Primitive Baptist Church and Family History Research Assistance for Washington County, Arkansas
CHURCHES:WAR EAGLE
UNION
MIDDLE FORK OF WHITE RIVER (NAME CHANGED TO WEST FORK IN 1836)
Middle Fork Church was organized August 3, 1830, by a presbytery composed of Elder Samuel Wheat and Deacon John Wood. The charter members were John Wood, Eli Bloyd, Samuel Wheat, Isham Wood, Margaret Wood, Hannah Maxwell, and Mary Bloyd.
SURNAMES OF MEMBERS:
Akers, Allumbaugh, Baker, Bass, Bloyd, Boren, Brinson, Bryant, Campbell, Chapman, Davis, Dicus, Dyer, Easley, Erby, Evans, Evelin, Findley, Fine, Fortner, Gage, Gibson, Graham, Hail, Hays, Hill, Hobbs, Holcomb, Ingram, Irby, Keys, Kirk, Lamar, Lawrence, Liggett, Martin, Mathis, Maxwell, Mayfield, McCartney, Miller, Morrison, Musgrave, Newman, Pearson, Phelan, Price, Putman, Ransom, Ratliff, Rickman, Risley, Robinson, Sherry, Sherwood, Shores, Spencer, Standley, Stelle, Steward, Strickland, Taylor, Thomas, Tiner, Ward, Wheat, Williford, Wilson, Winn, Witherow, Wolf, Wood, Woods, Wright, Yates.
SHILOH (1840)
Shiloh Church was organized August 22, 1840, at the home of William Graham, eleven miles north of Fayetteville. The presbytery included Elders John Holcomb, William Poston, Samuel Wheat, and Deacon Berry D. Graham, from War Eagle, Union, and West Fork churches.
BETHLEHEM
MIDDLE FORK (FAYETTEVILLE)
Middle Fork Church, at Fayetteville, was organized on Saturday before the fourth Sunday in November 1843, by the following members, dismissed for that purpose from West Fork Church, viz., Jacob Coats and wife, Onesimus Evans, Thomas Brinson, Sarah Graham, John Ward and wife, Oliver Spencer and wife, Peter Vanwinkle and wife, John Miller and wife, Mary Jane Miller, and Martha Taylor.
LIBERTY
Liberty Church was organized on Saturday before the fourth Sunday in December 1844, at the home of Bro. William D. Shores, by the following members, who were dismissed for that purpose from West Fork Church, viz., Jacob Lemaster, Anderson Hutchins, James Sinclair, Zephaniah Harrison, Miner H. Winn, Eleazor Pelfry, William D. Shores, Elizabeth Harrison, and Leaday Winn.
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