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CHURCHES:
SHILOH
ROUND PRAIRIE (LOUISBURG)
Round Prairie Church, at Louisburg, was organized at the home of Francis Wisdom, near Louisburg, on June 16, 1849. The charter members were Wesley Butcher, Andrew Hammock, Francis Wisdom, Elder Josiah Conn, Elizabeth Conn, and Elizabeth Wisdom. The presbytery was composed of Elder Josiah Conn, Deacon Francis Wisdom, and J. S. Stockton.
The church met at various homes and school houses, monthly, until 1872, when a meeting house was built on Bro. W. C. Wisdom's farm about two miles south of Louisburg. A new church building was erected in Louisburg in 1889, which is still in use.
Elders ordained by this church have included W. C. Wisdom (1874), L. A. Green (1892), J. H. White (1892), C. C. Agee (1899), J. H. Breshears (1899), F. M. Wisdom (1901), and J. C. Hodges (1902).
Pastors have included Elders Josiah Conn (1849), I. D. Sidwell (1869), W. C. Wisdom (1878), J. H. White (1901), L. A. Green (1909), J. A. Ford and J. H. White (jointly) (1916).
Round Prairie Church represented in the Southwest Association of Regular Baptists from 1849 to 1853; then with the Missouri Association of Regular Baptists from 1854 to 1859. After 1870, the church united with the Ozark Association.
The Ozark Association was organized May 18, 1844, at Shiloh Church in Niangua (now Dallas) County, with three churches having an aggregate membership of 66, viz., Shiloh, Ozark (Green Co.), and Osage Fork (Wright Co.).
UNION (BUFFALO)
Union Church was organized at the Obanan Schoolhouse, eight miles south of Buffalo, on the first Saturday in October, 1880, with five charter members who were dismissed for that purpose from Round Prairie Church, viz., R. D. Lightfoot, L. D. Teague, J. M. Linsey, and Linvill Minatt and wife. The presbytery was composed of brethren from the Ozark Association, as follows: From Round Prairie, Elder W. C. Wisdom, Deacons L. A. Greene, and J. E. Arnald, and Bro. F. M. Wisdom. From New Hope: Elder T. V. Ware, Lic. L. C. Mills, and Brethren John Chastain, Anderson Ware, and J. C. Thomas. The church, newly organized, elected Elder W. C. Wisdom as pastor, and R. D. Lightfoot as clerk.
NEW HOPE (LONG LANE)
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