St. Clair County Missouri
Churches
Pleasant Springs Baptist Church
Roscoe Township
History of Henry and St. Clair Counties, 1883:
Pleasant Springs Baptist Church was organized in 1847, on section 14, some
three miles west
of Roscoe village. The names are not all given of the
original members, but those who
joined in organizing the church were: O.
Smith, B.T. Morris and wife, Snoden T. Morris and
Nancy Morris. Its church
building was erected in 1860, but was destroyed during the Civil War
and was
not rebuilt.
Pastors were: Revs. O. Smith, John Ford, J.B. Box, John C. Brasher, John T.
Metcalf,
Harvey Smith, Elder Birdsong and W.B. Belisle.
Pastors
J.T. Metcalf, 1866-67
J.C. Breshears, 1867
J.T. Metcalf, 1869
James Freeman, 1870
J. Birdsong, 1871-72
Harvey Smith, 1873
W.B. Belisle, 1874-76
Calvin Wares, 1877
Records lost 1878-1881
J.T. Metcalf, 1882-83
J.C. Breshears, 1884
James Freeman, 1885
J.T. Metcalf, 1886-87
W.F. Shackford, 1888
R.W. Hudson, 1889-91
J.M. Hawkins, 1893
R.W. Hudson, 1894-95
Wm. Love, 1896-97
J.F. Tucker, 1898-99
W.S. Birdsong, 1900-04
J.K. Tinsley, 1905-08
Ben Zener, 1909
W.T. Atwood, 1910-11
F. Casey, 1912
H.W. Eversole, 1913-20
A. Weaver, 1921
Leland Newman, 1921-23
Ike Shurley, 1924-26
McClain, 1927
Joe Leith, 1928-29
Walter Martin, 1930-33
H. Mustain, 1934
D.D. Talley, 1935-37
Kenneth Nichols, 1938
J.C. Bybee, 1939
Walter Martin, 1940-42
Ed Elliott, 1943-44
Dude Pace, 1945-46
Elmer Wright, 1947-49
Joe Leedy, 1950-52
Virgil Wells, 1953-54
Amos Jackson, 1955
Wes Cox, 1956-59
Joe Leedy, 1961
John C. Moore, 1962-63
Lytle E. Barnett, 192-63
Amos Jackson, 1964-72
Submitted by Mary Zeiler