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Sunshine Church II was built in 1880 and dedicated in 1883 by Rev. Sam Jones, replacing old Sunshine Church, two miles south of here, which General Sherman’s troops burned in 1864. A wounded northern prisoner, B.F. Morris of Shelby, Ohio, who had been cared for by the Hunt and Hascall families, returned in 1890 to preach in this church. R.J. Smith gave the land for the church and cemetery, and the first officers were W.F. Smith, pastor; George H. Patillo, presiding elder; and J.P. Hunt, J.M. Hunt, J.W. Barron, R.J. Smith, W.F. White, and Samuel Gordon, stewards.
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