Sardis Primitive Baptist Church was constituted 10 June, 1876, about one and a half miles north of Evant near Murphree Cemetery in the home of Samuel M and Phebe (Nations) Murphree. 

Charter members were W. M. West, M. W. Dumas, R. Burks. Samuel M. Murphree, F. B. Brown, A. Burks, Elizabeth West, Nancy Dumas, R. N. Jeffries, B. E. Lee, W. R. Chambers, J. B. Dumas, J. C. Caudle, Jasper Chambers, Pheba Murphree, Susan Brown, Polly Ann Dumas, Rebecca Lee, Rebecca Jeffrey, Margaret H. Lee, and Elizabeth Dumas. Later this church was relocated to Little Cowhouse Creek, Blue Ridge, Partridge Creek and finally Hamilton.