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DeKalb County, Tennessee, Religious Congregations

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Date: 1800 [unknown]
Location: DeKalb, Tennessee, United Statesmap
Surnames/tags: Religious_Congretations Church
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Notes

A Transcription of Will T Hale's work has been transcribed and read here: DeKalbCounty, Tennessee Genealogy and History - Church History

TSLA has:

  1. New Bildad Primitive Baptist Church of Jesus Christ Records. DeKalb County, 1854-1919 (Microfilm Manuscript #881, 1 reel)
  2. Old Bildad Church of Christ Records. DeKalb County, 1812-1925 (Microfilm Manuscript #703, 1 reel)
  3. WPA Records, DeKalb County (Record Group #107, Roll 17, 1 reel). Roll includes Will Book A (1838-1854), Marriage Book B (1848-1859), Salem Baptist Church Minutes (1808-1908), and Tombstone Inscriptions & Baptist Church of Christ Minutes (undated).
  4. Tennessee, Records of DeKalb County: Salem Baptist Church Minutes, 1809-1908 (WPA, 1938) [name index]
  5. DeKalb County, Tennessee, Cemetery & Church Records [Baptist Church of Christ minutes] (WPA, 1936)
  6. Nixon, W. H. History of Indian Creek Baptist Church & related events. Dowellton, n.p., 1965. 271 pp.

Church Listing by Community

Alexandria

  1. ALEXANDRIA CHURCH OF CHRIST
  2. ALEXANDRIA CHURCH OF GOD
  3. FIRST BAPTIST
  4. NEW VISION BAPTIST
  5. PEOPLE’S INDEPENDENT MISSIONARY BAPTIST
  6. Seay Chapel African-American United Methodist Church, Alexandria, DeKalb, Tennessee
  7. WEST MAIN BAPTIST

Belk

  1. New Union Baptist Church, Belk, DeKalb, Tennessee

Dismal

  1. Coopers Chapel Missionary Baptist Church
  2. Fullers Chapel United Methodist Church
  3. Goshen Methodist Church[1]

Dowelltown

  1. ANTIOCH CHURCH OF CHRIST
  2. ASBURY
  3. DOWELLTOWN BAPTIST - Pastors of the Dowelltown Church, which was organized in 1894, were: J. W. Stewart, J. H. Grime, J. F. McNabb, W. J. Watson, J. H. Whitlock, and W. E. Wauford.[1]
  4. DRY CREEK BAPTIST - was organized through the instrumentality of J. M. Stewart and J. H. Vickers "near a straw stack in Dr. J. A. Fuson's lot," says Grime. A neat building was erected, the early pastors having been J. M. Stewart, William Simpson, J. H. Davis, J. H. Grime, and Stephen Robinson[1]
  5. INDIAN CREEK BAPTIST(Firstnamed Caney Fork Church, changed in 1848) Among its pastors were Henry Fite, J. C. Brien, William Simpson, J. M. Stewart, D. C. Taylor, D. W. Taylor, A. J. Waller, and W. E. Wauford[1]
  6. SNOW HILL BAPTIST
  7. SNOW HILL METHODIST

Helton

  1. LOWER HELTON BAPTIST
  2. UPPER HELTON BAPTIST

Keltonburg

  1. Church of Christ at Keltonburg, Keltonburg, DeKalb, Tennessee
  2. Keltonburg United Methodist Church, Keltonburg, DeKalb, Tennessee
  3. Old Bildad Church, Keltonburg Tennessee

Liberty

  1. AGAPE COMMUNITY ORTHODOX
  2. CARMELITE CENTER-SPIRITUALITY
  3. Cave Spring Missionary Baptist Church, Cave Springs Church
  4. LIBERTY UNITED METHODIST
  5. MT. ZION BAPTIST
  6. Salem Baptist Church, DeKalb County, Tennessee

Long Branch

  1. LONG BRANCH COMMUNITY

Pisgah

  1. Pisgah Methodist Church, Pisgah, Dekalb, Tennessee

Smithville

  1. ALLEN'S CHAPEL METHODIST
  2. BAPTIST TABERNACLE
  3. BLUFF SPRINGS CHURCH OF CHRIST
  4. BRIGHT HILL[1]
  5. CALVARY BAPTIST
  6. COVENANT BAPTIST
  7. CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN
  8. ELIZABETH CHAPEL BAPTIST
  9. FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD
  10. FIRST BAPTIST
  11. FIRST UNITED METHODIST
  12. IGLESIA LA HERMOSA
  13. KINGDOM HALL-JEHOVAH'S WITNESS
  14. KINGDOM OF JESUS
  15. LIGHTHOUSE IN-HOME MINISTRY
  16. MT. HERMAN MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
  17. MT. VIEW PRIMITIVE BAPTIST
  18. NEW BILDAD PRIMITIVE BAPTIST
  19. NEW HOME MISSIONARY BAPTIST
  20. NEW LIFE UNITED PENTECOSTAL
  21. NORTHSIDE CHURCH OF CHRIST
  22. OUTREACH BAPTIST CHURCH
  23. REFUGE CHURCH
  24. SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
  25. SMITHVILLE CHURCH OF CHRIST
  26. SMITHVILLE CHURCH OF GOD
  27. SMITHVILLE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
  28. SMITHVILLE FREE WILL BAPTIST
  29. ST. GREGORY'S CATHOLIC
  30. THE HARVEST TIME CHURCH
  31. WEBB CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST
  32. WHORTON SPRINGS BAPTIST - was constituted three miles south of Smithville in 1889 in the dwelling of E. B. Allen. Among its pastors were William Simpson, J. A. McClusky, J. H. Davis, J, M. Stewart, and J. T. Oakley.[1]

Temperance Hall

  1. Temperance Hall Pentecostal Church, Temperance Hall, DeKalb, Tennessee
  2. Temperance Hall Methodist Church, Temperance Hall, DeKalb County, Tennessee

Other

  1. Beech Grove, at the mouth of Holm's Creek, established in 1858[1].;
  2. Sycamore Fork Church - having in 1902 the largest membership of any in Salem Association, is on the line between DeKalb and Cannon Counties, and was instituted through the efforts of Rev. Henry Bass in 1871. A house of worship was built in 1895. Of the pastors, these are recalled: Henry Bass, Hall Bethel, J. R. Hearn, William Simpson, J. H. Grime, G. A. Ogle, Stephen Robinson, and W. J. Watson. Of pathetic interest is the fact that one of the young ministers trained in this Church, J. T. Hancock, was called to its care, but died before his first appointment[1].
  3. Wolf Creek, near Laurel Hill, 1846[1].;

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Source: HISTORY OF DEKALB COUNTY TENNESSEE By Will T. Hale; Published by Paul Hunter, Publishers, 1915




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