MARTIN’S GAP MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
1883-1917
Fairy Baptist Church began
as the Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church on 15 April, 1883, in
the North Meridian Creek School house by people who lived in the
vicinity of North Meridian Creek. The organizing presbytery
was composed of the following elders: J. W. Staton, Moderator, T.
H. Green, Secretary, and W. D. Anderson. The church chose the
name Mt. Pleasant and chose J. W. Staton to be its first
pastor. Charter members were Henry Evans, J. R. Williamson, Sarah Williamson,
J. P. Drennan, C. C. Drennan, G. W. Smith, Mary A. Smith, Betty A. Smith, and
Mary A. Evans.
Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church
was dismissed from the Bosque River Baptist Association on 21 October,
1887, when that association was dissolved.
Monthly services were held in the Mt. Pleasant
School House until 1 January, 1901. Mt. Pleasant Missionary Baptist
Church had changed its name to Martin’s Gap Missionary Baptist
Church by 7 September, 1888, when it was admitted to the Hamilton
County Baptist Association. When the report was sent for the
annual association meeting in 1921, the name of this church had been
changed to Fairy Baptist Church.
Early pastors included:
N. M. Leslie,
1888--1889
G. W. Herrington,
1890--1893
W. N. White, 1894--1896
F. L. DuPont.,
1897--1898
Early church clerks were:
A. C. Leslie,
1888--1889
J. L. Kolb,
1890--1891
J. W. Talley,
1892
A. C. Woodard,
1893--1896
C. P. Woodard--1897--1899
Early messengers to the annual
association were:
1888--N. M. Leslie and Henry
Evans
1889--N. M. Leslie, Henry Evans,
and S. C. McCarty
1890--Henry Evans and T. M.
Tyler
1891--Henry Evans and Thomas
Jones
1892--T. M. Tyler
1893--J. W. Moore, J. M. Burney, and
A. C. Woodard
1894--J. M.
Burney, A. C. Woodard, I. F. Johnson
1895--B. F. J. Davis, T. B. Rogers, and
J. M. Burney
1896--B. F. J. Davis, A. C.
Woodard, J. C. McNiel, W. M. Joyner, and J. M. Burney; 1897--J.
M. Burney, C. P. Woodard, and J. T. Talley
1898--J. M. Burney, J. T.
Tally, John Burney, and Sisters J. M. Burney, John Burney, and
S. L. Columbus
1899--Rev. Steven Anderson Rains
and Brethren J. D. Branham, J. W. Moore, William Gist, C. P. Woodward,
and J. M. Burney
1907
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1908
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1910
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