Brick (Bethel) Church

On Dec. 5, 1827 the Rev. Peyton L. Wade conveyed to John Green, John H. Smith, Robert W. Lovett, Richard Herringtom, Sr., Jacob Lewis, Elijah Roberts and John H. Nessmith, trustees, two and three quarter acres of land on which to build a Methodist Episcopal Church to be known as “Brick Church.” Construction was started immediately, and the building now on the site is the original. “Brick Church” succeeded Lessing’s Meeting House, a log building on nearby Rocky Creek at Scott’s Spring. Rev. John Crawford, who died in 1822, was the founder of Methodism in this community, and his widow, Sarah Maner Crawford, married Rev. Wade in 1823.

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