.
The Bee Creek Church was organized at the Miller school house (which is believed to have been six or seven miles north-east of Iatan) by Rev. Henry Renick. Very little is positively known of its early history ex- cept that Elder John Bigham represented it at the or- ganization of the Platte Presbytery, in 1845. (See
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page 4.) After worshiping in school houses for some years, its first building was a log church in the vicinity of the old cemetery on the place now owned by L. D. McColley, about five miles north of Weston. Later they erected a frame building one mile south of the log church. When the name of the church was changed to Mt. Pisgah is unknown, but it probably was when the church was built, the present name of the neighbor- hood being Pisgah. This building was sold in 1882 or 1883 after the Mt. Pisgah and Iatan churches united to form the Mt. Bethel Church. Sidney C. Risk was an elder in the former church at that time.
Mrs. Moore wrote in November, 1908: "The Fancy Bottom congregation was set off from the Bee Creek congregation by an act of Platte Presbytery, and was organized at the Fancy Bottom school house by Rev. H. R. Smith, in the fall of 1851, by the election of Col. James A. Smith, Geo. W. Dyer and Wm. Staggs as ruling elders. (Another authority gives Phillip Staggs as one of the first elders.) Philip Siler was elected elder in 1859. The name of the congregation was changed from Fancy Bottom to Iatan by Presby- tery in the fall of 1859."
Mr. Carson says: "The church house at Iatan was built under the ministry of C. B. Hodges. This being wrecked by a storm some time in the eighties (prob- ably June 16, 1882), the congregation of Iatan, join- ing in with the remnant of the Mt. Pisgah congre- gation, built the present-Mt. Bethel church" (which is situated three miles east by north from Iatan and about seven miles north by west of Weston. A well- cared-for cemetery is by it.) "The church was dedi- cated May 4, 1883. Richard Pemberton, S. Robinson, Elias Siler and I. W. Carson were elected elders at Iatan, and H. R. Smith, Benj. McCreary, C. B. Hodges and G. L. Moad preached there."
Mrs. Moore says the record of the first meeting of Session of the Mt. Bethel Church gives F. M. Miller as Moderator and S. C. Risk, G. W. Dyer and I. W.
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Carson as elders. C. B. Powers was Moderator in 1887; S. H. Murray, in 1890; L. F. Hayes, in 1892, and W. O. H. Perry, in 1899. Other pastors are O. D. Allen, J. H. Norman, R. D. Miller, Allen Guthrie and S. T. Divinia. A probably incomplete list of later elders is P. Linville, Albert S. Plummer, A. B. Foley, M. C. Ferril, S. P. Rose and Isaac McCrea : of deacons; C. M. Siler, R. Til- ton, John W. Carson, James M. Hord and Leonard R. Palmer. The church has been recently revived and greatly strengthened.
In the Presbytery of Chillicothe in the Minutes of the Synod of Missouri for 1906, appears the following: Bethel Church, near Oak Hill, has a frame church and its elders are Wm. Benner and J. R. Briscoe.
In 1905 the Birming Church reported fifteen mem- gers and church property (situated fourteen miles south of St. Joseph) valued at $800. W. R. Dallam was Clerk of Session.
The Blythedale Church was organized May 6, 1882. by Rev. E. B. Sherwood and Elders A. M. Morgan and James Scott, with eight members, J. H. Myles being elected elder. A church costing $1600 was promptly erected. Deaths and the removal of the leading family caused its disbandment April 2, 1885. Rev. James A. Mckay writes: "The church at Blythedale was or- ganized with but one Presbyterian family there at the time. After this family moved away the church was sold to the Baptists," in 1886.
"Rev. J. W. Pinkerton as chairman of the com- mittee to organize a church in Carroll county, reported (to Upper Missouri Presbytery, September 5, 1867) that on Sabbath, June 16, he had organized the First Presbyterian Church in Carroll county, with R. M. McLaury and Samuel Graham, ruling elders." In 1869
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this church reported twenty-five members and $1165 raised for congregational purposes ; and in 1870, thirty- six members. In October, 1869 it was represented at Presbytery by Elder J. C. Adams. Its name was changed to Ebenezer April 5, 1871. The Ebenezer Church had a house of worship, and was served . by Rev. J. D. Beard. It was disbanded in April, 1878.
There was an Old School church in Chillicothe which reported twelve members in 1859, and thirty- eight in 1869. It was vacant both times. It was dis- solved and stricken from the roll by Upper Missouri Presbytery, April 4, 1870.
Clear Fork Church appears twice in the Records of Upper Missouri Presbytery, in 1853, with seventeen members, Robt. Scott as its supply, and Ridgeley as its post office; and again in 1869 when it was dropped from the roll. Ridgeley Church, with twenty-six mem- bers, Robert Scott as supply and Ridgeley as its post office appears in the roll of the early Platte Presbytery in 1859. Probably the two churches were one and the same.
The Coloma Church was organized October 1, 1870, by Rev. J. D. Beard, with twelve members and one elder, and was dropped from the roll April 2, 1885. Dr. W. H. Dice says; "The Coloma church was organized partly from members of the Ebenezer church. Thomas H. Trussell and wife, Dr. J. P. Dice and wife and Mrs. R. M. McLaury and family were, I presume, among the charter members." The elders were T. H. Trussell, R. D. Allen and Wm. H. Dice, M. D .; the deacons, John Reed and Geo. Ross.
Elderton Church, with J. N. Young as supply, and Gentryville as its post office, but otherwise only a blank report, appears in 1859. It does not appear on the roll
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of Upper Missouri Presbytery after June, 1867.
The Fairview Church, six miles northeast of St. Joseph, was originally known as High Prairie. In 1905 it reported fifty-three members, and church property valued at $900. O. B. Lawliss was the pastor; and H. H. Higgins, Clerk of Session.
A church was organized at Farley between Septem- ber, 1860 and April, 1861. John R. Swain, an eminent Christian and business man, was the elder. His re- moval to Platte City ended the church.
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In 1905 the Faucett Church reported 135 members, with a Sabbath school of fifty, and church property valued at $4,000.
The Forest City Church was organized between April and October, 1860, by Rev. Aug. T. Norton of Alton, Ill. All the records have disappeared. The el- ders known are H. K. S. Robinson, Wm. Zook, C. C. Platter and J. A. DeMuth. Among those who served it were Willis Weaver, J. S. McClung, Geo. Miller and Geo. A. Mckinlay. Under the last, it saw its best days, the membership reaching thirty-four. It embraced some strong earnest men who struggled long against most adverse and discouraging circumstances. Its last published report was in 1888, when its membership had been reduced to seven. The church seems never to have been formally disbanded.
Mr. Harry E. Robinson of Ottumwa, Iowa, son of Elder H. K. S. Robinson, wrote in July, 1907, as fol- lows. "I lived in Forest City till about three years ago. During the last three years of my residence there we tried to reorganize the Presbyterian Church, but could not do it. Rev. H. A. Sawyers of Oregon and others came and preached for us in the Christian church, but
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we finally gave it up, and my wife, her sister and I united with the Oregon Church." Mr. Robinson gives the following names of charter or early members : Mrs. Abel, James H. Allen, Mrs. Geo. W. Baldwin, Misses Ann and Mary Canon, Mrs. Canon, Mr. and Mrs. Joe De Muth, Mrs. Seth Ferguson, Mrs. Vine Hovey, Mrs. Ann Kaull, Mrs. Louis Lukehardt, Hugh K. S. and Mary M. Robinson, Mrs. Kitty Wells, Misses Clara, Edith and Joe Wilkinson and Mrs. Emma Williams.
April 3, 1869, Upper Missouri Presbytery "ap- pointed Rev. J. N. Young and Elder R. Muir a commit- tee to organize a church at Valley Mills, if the way be clear." October 9, 1869, "the committee appointed for the purpose report the organization of a church with two ruling elders and eleven members at Valley Mills to be known as Glendale Church."
The enrolment of this church seems to have been neglected, as it never appears in any roll of Presbytery, either written or printed.
A church was organized at Goshen, November 20, 1880, by Revs. E. B. Sherwood and D. McRuer. Among the charter members were Clark Deshler and wife, Mrs. Susan Easter, Thos. M. Harper and wife, Camp- bell Mehaffy, Mrs. Jennett Mehaffy, Chas. G. Russell and Wm. Tuttle. T. M. Harper and C. G. Russell were the first elders. The latter entered th ministry after- wards. Clark Deshler was an elder later. The church reported two elders and sixteen members in 1882. "The death of the church was caused by the death and removal of its few members." Its last report to Presbytery was in 1885.
For most of the above we are indebted to Mrs. Eliz. Lindsay, of Princeton and Mrs. Malissa Scott of Betha- ny, early members of the Goshen Church.
The Grand River Church was organized in 1871 by
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Rev. J. D. Beard, evidently the outcome of a revival. The first report, in 1872, gave sixteen members, eleven of whom were received on the profession of their faith, and five by letter. The second and last report (in 1873,) gave only ten members. Its location is un- known, but probably it was near the Grand River and in Carroll county.
The Grand View Church, which was probably in Grundy county, was organized September 15, 1865. In 1869 it reported thirty-one members. It was dis- banded by Upper Missouri Presbytery in April, 1877. In 1872 it reported forty-nine members, hence probably its speedy disappearance was owing to its absorption by some other church started in the vicinity.
"According to previous agreement, Revs. Robert Cruikshank and E. B. Sherwood and Elder Upton Rohrer, a committee appointed by Platte Presbytery, met at the school house on Hackberry Ridge (several miles northwest of Savannah), May 12, 1872, and find- ing 'the way clear,' organized the Hackberry Ridge Presbyterian Church. The church consisted of the fol- lowing sixteen, who were dismissed by order of Pres- bytery, from the Savannah Church: Andrew Barr, Harriet Barr, Jane Barr, John T. Barr, Wm. Barr, Wm. N. Barr, Abner Hart, Mary Hart, Andrew Hunter, Sarah Hunter, Theodore F. Hunter, Bernice Liggett, John Liggett, Mary Liggett, Elijah Martin and Sarah E. Martin; Jasper Conway and Rebecca Conway, re- ceived by certificate; and Harriet Isabella Barr, Jo- seph Barr, Mary Jane Barr, Maggie Bricilla Hunter, Wm. Hunter, Amanda Langford, M. Louisa Virginia Martin, Frances M. Tatlock and Susan Mildred Thrail- kill, received by profession. T. F. Hunter, J. Liggett and E. Martin were chosen and ordained as elders; and Jasper Conway and Abner Hart, deacons."
Later, Andrew Barr and Abner Hart were added to the eldership. March 26, 1896, after the death of
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Elder Barr, who for many years had been the only elder, Wm. N. Barr and Robert Goodloe were elected elders; and Wirt Ball and Tine McMurray, deacons. But the change in the residents of the neighborhood, which had been going on for years, continued so that the mem- bership was reduced to six in 1905. The church has been disbanded since, and the plain but commodious house of worship, erected soon after the organization, has been sold. The church was always grouped with Savannah and served by its pastors.
The following sketch of Mr. Barr, who was the Clerk of Session for fifteen years, was furnished by Rev. James Reed, one of his pastors.
Andrew Barr was born December 10, 1822 in Coun- ty Down, Ireland, and when quite small came with his parents to America, living for a short time in Pennsyl- vania and then in Scioto county, Ohio, where he mar- ried Jane Liggett. He came to Andrew county in 1847 or 1848. About 1852, he moved to Daviess county where he lived till April, 1865, when he returned to Andrew county and settled, in 1866, on the farm where he died, February 8, 1896. Mr. Barr was an earnest and devoted Christian man, always at his post in the church.
Rev. O. D. Allen writes that the first meeting of Platte Presbytery after Barnett Presbytery was con- solidated with it, was held at Halleck, Buchanan coun- ty in February, 1873, so that we may reasonably con- clude there was a Cumberland church there at that time.
The Harmony, now the Prairie Valley, Church, is situated near and east of Gallatin. In 1905 it reported fifty-seven resident members, forty in Sabbath school, and church property valued at $1,000. Henry Hamil- ton was Clerk of Session. The last report gives it ninety-two members and eighty-seven in Sabbath school. Recent pastors are M. R. Dougherty, N. M. Tatum and Geo. B. Sproule. -10
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The Highland Church was organized December 7, 1879, at the Highland school house, by Revs. Geo. Mil- ler and Geo. A. Mckinlay and Elder Robert Mont- gomery, a committee appointed by Platte Presbytery, with Miss Adda Carroll, Mrs. Eliz. Carroll, Josiah Car- roll, Misses Anna and Jessie J. Murray, Linville and Mary Murray, Nicholas F. and Eliz. J. Murray, Miss Josie Norval, Mrs. Jane Riggle, Mrs. Anna Yates and John M. Yates as members. N. F. Murray and J. M. Yates were elected elders. Most of the above were members of the Oregon Church previously. In 1881, it reported twenty-three members and was in a good financial condition. But the lack of a house of wor- ship, with deaths and removals, caused its disband- ment.
Honey Creek Church is near Spickard. In 1905 it reported sixty-six resident members, thirty in Sabbath school, and church property valued at $800. S. D. Belt was pastor, and J. C. Hon, Clerk of Session.
The Independence Church is six miles northeast of Easton. In 1905, it reported eighty resident mem- bers, thirty in Sabbath school and church property valued at $900. R. H. Craig was pastor. The last re- port gives thirty-five members, and G. W. Williams, D. T. Mark, Chas. Krofft, Silas Kerns and W. H. Sifers as the elders.
The Jameson Church was organized August 26, 1882, in the M. E. Church (South), by Revs. Alvin B. Goodale and Geo. A. Mckinlay and Elder S. D. B. Poage, with Geo. P. and Sarah Allen, Miss Lucy Cole, Lewis J. Gallagher, Miss Jessie Miller, Dr. Charles and Mary Frances Pipkin and John S. and Sarah E. White as members. Dr. C. Pipkin and J. S. White were elected elders. Geo. P. Allen and John H. Miller be- came elders later.
The last sessional record is dated February 17, 1895, when eight members, including an elder, were
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dismissed to other churches. On the removal of Dr. Pipkin, always the Clerk of Session, who had labored heroically to sustain the church, it was dropped from the roll. No house of worship had been erected, the Methodist brethren having most courteously and gen- erously given the use of their church for all meetings.
In 1905, the Jamesport Church reported twenty- eight resident members, thirty in Sabbath school, and church property valued at $1500. J. W. McGee was Clerk of Session.
April 3, 1868, "Rev. J. P. Fox reported to Upper Missouri Presbytery the organization in part of a church at Kingston. The report was adopted and the committee continued." It was "stricken from the roll," April 3, 1869.
The Liberty Church, eight miles northwest of Al- bany, reported thirty resident members, thirty in Sab- bath school, and church property valued at $500, in 1905. M. B. Irvine was pastor, and W. P. Caster, Clerk of Session. In 1907, J. R. Ross was clerk of Session.
The Long Branch Church, located in the vicinity of Hopkins, appears first in 1878, with eleven members and was supplied for five years by Rev. F. B. Dins- more. Though its highest number of members was nineteen, it had four elders, James H. Bain, Noah Barks, John McKee and H. H. Conrad. It never had a house of worship. At its last report, in 1885, it had ten members.
The Macedonia Church, which is near Bogard, was organized in 1860. In 1905 it reported forty resident members and church property valued at $1,000. S. S. Hardin was the pastor, and J. C. Daugherty, Clerk of
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Session. J. C. Daugherty and W. M. Dice are the present elders, and J. Caulk the Sabbath school Super- intendent.
Maple Grove Church, five miles northeast of Fair- fax, reported twenty-six resident members and church property valued at $1,200, in 1905. W. H. Hindman was Clerk of Session, and it had no pastor. J. A. Sauceman was Clerk of Session in 1906.
April 3, 1868, Upper Missouri Presbytery enrolled a church recently organized at Maryville by Revs. J. N. Young and Wm. M. Stryker. It reported twelve members in 1869, and was dissolved by Presbytery and stricken from its roll, April 2, 1870. Mrs. John Leiber, the only charter member known, became after- wards a charter member of the Union Church.
The McFall Church, which was organized in 1888, reported twelve resident members, church property valued at $1000 and $150 paid for preaching, in 1905. Wm. P. Brown was Clerk of Session. The recent pas- tors are E. L. Uptegrove, Geo. B. Sproule and E. C. Seabright. W. P. Brown and Daniel Fox are the elders.
The Mizpah Church was organized, April 14, 1878, in the New Salem school house (eight miles northwest of Skidmore and two miles south-east of Dotham) by Revs. J. W. Allen and E. B. Sherwood, and Elders Adam Faris and H. C. Wilson of Tarkio, a committee of Platte Presbytery appointed for the purpose. Mrs. Margaret Bilby, Mrs. Mary E. Botkin, Mrs. E. F. Car- ter, Mrs. Alamed Speakman, Bruce and Mary A. Walk- er and John A. and Nancy Wilson were received by letter; and Mrs. Lizzie Sloper, Miss Anna Walker, and Homer L. and Lucy T. Walker, on profession. B. Walker and J. A. Wilson were elected elders. John Dyer Owens, a licentiate of Allegheny Presbytery had
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preached there, as one of his mission stations, regularly for the previous six months.
Later, J. Hervey Laird became an elder; and John W. Botkin and John Price, deacons. The church never had a house of worship. Owing to the building of a railroad near, New Salem ceased to be a central point, and being reduced to a membership of nine, the church was disbanded April 22, 1896, after bravely and faith- fully doing a good work. Elder Walker stood by it- till the last.
The Mt. Carmel Church, eight miles from Bogard, was organized in 1881. In 1905 it reported twenty- seven resident members, church property valued at $500, and $148 expended in repairs. G. S. Renner was Clerk of Session and S. E. McDonald, pastor. The present elders are G. S. Renner and Adam Liller.
The Mt. Carmel Church, near Rockport, reported in 1905 twenty-five resident members, forty in Sabbath school, church property valued at $800, and $150 for preaching. W. C. Carter was pastor and W. D. Mor- row, Clerk of Session. G. W. Morrow was Clerk of Session in 1907.
The Mt. Gilead Church, near Cameron, reported nine resident members and church property valued at $1,000, but no pastor, in 1905. H. Wamsley was Clerk of Session.
The early name of the Mt. Pleasant Church, near Richmond, was Timber Ridge. In 1905, it reported thirty-three resident members, and church property, which includes a manse, valued at $2,000. J. E. Cort- ner was pastor, and W. R. Patton, Clerk of Session.
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