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NOTES FROM FOUNDING HISTORY
BAPTIST CHURCHES
Union Area, 1762-1812, South Carolina
Published in The Oklahoma Genealogical Society Quarterly
Volume 8, Number 1, 1963
Continued from Volume 7, Number 4, Dec. 1962
Unity or Brown's Creek Church - In Nov. 1831 Unity Church sent a committee composed of
John PORTER, Charner ADAMS, Christopher VAUGHAN, Sherod W. NANCE and Wilson
TOLLESON to attend a joint conference at Fairforest to help in settling a
church matter. Records in 1845 name Rev. J. G. KENDRICK as pastor...which time
he was assisted by Rev. Joseph SUTTLE, Rev. F. LITTLEJOHN and others...In the
year 1845 licensed Columbus C. VAUGHN to preach the gospel. Rev. James P. JETER
was also pastor of the church for a few years just before the Civil War. In
1861, a new church had been erected and the building dedicated by Rev. J. S.
EZELL.
Pleasant Hill Baptist Church - This old church was located on the south side of
Enoree River in Laurens County near Duckett Place on Jones Ford Road. In old
minutes of Padgett's Creek Church, this church is referred as DILLARD'S Meeting
House and as Pleasant Hill Church. References are made to the church 1812, 1818
and 1819. Then in Feb. 1839, Padgett's Creek Church sent a committe to the
Pleasant Hill Church to assist in settling a matter. Apparently the church had
ceased to be an Arm of Padgett's Creek Church when this request was made and
had become an independent body. Pleasant Hill was dissolved in the year 1854
and there is no sign of any church building at the place now. There is an old
cemetery there which has a considerable number of marked graves in it. The
family names of a few of the people buried there are DALRYMPLE, DILLARD,
DUCKETT, GOODWIN and MOSELEY.
Gilead Baptist Church - was constituted Sept. 27, 1804 from Fairforest Church
and admitted to Bethel Association in 1805...church was served by different
preachers until about 1819 but no record of any proceedings to be had...Nov.
1819 committee was Brother Greer and McDugell and Bro. Mitchell to arrange the
business, signed by clerk Robert COLEMAN...1839 church consisted of 27 members
- two white males John HAMES and James MAC WHERTER, 9 white females Sary HAMES,
Sary KIRBY, Mary REAVS, Palcey GIBSON, Susanna EISON, Susanna BERRY, Tresy MAC
WHERTER, Nancy LITTLE, Anne JACKSON and 16 black members...On Dec. 8,
1844...and during this time about 80 members joined this Church, some of them
by letter but most of them by baptism. The church then called Rev. Drury
SCRUGGS as pastor for the following year...made application and was admitted as
a member of the Broad River Association on Oct. 16, 1846...
Pacolet Church now Skull Shoals Baptist
Church -On March 12, 1788, William
SCISSON conveyed to the Elders of the Baptist Church on Pacolet River one acre
of land…There is also another deed of record from John REID to Isaac GOING and
William SPEARS, members of the Baptist Church at Skull Shoals for 2 ˝ acres of
land, including the cemetery…in what was then Union Co. and in the part later
cut off from Union to form Cherokee County…This church of 21 members was
constituted by Rev. James FOWLER and Rev. Isaac EDWARDS on May 20, 1787. Rev.
Fowler and Rev. Richard WOOD are named as ministers of this church for some of
the years before 1800; and during this same period of time, Rev. Joshua WILBORN
was messenger from this church to the Bethel Assoc. Some of the pastors listed
after 1800 were Rev. Jacob CROCKER, Rev. Isaac McKISSICK, Rev. J. G. KENDRICK
and M. MULLINAX.
El Bethel Church - was admitted as a member of the Broad River
Association in the year 1803..is situated in the Gowdeysville section of
Cherokee County, in a part cut off from Union County…It appears from the
minutes of the association that Elder Jacob Crocker was the first pastor of
this church and there were only 21 members at that time…In the year 1828 Elder
W. WALKER was called and served until 1834 (he was also pastor of the
Fairforest Church about the same time). In the following years some of the
pastors were Elder George WILKIE, Elder D. SCRUGGS, Elder F. W. LITTLEJOHN,
Elder R. P. LOGAN, Elder J. G. KENDRICK and Elder W. CURTIS…On July 11, 1837
James JEFFRIES conveyed to Joseph GUYTON, Adam S. GOUDELOCK, and Walter
MOORHEAD and their successors of El Bethel Church a certain tract of land on
the waters of Thickety Creek on condition that should the church be dissolved,
the property would go back to James Jeffries or his heirs.
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