Randolph County AlArchives Church Records.....The Early Years of the Churches at Malone Copyright Date 1926
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Township 21, Range 10
Malone, Randolph County, Alabama

History of Randolph County by E.E. Smith:

According to date in hand McGill's Church, located in Randolph County, near and 
on the west side of the Tallapoosa River, a little north of Hutton's Ford, now 
Louina, was organized by the Rev. John Hunter on a weekday in the summer of 
1837. The principal members who constituted that Society were the Hardys, 
Harrises, McGills, and Smiths. Spencer Smith, who had just settled where 
Daviston has recently sprung up was appointed class leader at McGill's
Society upon its organization. The house built there for worship was made of 
split logs and was eighteen by twenty fee covered with rough boards and had a 
dirt floor covered with pine straw, and seats, without backs, made of puncheons.

The oldest marked grave in the cemetery is that of Emily McGill who died in 
1857.                
        
History of Malone, Randolph County by Frank W. Barnett 1926 written for the
Birmingham News.

The writer had the privilege of being in the home of Nixon Lucas, moderator of 
the Randolph Baptist Association, and one of the leading spirits in the Malone 
church, he having moved into the town when there were only seven members on the 
rolls; and therefore, was enabled to get pretty full data about the church.  
The membership is 102. The church was admitted into the Randolph County 
Association in 1910.
Nixon Lucas Sunday school superintendent.
The deacons Nixon Lucas, J. H. Fisher, R.H.L. Liles and C.H. Fisher.
It was organized in 1909 through the efforts of Revs. J. W. Dean, and "Jud" 
Dunaway, they having held a revival at Malone. 
Some of the charter members being 
Dr. C. A. Jordan and wife
A.M. Stone 
Webb Jordan
Rev. W. M. "Bud" Worthy was the first pastor 
and he was followed by T. E. Steals. 
Then came J. D. O'Keefe
Tom Culpepper
R. M. Allen
W. M. Garrett
H. Willoughby 
G. G. Shaddix 

The Malone Methodist church was organized some 10 years back, among the charter 
members being the Moncus, Stone, Daniel, McGill. Camp, Wilkinson, Windsor and 
Fetner families. 
The church was organized by the Rev. T. N. Crumpton. The first pastor was T. N. 
Crumpton, but the first one to serve after the church was built was B. F. Allen, 
then came George Elliot, D. C, Pennington, T. M. H. Holcomb, Paul Brasher and S. 
S. Owens. The present pastor is O. O. Morton, with Roy Moncus as Sunday school 
superintendent. 

The school was organized about 1907. the first principal being Robert Young, who 
was followed by Stevenson Peavey, Miss Emma T. Sharman, C. K. Parker, Prof. 
Humphrey, W. L. Lee, Mrs. Frank Bishop, H. M. Moody. Miss Eucal Crouch, the 
present principal, is assisted by Miss Fannie Sue Pate. There are 100 pupils 
enrolled. 

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