Pleasant Hill Regular Baptist Church
PLEASANT HILL REGULAR BAPTIST CHURCH IS LOCATED ON SECTION 8 TOWN
SHIP 54 RANGE 14 SALT SPRING TOWNSHIP.IN 1865-66 THIS CHURCH EDI
FICE FOR THE PURPOSES OF WORSHIP WAS BUILT AT A COST OF ABOUT $1000
IN DIMENSIONS IT IS 36 X 40 FEET.AT THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH IN
MAY 1866 ORGANIZED BY REV M S SEARS THE FOLLOWING PERSONS
WERE PRESENT AND THEIR NAMES PLACED UPON THE RECORDS.LEONARD DOTTSON
AND WIFE,MRS MARGARET GOODDING,R R GOODDING AND WIFE,
NANCY HALL AND SISTER,PEYTON HALL,MRS MASON,S G PHIPPS AND WIFE,
J R PHIPPS AND WIFE,WILLIAM RODGERS AND WIFE,AND JAMES BROCK,WIFE,AND
MOTHER.AT THIS TIMES MEMBERSHIP NUMBERS NEARLY 40.REVS M J SEARS,
BENJAMIN OWEN,P M SEARS,AND JAMES K CARTER HAVE FILLED THE PULPIT OF
THIS SOCIETY.THE LATTER IS THE PRESENT PASTOR.THE MISSIONARY BAPTISTS
HAVE A HALF INTREST IN THE CHURCH WHICH WAS DEEDED TO THEM IN THE
FALL OF 1883,BUT THEY HAVE HELD SERVICES THERE FOR SOME 14 YEARS.
THEIR MINISTERS HAVE BEEN W L T EVANS,S Y PITTS,AND G B CLIFTON.
THEY HAVE 61 MEMBERS IN THEIR ORGANIZATION.