Early Churches of Perry County

This is just a simple listing. In the event you are especially interested in early members, ministers, etc. please contact me, giving me the name of the Church.
Also check the cemetery listings to see if perhaps the Church is there?

Baptist Churches

1. Hopewell Baptist Church, between Scott's Station and the Folsom cummunity in NW Perry. Organized April 1822, with Charles Crow as first pastor. Its cemetery contains graves of many early residents.
2. Oakmulgee Baptist Church located 18 miles from Marion in E part of Count; constituted June 1820, with Charles Crow [op cit] as first pastor. Another outstanding minister was Rev. Abner G. McCraw.
3. Siloam Baptist Church, Marion, deed 4 June 1824. First minister was Charles Crow [op cit]. Considered by some as "mother church" of many of AL's present-day Baptist congregations.
4. Pisbah Baptist Church, located a few miles north of Perryville. has cemetery with many early residents of Perry Co.(2) also spells it "Pisgah" and uses 1835 as date of organization.
5. First Baptist of Uniontown, formed c 1838. First buildings built 1850-51.
6. visitor Scott Mitchell writes to include Ephesus Baptist Church, Sprott "My family has been members of this Church for many, many years". Further information from (2): Organized 5 Nov 1865; listing of 28 members of Ephesus' original congregation; frame building ca 1880 still in use.
7. Concord Baptist Church, organized 1820. Located east of Cahaba Rv. near the center of Radfordville Beat. In 1927 moved 2 mi S to Perryville Rd., near Watters Creek. Early records destroyed by fire, but 1873 surnames include Radford, Oakes, Lockett, White, Ford, Suttle, Richardson, Fain, Huff, Bledsoe, Johnson, Cosby, Palmore,Jeffries.(2)
8. Medline Baptist Church, located in far eastern corner of Perry near Dallas Co. line; date of organization given as 1857; some 8 members listed (2)
9. Bethlehem Baptist Chruch, organized 1868 (2)
10. Friendship Baptist Church, organized 1845 (2)
11. Spring Hill Baptist Church, organized 1862 (2)
12. Uniontown Baptist Church, begun 1809; records 1809; 1838+; present name Uniontown First Baptist Church (2)

1. Mt. Zion Methodist, one of the earliest, if not the oldest in Perry, located several miles NW of Marion, founded 1822; also has churchyard cemetery, earliest burial dated 1830.
2. Marion Methodist, Marion, first listed Methodist records 1832 (Tombecbee Dist.); church erected 1837.
3. Methodist Church of Uniontown, added to Methodist circuit 1843; first church building erected 1849; 1858 present-day church.
4. Mt. Nebo Methodist Church (located 3 mi NE of Marion), organized 1860; listings of some 108 members, including early Johnston, Scarborough, Nichols, Lagrone, Nichols, Whitman and Leverett. (2)

1. Marion Presbyterian Church, organzied 1832; first building, erected 1834. Present building dedicated 1877.
2. First Presbyterian Church of Uniontown, organized 1848 in home of Col. John Howard Davidson. Name changed to First Presbyterian Church of Uniontown, 1853.
   
3. According to e-mail from Scott Mitchell quoting from The Sesquicentennial History of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church "... Rev. James N. Moore organized 3 churches in Central AL about 1850. Summerfield in Dallas Co. and Farrer's Church..." [in Perry Co.] "and Fairview in Perry County." - Scott also has a copy of the Fairview Cemetery and would like to hear from anyone who hs information on these Churches.

1. St. Wilfrid's Episcopal, Marion. First known as St. Michael's (1838-39); no services 1839-1847; services resumed 1847-1853 when name was changed to St. Wilfrid. First Church building erected 1849.
2. Uniontown. First services 1844; officially known as Union Parish, 1845. First house of worship 1848. In 1850 Union Parish was divided:
   • St. Michael's Church at Faunsdale
   • Church of the Holy Cross, Uniontown; further (2) "about 60 people attended the 1845 services".

Townes further lists the 1844 Church memberships:
Baptist, 375 communicants
Methodist Church, 78
Presbyterian Church, 213
Deciples[sic] or Cambellite, 15