Robeson County NcArchives Church Records.....Corinth Missionary Baptist Church
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CORINTH MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH

            Corinth Missionary Baptist Church of the Robeson Baptist
Association was constituted in the year 1926.  In November 1926 one
acre of land in Howellsville, present day East Howellsville Township
in eastern Robeson County was deeded to the church Trustees, and it
was on this land whereon a house of worship was erected.  The church
was located at the intersection of the old Currie Road, now Ivey Road,
and Wilson’s Short Cut Road, now Benny Road.

   After her organization the church convened together and adopted
Covenant and the Baptist Confession of Faith.  Later, the church
petitioned the Robeson Baptist Association for membership. On October
27th, 1926 “E. F. Sullivan, of the committee on new churches, made
report recommending the reception of Bethel and Corinth churches as
members of the Association”.  During this year the church reported to
the association that preaching was held on the 3rd Sunday of each
month, and there were a total of 16 members. Delegates to the
association were J. W. Faircloth and J. E. Allen.  J. W. Faircloth was
listed as Church Clerk; Roosevelt Allen, Treasurer; and, J. D. Baxley,
Superintendent.

   On November 20th, 1926 Agatha Jane Allen and Sara C. Allen, for the
sum of $1.00 deeded one acre of land in Howellsville Township to Edgar
Allen and John Baxley Trustees for the Corinth Missionary Baptist
Church.  This land is now East Howellsville Township, in the fork of
the Currie Road and Wilson Short Cut Road.  Today these roads are
known as the Ivey and Benny Roads.  This original deed also made a
provision that “”the following tract or lot of land to be used for
church purposes and no other, and when it ceases to be used for a
church site it is to revert to the said parties of the first part”…

   During the 1927 annual meeting of the Robeson Baptist Association
the pastor of the church was listed as being Rev. Alexander Baxley of
Saint Pauls, whose annual salary was $100.00.  Delegates to the
association that year were Roosevelt Allen and Robert Patterson.
Church membership was 15, and 1 death occurring in the past church
year.  Sunday School reported 7 teachers and 36 scholars, 43 total.
J. D. Baxley was the Superintendent.

   We find that 1927 was the last record that we can find of the
church’s existence, for were no reports from the church in the
associational minutes of the Robeson Baptist Association starting in
October 1928.  When the church actually dissolved it organization, and
the reason thereof is lost to time; however, it must have been between
the annual meetings of the Robeson Baptist Association of 1927, when
the church gave reports; and, 1928 when the church is no longer listed
in the associational proceedings.

   In the original deed for the land on which the church was erected,
we find a stipulation was  made  concerning  the  land  if  it  ever
ceased to be used as a church, as follows ”the following tract or lot
of land to be used for church purposes and no other, and when it
ceases to be used for a church site it is to revert to the said
parties of the first part”…  It is quite evident that upon the
dissolving of the church that the land reverted back to the original
grantors.

   On December 3rd, 1935 this same property was redeeded by Agatha
Jane Allen and Sarah C. Allen to John D. Baxley and wife Alice B.
Baxley for Ten [$10.00] dollars and other valuable considerations.

   According to one Knox Allen, a descendant of the Baxleys, we learn
that John D. and Alice B. Baxley converted the church into a home in
which they occupied for about forty years.

 Compiled by Sam West, Historian, Robeson Baptist Association


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SOURCES:

Robeson County Register of Deeds, Deed Book 7U, page 386

Robeson County Register of Deeds, Deed Book 8M, page 429

Robeson Baptist Associational Minutes, 1926.

Robeson Baptist Associational Minutes, 1927.

Robeson Baptist Associational Minutes, 1928.

Robeson Baptist Associational Minutes, 1928-1935.

Personal knowledge of Knox Allen, 2013.


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