Church and Family History Research Assistance
for Wright County, Missouri
CHURCHES:
OSAGE FORK (SEE ALSO LACLEDE COUNTY)
PISGAH (GROVESPRING)
Although undocumented, the best information we presently have states that Pisgah Church was organized at the home of Harvey Doty, in Laclede County, on September 4, 1841, and was originally known as Osage Fork Church. The six charter members were Harvey Doty, Sarah Doty, John Dosier, Rachel Dosier, William R. Weaver, and Jane Weaver. The presbytery was composed of Elders John Jones, and Nathaniel Willard. The meetings were held, at first, in the members' homes, with Elder John Jones as their pastor. Later a meeting house was built in Brush Creek, with services also being held part of the time in the Morgan and McMahan school houses. The first meeting house, and the records of the church, were destroyed by fire in 1899. In 1907 the church built a new meeting house, on a hill overlooking Parks Creek about a mile south of the Wright County line, between Pease Mill and Grovesprings, on old Highway 5. A new meeting house was built at the same site, which was completed in 1947. Some of the pastors of Pisgah Church included Elders Lum Agee, Elmer Calton, D. F. Coones, Oliver Coones, L. A. Green, Tom Scroggins, J. H. White, J. A. Ford, Houston H. Tracy, Dean Long, Jasper O'Dell, and Elmer Drumwright.
WOLF CREEK
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