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for Sullivan County, Missouri
CHURCHES:
MT. MORIAH (BROWNING)
Mt. Moriah Church was organized in 1884 by Elder J. E. Goodson, Jr., and possibly others, with ten charter members, viz., John Turner and wife, G. P. Taylor, Carrie H. Taylor, Jesse Yocum, Elizabeth Yocum, David Ogle, Fannie Ogle, Jane Ogle, and Bro. Gooch. The church increased to eighty members under the care of Elder Goodson during the time it met at Browning. The church was reorganized in 1894 at Hickory Grove, about six miles southeast of Milan.
MT. GILEAD
MT. MORIAH (MILAN)
Mt. Moriah Church, six miles southeast of Milan, was originally established as an arm of the original Mt. Moriah church in Browning (in Linn County), on June 4, 1894. The Arm was authorized to hold worship services at the Hickory Grove Schoolhouse, a short distance south of the present meeting house.
The present meeting house was constructed on land adjoining the schoolhouse, on land which was purchased in the spring of 1907. Wiley Taylor Sr. and Perry Bunch were the carpenters.
Pastors who have served Mt. Moriah Church include Elders Silas W. Sears, S. L. Pettus, Archie Brown, J. W. Bradley, G. E. Edwards, Emerson McAfee, Walter Acton, and Harold Taylor.
Mt. Moriah Church became a member of the Yellow Creek Association as early as 1904, as it hosted the session of 1905.
SURNAMES OF MEMBERS:
Acton, Almond, Broyles, Bummer, Bunch, Call, Callihan, Cannon, Cox, Cupp, Fanning, Grismer, Hale, Harmon, Hoover, Johnson, Jones, Kibble, Lawrence, Leach, Lee, Love, May, McCollum, McCormick, Murphy, Nanneman, Neeley, Newkirk, Phipps, Quigley, Robinson, Scott, Smith, Spencer, Stinson, Sullivan, Swearengen, Taylor, Thompson, Tipton, Troxel, Vess, Walters, Whitaker, Withrow, Williams.
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