Olin Baptist Church
was organized in 1878 by Presley O’Keefe, W. J. Hicks, Shelby King,
and A. A. Hensley, being called first King’s
Chapel Baptist Church and later Dry
Fork Baptist Church when it was located in the Dry Fork community.
Later this church changed its name to Pleasant Hill Baptist Church.
Macedonia Baptist Church formed by
1885 changed its name to Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in 1890. Pleasant
Hill Baptist Church was admitted to the Hamilton
County Baptist Association on 14 August, 1891. The last year Pleasant
Hill Baptist Church submitted a letter to Hamilton County Baptist
Association was 1898. On 12 August, 1899, Pleasant Hill
purchased one acre of land at a cost of $100 out of the P. A. Sublet
Survey from Mr. and Mrs. Erastus Kimber Ridenhower at Crossroads
. The Pleasant Hill Church was moved to the new site (current
location) of Olin Baptist Church and changed its name in 1900 to Olin
Baptist Church. Damaged by a storm in 1918, the church building was
torn down and rebuilt using the much of the original lumber. In 1948 an
adjacent acre of land was purchased from the Olin Methodist Church.
In 1980 the church was remodeled with stucco being added to the outside
walls, and an entrance added to the front.
Some of the pastors of Pleasant Hill
Baptist Church were:
J. H. Vinson,
1891--1893, 1895, 1897
J. B. Vinson,
1894
W. S. Johnson, 1898
Some of the church clerks were:
J. W. Talley,
1891
J. M. Warren, 1892
E. M. Newman,
1893
A. J. Leach, 1894--1898
Messengers to the annual association
meeting were:
1892--Henry Preachers
1893--W. Pierson, D.
M. Purdue
1894--E. M.
Gamble
1895--J. W. Warren, J. F. Rodgers,
and E. G. Smith
1896--J. M.
Warren, A. J. Leach, H. F. Nance
1897--W. W.
Pierson, A. J. Leach
1898--Rev. W. D.
Vinson
Some of the early pastors of Olin
Baptist Church were:
J. P. Kinchen,
1901
Hood Vinson,
1903
Steven Anderson Rains,
1904--1905
John Seymour Deaton,
1906--1908
M. E. Davis,
1909
John Dempsey West, 1910
Some of the early church clerks of Olin
were:
J. W. Barron,
1900
J. O. Leach,
1901--1903, 1909
C. N. Wade,
1904
J. B. Carter,
1905--1906
Fred Gordon, 1907--1908
N. N. Noble, 1910
Some of the early messengers from Olin
to the annual association meeting were:
1900--T. T. Gordon, G. W.
Eudaley, J. E. Arnold
1901--G. W.
Eudaley, J. E. Arnold, C. C. Nix
1902--J. E.
Arnold, Russell Eudaley, J. O. Leach
1903--G. W. Eudaley, Fred Gordon, C.
L. Sexton
1904--T. T. Gordon, W. S. Franklin, C.
N. Wade
1905--T. T.
Gordon, W. L. Franklin
1906--C. G.
Sexton, J. B. Carter, J. T. Wade
1908--G. W.
Eudaly, J. O. Leach, H. W. Henderson
1909--Fred
Gordon, Miss Zula Rodgers, Miss Mattie Leach
1910--N. N.
Noble, H. W. Henderson; J. A. Leach
1907
HCBA Minutes
1908
HCBA Minutes
1909
HCBA Minutes
1910
HCBA Minutes
1911
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