BARNESVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH

1871 October 21 “…A majority of all the members then belonging to the Barnesville Baptist Church assembled in the said church. Rev. Joseph H. Jones was called to the pastoral care of the church for one year. Brother R. T. White was elected Deacon and Brother Wm. O. Sellman as Assistant Deacon. Brother Samuel Darby was elected Church Clerk”. Rev. Joseph H. Jones was pastor for two months at the church he called his “monument” until his death.

Original Church building prior to Sunday School addition

1872 May 2 Rev. William M. Davis of Loudoun County, Virginia was declared pastor of the church for one year.

1872 June 8 “Articles of Incorporation. On June 8, 1872, the church shall be known by the name of the Barnesville

Baptist Church, and the name of the Corporation shall be “The Trustees of the Barnesville Baptist Church in Montgomery County Maryland” and may have and use a common seal. It was signed by Wm. M. Davis, Pastor and Samuel Darby, Church Clerk. The Justice of the Peace was S. S. Hays.

1873-1874 John W. Marsh as Pastor

1878-1886 Hillary E. Hatcher as Pastor

1887-1888 James H. Wright as Pastor

1887 September Barnesville Baptist agreed to pay the pastor $250 a year for two sermons per month on the 2^nd and 4^th

Sundays.

1891-1892 L. R. Milbourne as Pastor

1892-1900 S. R. White as Pastor

1892 June 12 Barnesville Baptist appointed four delegates and three alternates to the Western District Baptist

Association to be held June 14 at Upper Seneca Baptist Church.

1896 October Barnesville Baptist voted to give $10 to the association, $10 to foreign missions, and $5 to home

missions. The women gave $3 to foreign missions and $3 to home missions.

1900 Lewis Jones as Pastor

1901 J. L. Lodge as Pastor

1902 R. S. Owens as Pastor

1904->1906 R. A. Smith as Pastor

1905 June 9 Barnesville Baptist sent delegates to the Western District

Baptist Association meeting at Rockville Baptist Church.

from The Washington Post, June 13, 1905, page 5.

1906 January 14 “Rev. R. A. Smith, pastor of the Baptist Church at Barnesville,

this county, has gone to Cumby, Tex., where he will spend

about a month visiting his parents.”

from The Washington Post of that date, page 6.

1909-1911 F. B. Cowell as Pastor

1916 E. C. Burke as Pastor

1917 P. Rowland Wagner as Pastor

ca. 1910s J. C. McFadden as Pastor

1926 S. A. Shaver as Pastor

1928 James M. Coleman as Pastor

1928 October 14 First Homecoming Celebration

1930-1931 H. H. Nicol as Pastor

1930 April 20 electric lights first used

1931-1933 H. M. Hall as Pastor

1933 Women’s Missionary Union (WMU) formed

1933-1936 H. Marvin Flinn as Pastor

Rev. R.A. Smith

Church History from the 1930s:

“Brother H. Mortimer Hilton began the Sunday School with a class of three boys and lived to see a flourishing school of seventy-five scholars before he passed to his reward. The success of the Sunday School is greatly due to the faithfulness of Bro. E. T. Dixon its Superintendent.”

“The Women’s Missionary Society has worked earnestly, having sent supplies to the frontier Indian pastors as well as to China and other foreign fields in its earlier efforts and now contribute regularly to the Cooperative Program.”

1937 Herbert Cooper of Rockville preached

1945-1947 Rev. William Herman Lewis as Pastor

1947-1949 Thomas A. Fleming as Pastor

1950-1952 William F. Shoup as Pastor

1950-1969 Rev. Horace DuBois as Pastor

1954 April 25 Groundbreaking service for Sunday

School addition held

1956 April 1 Sunday School wing finished in time for

use on Easter Sunday

1969-1994 Rev. Jeddie DeFries as Pastor

1972 May 31 Church constitution written

1995-2000 Rev. Blaine Welker as Pastor

1996 Sept. 22 125^th Anniversary Celebration

2001 June Church called Rev. Joe Ivey to be Pastor

and Mr. Randy Gilliam to be Associate

Pastor

2001 Nov. First ordination of a licensed preacher:

Rev. Randy Gilliam

2002 Sept. 15 New Church Constituti0n ratified

Rev. William Herman Lewis

Rev. Horace DuBois

Rev. Jeddie DeFries