Earliest Known Union Parish Louisiana Churches Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 3/2005 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ ================================================================================== Earliest Known Union Parish Louisiana Churches Prepared by T. D. Hudson ================================================================================== We have no record of the religion of the earliest European inhabitants of what is now Union Parish Louisiana. The Honeycutts, Farmers, Colvins, Lyles, and Feazels, who all arrived between 1790 and 1814, probably had to attend religious services in Ouachita Parish. Even as late as 1830, there is no record of but a handful of permanent white settlers in the region. However, this changed with the re-opening of the Ouachita Land Office in Monroe in 1835 (it had originally opened in the summer of 1826, but not much land in present-day Union or Lincoln Parishes was sold between 1828 and 1834). By 1836, settlers began to pour in the "Piney Hills" from Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. Since the above-mentioned earliest inhabitants settled in the region around the modern communities of Downsville and Point, it is likely that they may have formed a Baptist Church there. However, no record of any such church has yet been found. ================================================================================== The following list gives the earliest-known documented churches established within Union Parish. ================================================================================== ================================================================================== Ward's Chapel Protestant Methodist Church Established between 1837 and the early 1840s ================================================================================== ================================================================================== Liberty Hill (originally Pleasant Hill) Primitive Baptist Church Established between 1837 and the early 1840s ================================================================================== ================================================================================== Good Hope Baptist Church Established in the latter 1830s or early 1840s ================================================================================== ================================================================================== Concord Baptist Church Established in 1842 ================================================================================== ================================================================================== Farmerville Methodist Church Established in 184 ================================================================================== ================================================================================== Zion Hill Baptist Church Established in 1844 ================================================================================== ================================================================================== Liberty Baptist Church Established in the 1840s ================================================================================== ================================================================================== Good Hope Primitive Baptist Church Established in the latter 1840s ================================================================================== ================================================================================== Spearsville (originally Fellowship) Baptist Church Established in 1848 ================================================================================== ================================================================================== New Hope Primitive Baptist Church Established in the latter 1840s ================================================================================== ================================================================================== Shiloh Baptist Church Established in 1849 ================================================================================== ================================================================================== Springhill Baptist Church Established in 1849 ================================================================================== ###########################################################