This church was first organized under the name of Harmony Baptist in August, 1842, by Elders Jeremiah Taylor and A. C. Broaddus. Rev. Taylor was the first pastor and Wm. T. Keith the first regular clerk. Among the first members were:
A. W. Johnson | Andrew B. Hawkins | Edward Searcy |
Judith P. Searcy | Wm. T. Keith | Eliza Hawkins |
Philomelia Johnson | Mary Reno | W. H. Pepper |
W. F. G. Lonsdale | Ann T. Wallace | Jane Ann Couch |
Rebeeca Ann Corder | H. A. Johnson | Francis Evans |
Nancy Jane Turner | Rachel Sands | Hannah Day |
Sarah Ann Cobbs | M. H. Couch | Elvira Couch |
Delilah Johnson | Joseph Sands | Nancy Ann Sands |
Marsena Maxey | Mary Vanlandingham | Sarah Pepper |
Thomas Day | Sarah S . Reed | Emeline Toliver |
Milton Crockett | Elizabeth Pepper | Robert Lewis |
Henry M. Nicol | Eliza Nicol | Charlotte Glenn |
J. Q. Christian |
The congregation first occupied a church in conjunction with the Old School Presbyterians. The first church house was built in the fall of 1877. It is a frame building, 30 x 40, seating comfortably 300 people, and cost about $950. It was dedicated the same fall by Rev. W. Pope Yeaman, D. D., then of St. Louis, now of Columbia, Mo. The present membership is 77. B. P. Hixon is the pastor; Mr. J. Christian is and has been for 30 years the clerk.
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