By: Barbara W. Carruth

Appeared in The Lamar Leader July 21, 1999

Appeared in The Lamar Democrat August 25, 1999

I welcome any comments that you might have about this column. I want it to be our ‘ Lamar County Kin". Several called me with information after last week’s article. Through this column I hope that we can all learn more about our past, places of interest and people in our Lamar County.

The Shiloh North Methodist Church located in the Lost Creek Community ( also known as the Shiloh North Community ), about 5 miles northwest of Sulligent, Alabama, records date back to 1881. The church was one of a seven church circuit. According to the Detroit United Methodist Church history, the circuit consisted of the Center Point, Detroit, Ebenezer, Henson Springs, Shiloh North, Pine Springs and Wesley Chapel Churches. The Detroit Church was located in Detroit. The Ebenezer Church was located on County Road 19 near the border of the Lamar and Marion County line. The Henson Springs Church was located near the intersection of County Road 16 and River Road. The Center Point Church was across the Mississippi State Line in the Sipsey Fork Community. The Ebenezer, Henson Springs and Center Point Churches do not exist today. In 1913, the seven church circuit was reduced to a four church circuit known as the Detroit Circuit.

Today Shiloh North is not part of a circuit but has a full time pastor.

In the minutes of a Church Conference that was held at Shiloh Church on December 22, 1895, Robert Wilson was pastor. The Church is listed as the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of the Jasper District North Alabama. William C Evans was elected Secretary. Brother Tom Evans, Class Leader, made his report that two class meetings had been held with reasonably good success. J. C. Mozley, Superintendent of Sunday School, made his report that the School was doing well and that literature of their own church was being used and would continue through the winter. The Stewards had no report. The next Church Conference was set for the fourth Sunday in February 1896.

Shiloh North Church hasn’t always been at its present location. The church was located near the Carden barn, but in the early 1900’s, the woods nearby were being burned , as was a common practice in that day. The fire burned out of control and the church building was destroyed. Worship services were held at the Shiloh School , which was located across the creek until a new building could be built.

According to a letter written by the late Mrs. Ruby Walden Wright to the Church, everyone in the community came together and made plans for a new church building. The lumber for the building was sawed by her husband, William D.

(Dick ) Wright and hauled to Sulligent where it was dried and finished. The men in the community all helped in some way and of course the women did too, with cooking for the men, while they worked and after completion of the new building, cleaning and making ready for services to be held. The new church was finished around 1920.

It has been a tradition for revival services to begin the second Sunday of August each year.

Lum was the son of Euphania Lucindy/Lucinda HICKS and likely his

father was Pleasant HICKS (cousins?), and he was b. in 1874 AL (likely

in Jefferson Co AL).

Liz's parents were LeRoy/Lee Roy PRICE and Mary ROBINSON Price.

Both Leroy and Mary died in Lamar Co AL and are buried at Liberty

Freewill Babtist Church Cemetery located near Crossville in Lamar Co.

Mary was b. 1851, d. 1929. Leroy was b. 1842, d. 1902.

Mary Robinson Price's parents were David ROBERTSON/ROBINSON,

b. ca 1823 d./disappered 1860 and Adeline SNELL Robertson/Robinson,

b. 22 April 1822 SC?, d. 8 June 1895 and is also buried at same cemetery

as her daughter, Mary Price, in Lamar Co AL.

The deed for the Blooming Grove Church in Lamar Co AL was signed by

George Robertson on behalf of his mother, Adeline Robertson, who donated

the land for the church.

I'd be happy to exchange and share info about any of my direct

ancestors listed above, plus others not listed who were siblings, grandchildren, etc.

Thanks ever so much. Bless you.

F. L. Sandy Cooper

MS B,

I am looking for info on a Tom Sandlin that married a Martha Beard. They

had 3 children. I would appreciate any info I can get about them. Also my great grandmother Zelphia A. Davis had a brother William"Buck" Davis that married Hester Jane Noe b 1845 d abt 1891 in Indian

Territory. I would love to swap info about them if these names fit into anyone’s family history

Thank you,

Tracie

Hi, my name is Helen Box, I am researching the Box and Bickerstaff families , they came from the Sulligent, Al. area. I live in Liberal, Ks.

Husband of 52 yrs. 3 children , 9 grandchildren and 6 greatgrandchildren. I was a Fox and married Harold Eugene Box in Ada, Ok. in 1947. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Sincerely, Helen

If you have information on the above queries,or if you have a query that you would like posted here in this newspaper or on the Lamar County Kin Web Page, you can call me at 205 698 9427 after 7:00 p.m., write me at P. O. Box 579, or email me at coco@fayette.net.

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