Old Battle Creek Baptist Church
Photo submitted by Misty Fulfer
16 January 1904 Daniel Vinsant transferred to Daniel Vinsant, John Smith,
T. J. Smith, S. C. Byrne Register of Marion County.
(Originally Ebenezer Church - Methodist Episcopal denomination)
Smithtown Kelly's Cove Marion County
Photo identified by Bob Hookey and Bill McConnell
James Kelly, Robert Smith, Leon Burk and William Gilliam, Trustees
and their successors in office forever the following described real estate
situated in the 11th civil district of Marion County, Tenn, and bounded as
follows:
Beginning at the Battle Creek road on the Lowery Reservation line running
west 12 poles to O. P. Gilliam's corner; thence north 13 poles to O. P.
Gilliam's
northeast corner; thence east to the Battle Creek road; then south with said
road to the beginning. Hand written is another sentence, Twenty
feet on the
South boundary line is not to be enclosed by fence.
For the use and benefit of
the Ministry and membership of
the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
P. H. Thach of the firm of Tatum &
Thach, Lawyers, Jasper,
Tenn., notarized the deed.
"This deed is referring to the church earlier known as Ebenezer Methodist
Episcopal Church which later it became a chapel of Highland Park Baptist Church
and was called Battle Creek Baptist"
Betty McBee