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for Webster County, Missouri
CHURCHES:
OZARK (ROGERSVILLE)
Ozark Church was organized September 17, 1842, at the home of John Smith, with seven charter members, viz., Labon Ford, John Smith, Martha Ford, Helena Smith, Elizabeth Turner, Nancy Hicks, and Nancy Bruton. The location of this meeting was near the waters of the James Fork of the White River in what is now Webster County. From 1842 to 1859 meetings were held in homes of the members.
The first pastor was James Jones, who served until February 1872. In 1858 a committee was appointed and a site selected for a meeting house in Range 19, Sec. 4, Township 29, of Webster County. The church met when they could during the Civil War. In 1912 a new building replaced the old one, on a hill above Panther Creek. This building was destroyed by fire (set by an arsonist) in 1996, but has been replaced with a new structure. The church is about 7 miles north of Rogersville on Highway B.
NEW BETHEL (NIANGUA)
New Bethel Church is located at the site of the Mathis Cemetery, north of Marshfield on Highway CC, then left on Sampson road, and then turn left on Mathis road. New Bethel Church was a member of the Ozark Association for many years but is now an independent church.
FELLOWSHIP (MARSHFIELD)
Fellowship Church was organized in 1880, at the Wommack School, in Greene County, with Elder R. A. Wiseman as pastor, and Brethren A. H. Walker and R. B. Putman as deacons. In 1886, the place of holding services was moved to the Barnhart School house in Webster county. This school burned sometime after 1897, and meetings were then held in members' homes until the Fellowship Church meeting house was built in 1908, on the Jake Willis Farm. Elder C. C. Agee was the pastor until his death in 1934. Elder Tinsley Ford was then called and served until his death in 1958. He was followed by Elder Reeves, and then in 1960, by Elder Wilmer Harper, who served until 1986. The church merged with Round Prairie Church, at Louisburg, in 1992.
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