Some of the names that are in this churches minutes are:
"Most of these Surnames have been
included in the Weekly minutes"
C.B. Bobo, Otha Willbanks, Mary A.
Willbanks, Eliza Willbanks, Jane Nix, Sarah Nix, Harrison Bailey,
Jason Norman, Kindred Bobo, Charles D. Bailey, Comfort Bobo, Mary
Bailey, Mary Bishop, Francis Dodd, Nancy Dodd, Mariah Norman, C. H.
Bobo, J. N. Bailey, Young Bobo, A. C. Cooper, Lueazer Bobo, Nancy Bobo,
J. P. Bobo, Eliljah Bobo, T. R. Bailey, Frances Bailey, Emilia Buford,
Mary Bailey, Kindred Bishop, Samuel Bishop, Elviry Bailey, Chana Bobo,
E.G. Bailey, J. C. Bobo, James W. Cooper, Amelia C. Cooper, Susan
Bishop, Rachael P. Ducker; Adaline Ducker; Drieucelia Ducker, Chana
Sexton, Lueazer Ducker, Tilmon Bobo, Evaline Bobo, Sara Ann Bobo,
Hiram Bobo, Elisha Bobo, Elizabeth Bobo, Martha Clifton, Dorcas L.
Bailey, Mary Norman, Harrison Dukes, Nancy Bailey, Eligh Bobo,
Elizabeth Bobo, Elijah Wilburn, Margaret Wilburn, Eliser J. Wilbern,
Joseph Foster, Julia Foster, William Geordin, John Gibbs, Franklin
Bailey, Mary Murphy, Mary Bailey, Leanna F. Bobo (alias Sparks),
Amanda Bailey, Charlotte Gibbs, Pickney Gossett, Manly Bobo, Rebecca
Bobo, Martha Bobo, Jesse Norman, D. T. Bobo, Laura A. Chapman alias
Bobo) Elisabeth Wilburn, Eliza Dodd, John Wilbourn, Rev. Wm F. Lee,
Melissa Lee, Hampton Bobo, Wiley Easters, Margaret S. Easters.....
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HISTORY OF NEW PROSPECT BAPTIST CHURCH:
The "conferences
commenced" on July 28, 1849....The member page shows the
Willbanks, as joining Nov. 1, 1849.
"June 23, 1889
conference was held with H.B. Murphy as moderator and a motion was
made to dissolve the church which was passed just as soon as the
property could be disposed of. Then on July 20, 1889, C.B. Bobo
declared New Propect Church to be dissolved."
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The story goes
and I am taking this from a book called The Union Daily Times
History Book, page 7 chapter XI of which I made a partial copy
years back when I first made a trip to Union. The article by
Claude Sparks called "Founding History of Early Baptist
Churches in Union Area: " In the year of 1840, controversy
developed in Padgett Creek Church, which later caused strife and
dissension among the members. The difficulty was related in
the Padgett Creek History by C.B.Bobo. After being excluded by
PCC several members from the minority group left and joined Lower
Fairforest Church, thereby causing considerable friction between the
two churches which lasted for several years. In July 1845 PCC
met in conference and received an instrument of writing signed by 35
of her members stating their withdrawal from the Church.
The church then excluded
them. By 1848, a majority of the ones excluded seem to have
joined Lower Fairforest Church. Then on July 21, 1849, Lower
Fairforest met and granted letters of dismission to seventeen of her
members who then assembled together the following week and organized
the New Prospect Baptist Church. This church was located 2 1/2
miles south from Padgett's Creek Church on land secured from
Harrison Bailey; it being near the old Jesse Norman Home Place.
During the years that this church existed there were about 135
additions to the membership of the church. About 70 of these
members were later dismissed by letter. Just 50 years after
the organization of New Prospect Church, the church was dissolved
and 35 members were granted letters of dismission and a few days
later, the entire group were received as members of Padgett Creek
Church. "
