Randolph County AlArchives Church Records.....Union Baptist
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History of Union Baptist Church
Township 18, Range 11, Section 33/34
Old 431 Randolph County Alabama 

Information enclosed in [brackets] is family information added. 


Union Baptist Church was organized and constituted and joined the Arbacoochee 
Baptist Association in 1854 with eleven charter members.
In the 1890's Joseph D. Hadley, John W. Martin, Thomas E. Disharoon and Charles. 
G. Wilder were delegates for Union in the Arbacoochee 
Baptist Association. Rev. Alexander Pierce Key was a Baptist preacher of the 
Arbacoochee Association he served as Chairman, also was
the paster at Union Baptist Church for a time. 

John F. Stewart gave 5 acres of land for the church & cemetery. The first church 
was of log construction and in the same
general location in current church is today. Later a frame building of 
unfinished lumber was erected in 1908. Pictures of 
church through the years hangs in the current building. 

The two first graves are said to be Tom Stewart [Brother to John Frank Stewart] 
and Joe Stewart [Nephew of John Frank Stewart] both died in 1854. 

Church Record: 

We find that Union Church was constituted about the year of our Lord Eighteen 
hundred and fifty-Six and we believe a correct
record kept of all acting and doings of the church up to the fourth of July 
Eighteen hundred and seventy-seven when by accident
the dwelling of Brother J. W. Watwood the churches clerk was burned all of the 
Church records were destroyed in that fire. 

We the committee appointed to revise the church book beg leave to present the 
following:

Elizabeth Avery [Elizabeth Poore mother-in-law of George French?] 
Bluford Levings [Levens] [Died before 1860] [He is buried Levens Chapel Church 
Cemetery] [Known then as "Levens Graveyard"]
Martha Levings [Levens] [She is buried Levens Chapel] [Known then as "Levens 
Graveyard"]
Wm. Loveless Sr. [William Loveless was born 21 Dec 1792 in SC and died 20 Mar 
1873. His wife Caroline Carlton was born ca 1813 
she died ca 1883/1884 in Randolph County AL] [They are possibly buried in Union 
Cemetery] 
Jas. Loveless 
Levy Loveless 
Wm. Loveless Jr. [Died Civil War]
Ezekial Motes [Listed on 1870 Census, not listed on the 1875 Randolph County tax 
sale] [Note: His unmarried daughter is
[listed in the death records buried in the Fowler Cemetery Randolph County AL]
Jas. T. Wright [James Tidwell Wright was born 11 Sep 1800 he died 17 Dec 1875. 
He is buried in Union Cemetery] 

Annexed are the names of the deceased members prior to the loss of the records 
or as near as can be ascertained to wit

Committee:
G.W. French [George W. French]
J.P. Lee [Polk Lee was the son-in-law of James T. Wright]
J.W. Martin [John W. Martin] [Son-in-law of Jesse Levens]
Jas. G. Smith. C.C.
J.W. Stewart


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