Lafferty Memorial Church

Lafferty was organized in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and its known history dates from 1870, when trustees including Elisha Baxter, who became governor of Arkansas in 1872, purchased a lot for the church at 3rd and Boswell. The church was moved to 8th and Neeley in 1917. Lafferty disbanded in 1969, and its members requested that the church at 8th and Neeley be sold and the funds divided between Philander Smith College and the First United Methodist Church of Batesville. Mrs. Benita Smily and David Pope, who attended Lafferty, became the first Negro members of the First United Methodist in Batesville.

Batesville, Arkansas · United States