Randolph County AlArchives Church Records.....The First 50 years of Fellowship Baptist Church  Copyright Date 2023
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Township 22, Range 13, Section 3/10
Bacon Level, Randolph County.

Land Patents in TS 22, Range 13, Sect: 3
In 1838 & 1840 Joshua Spears 
In 1840 Cicero Hudson 
In 1840 John Willis 
In 1847 Calvin J. Ussery & Benjamin Ussery
In 1851 Milton J. Ussery
In 1851 Francis M. Boyd [Also in Sect: 10]
In 1853 Jeremiah Shephard 

Land Patents in TS 22, Range 13, Sect: 10
In 1840 Samuel & Mathew Dunkin
In 1840 Thomas L. Thomaston 
In 1848 Drury S. Allen
In 1850 James W. Allen
In 1850 John E. Smith 
In 1852 Mathew Pound 


In 1848 Fellowship Baptist was received as a member of the Liberty (East)
Baptist Association. In 1852 Rev. Phillips was the pastor of the church.

In 1850 Rev. James Spurlin was the pastor. A few of the later pastors were: 
Rev. Phillips, Rev. Gross, Rev. Mathews, Rev. J.R. Cumbie, Rev. H.J. Sorrels and 
Rev. C.J. Burden.

A few of the early Church Clerks were: Mathew Pound, M.J. Ussery, B.H. Bradshaw,
Wm Henry, W.D. Henry, J.A. Crouch and John Bradshaw. 

A few of the early Deacons were: C.H. Hudson, Jefferson Breed, Joseph Breed, 
B.F. Bradshaw, G.W. Allen and W.J. Mayfield.

In 1857 Elder John R. Cumbie was licensed by Fellowship church in Randolph 
County Ala, October 3rd, 1857. He was ordained on October 30th, 1858, by Elders 
N.H. Mathews, Benj Gross and Gideon Leverett. Rev. Cumbie remained at 
Fellowship Baptist until the Civil War. He left all four of his churches to 
enlist. 

In 1860 Fellowship Baptist church had 136 members. 

In 1867 the Liberty (East) Baptist Association held their annual meeting
at Fellowship. 

In 1871 Fellowship Baptist church was dismissed by letter to the Rock Mills 
Baptist Association. 

In 1876 Rev. H.J. Sorrels was the pastor. M.J. Ussery was the church clerk. 
Delegates were: B.F. Bradshaw, G.W. Allen and W.J. Ussery.

In 1888 Rev. H.J. Sorrels still was the pastor, with 86 members. 

Around 1890 Fellowship Baptist church was dismissed from Rock Mills Baptist 
Association.

Early members surnames:
Albright
Allen
Arnett 
Bishop
Bradshaw
Breed
Crouch 
Folsom 
Gladney 
Henry
Hudson
Jones
Mayfield
Phillips
Pound
Shephard 
Smith
Ussery

Rev. C.J. Burden was born May 25, 1851, Randolph County. He was baptized
into fellowship at Bethel in Chambers County on March 29, 1867. He was 
ordained in 1867 at Bethel in Chambers County. He first pastored Rock 
Mills Baptist Church in 1876. He later pastored High Shoals, Lystra, Bethel
Hickory Flats and Fellowship Baptist church. 


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