Church and Family History Research Assistance
for Graves County, Kentucky
CHURCHES:
BETHEL (DUKEDOM/7 MI. E. FULTON)(1824)
In an old minute book of the Old Bethel Primitive Baptist Church (Graves County, Ky.) founded in 1824, the names of Isaac Taylor, Moses Austin, Fredrick Farmer, David Freals, the Scotts, the Willinghams, the Gentrys, the Dunns and others are mentioned as some of the 29 charter members.
TRACE CREEK (1824)
Trace Creek Church was organized on October 2, 1824, with nine members, by a presbytery composed of Elders Absalom Copeland and Lewis Q. Goad. The original members came from Clark's River (Soldier Creek) and others.
GRAVES (EL BETHEL)(1831)
BRUSH CREEK (1835)
SURNAMES OF MEMBERS:
LIBERTY (1835)
ZION (S. SEVENTH STREET IN MAYFIELD)
SURNAMES OF MEMBERS:
Adams, Boaz, Bowden, Brandon, Chester, Cross, Darnall, Davis, Haley, Lawson, Perkins, Pryor, Rudd, Saffer (very incomplete list due to lack of records).
NORTH MT. ZION (ORIGINALLY CALLED WEST MAYFIELD)(1834)
West Mayfield Church was organized on November 29, 1834. Its name was later changed to Mt. Zion, and still later North Mt. Zion, in 1843.
SURNAMES OF MEMBERS:
Bowden, Gilbert, Lock, Miller (very incomplete list due to lack of records).
SOUTH MT. ZION
SURNAMES OF MEMBERS:
PILGRIM'S REST (10 MI. N. MAYFIELD, 6 MI. E. of VIOLA)
SURNAMES OF MEMBERS:
Beard, Kaler, Overby, Owen, Wolford (very incomplete list due to lack of records).
MT. PLEASANT (2 MI. S. FLORENCE)(1834)
SURNAMES OF MEMBERS:
Boaz, Collier, Davis, Shaffer, Vandergriff (very incomplete list due to lack of records).
HARMONY (1 MI. S. of FARMINGTON)
SURNAMES OF MEMBERS:
Crouch, Pullen, Turner (very incomplete list due to lack of records).
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