Lone Pine Church of God, Livingston Parish, Louisiana
File prepared by D.N. Pardue



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From the book entitled "The Free State - A History and Place-Names Study
of Livingston Parish" by the members of the Livingston Parish American
Revolution Bicentennial Committee in cooperation with the Livingston 
Parish Police Jury and the Louisiana American Revolution Bicentennial
Commission, 1976.  Reprinted by permission.  Dedicated to the memory of
Reuben Cooper and Raymond Riggs.

LONE PINE CHURCH OF GOD is a fundamentalist church located three miles 

west of Albany on US Hwy. 190.  A number of Albany area residents were

converted to this particular faith during the meetings conducted from 

1908 to 1918 by Rev. Willis M. Brown and other ministers.

     One of the converts, Edward Sherman Kinchen, traded Bolivar Thomp-

son six acres of his land north of Albany for three-quarters of an

acre situated behind the old Albany school east of the Albany-Springfield

road.  A small church was erected on this land in 1921.

     In 1926 the congregation decided to move and erect another chapel

west of Albany on land sold them by the Brakenridge Lumber Company.

The one-acre site contained a prominent pine tree which gave the new

chapel its name.  The present building was constructed in 1952, but

the church members went to great lengths to save the pine tree when the

highway department widened the road.

     The tree was struck by lightning in June, 1972 and cut down the 

following October. -- Clark Forrest, Jr.

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