The First
Baptist Church organized in Paris, May 7th, 1831, and
the Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church, organized in November
1825, are still functioning. The Baptist Church was
organized at the home of Eli Bozarth, four miles south of Paris. The
charter members were: John and Mary Suney, Paul and Sarah
Hereford, John H. and Matilda Curry, Benjamin and Mary Sumey,
Isaac Coppage, Edward and Lucretia Turner, Nancy Donaldson, Mary
Smith, C.C. Acuff, Peter N. Mahan, James C. Mahan, John Hocker,
Fannie Pool and one colored man named Peter.
The Pleasant
Hill Presbyterian Church had as charter members, Jas. McGee,
John McCarney, Margaret Elizabeth, Mary B. and Rosa Ann McKamey,
Mary Ann McGee and Marietta, a colored woman.
Other old
churches in Monroe county were organized on the following dates:
Baptist:
Mt. Prairie
Baptist Church, April 15, 1837;
Crooked
Creek Baptist Church, March 18, 1840;
Long Branch
Baptist Church, February 1844;
Salem
Baptist Church, May 1857;
Mt. Airy,
February 1868;
Methodist:
Paris, March
1832;
Spencer
Chapel, 1832;
Mt. Zion,
1858;
Goss, 1833;
Granville,
1840;
Greenwood,
1854;
Madison,
1868;
Monroe City,
1866;
Deer Creek,
1879;
Christian:
Madison,
1841;
Union, 1872;
Santa Fe,
1855;
Granville,
1858;
Pleasant
Grove, 1862;
Monroe City,
1869’
Oak Ridge,
1871;
Mt Carmel,
1875;
Antioch,
1876;
Fairview,
1869;
Presbyterian:
Pleasant
Hill, 1825;
South Fork,
1853;
New Hope,
1858;
Catholic:
Indian
Creek, February 12, 1833
Source:
Article and photos from the Monroe County Appeal Centennial
Edition dated 13 Aug 1931. Submitted by Mary Beth Kirtlink. |