CROWVILLE METHODIST CHURCH, Franklin Parish, LA

Submitted by DeWanna Lindo

 02-Nov-2001

Source: Birds Eye View of Crowville by: Crowville Chapter FHA 1976



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CROWVILLE METHODIST CHURCH





The Crowville Methodist Church was organized in 1913 by Rev.

D.C. Barr, one of Louisiana's beloved ministers of the past.

Sunday school and worship services were held in the Crowville

School house at the crosssroads of Highway 17 and Highway 577.

Sunday school was taught every Sunday afternoon about five

o'clock. Those attending the school were of all faiths; thus

it was called Union Sunday School. The first Sunday School

superintendent was J.F. Rutledge; the first pastor was brother

Thompson. Charter members of the church include the following:

Mr. W.T. Donnell, Mrs. Annie Huff, Mrs. Lou Johnson, Mrs. Nolan

Moore, and Mrs. R.S. Donnell.



March 2, 1916, Mrs. Fannie L. Copeland, widow of James S. Copeland, 

donated one-half acre of land, the present site of the Crowville

United Methodist Church, to the Crowville United Methodist Episcopal 

Church South.  Mr. George Crow, an agent of Natchez, Mississippi,

represented Mrs. Copeland in this transaction.  The trustees named

in the transfer of land were J.M. Walters, W.T. Donnell, O.L. Calhoun,

and J.F. Rutledge.  The one-half acre of land is located in the

northeast corner of the four-acre lot sold by George Crow to

J.S. Copeland December 28, 1899, in section 31T, 15N R 9E, being

one acre east and west and one-half acre north and south.



The Crowville Methodist Church on November 1, 1952, elected

committees for planning, locating, anf financing a parsonage.

The parsonage property was located at the present site of the home

of Mrs. Lula Simmons. This land was purchased for $5.00 from

Mr. Ellis G. Grube, who signed a deed to transfer the property to

the Crowville Methodist Church on April 4, 1953. Representing

Crowville Methodist Church was its Board of Trustees-- Chairman

John W. Baker, T.M. Clark, Webb McManus, Marshall Wright, A. Lawrence,

N.A. Miller, and A.L. McPhile. A parsonage was established for the church.



Mrs. Mamie Bush willed her home to the Louisiana Methodist Orphanage in

Ruston Louisiana. On November 6, 1956, G.M. Pomeroy suggested that

Crowville Methodist Church parsonage be exchanged for the home of

Mrs. Mamie Bush. A resolution was made on August 1957, by the

Board of Directors of the Louisiana Methodist Orphanage, that an

exchange of land with Crowville Methodist Church be made.  The

resolution was adopted on May 13, 1958. In the land transaction the

church was represented by Chairman A.J. Collier, John C. Carson,

Cecil W. Biggs, and Claude McManus.



The following is the resolution of this church which was passed 

October 1968 during the construction of the new building.





RESOLUTION



At a meeting of the congregation of the United Methodist Church of

Crowville, Louisiana, being an official Board Meeting with the

majority of the members being present the following resolution

was offered and adopted and approved, to wit:



Be it resolved the Methodist Church of Crowville, Louisiana, secure

a loan from Crowville Branch, Franklin State bank and Trust Co., of 

Crowville, Louisiana, in the amount of $29,785.74 for the purpose

of constructing the New Church Buildidng and Sunday School classes.

This loan is to be paid off at $3,900.00 plus interest a year 

beginning and annually thereafter until paid at 6% interest.



For purpose of security the church is offering a valid first

mortgage on all of the property of the United Methodist Church 

of Crowville, Louisiana.



Be it furtheer resolved that the three trustees: Douglas Wray,

Charles Clay, and Mrs B.P. Parker, empowered to negotiate said

loan and to sign all necessary and required papers, notes, and

mortgages, to consumate the said loan and to sign any renewals

or extension that may come due.



Done and passed by the United Methodist Church of Crowville,

Louisiana, in regular meeting of the Official Board held this

6th. day of October, 1968.



Attest: (Bobbie Vickers) 

	Secretary of Meeting



				Rev. Bob Burgess, Pastor



I, Linda Love, Recording Steward of the meeting of the Official

Board of the United Methodist Church of Crowville, Louisiana, do

hereby certify that the above resolution is a true and correct

copy, passed, and adopted at a meeting of the said Official

Board of said church held October 6, 1968, according to the

minutes of said meeting and the records of said church.



Signed this 6th. day of October, 1968.