"All the organizing members of Mulberry church are not known today, however, the following four names has been handed down within the community,as being members of the original twenty: Henry Greggs,James Davenport, Mrs. Patty Campbell and Joseph Williams.After reading the family glimpses contained in this history, the reader may satisfy himself as to the identity of some of the other twenty members."Immediately after the church was organized, the members constructed a church building, which was located several hundred yards westward from the present building.It was constructed from the only materials available at the time..It was a log building with split log benches.Stones gathered from the clearings were used to build a large fireplace for heating. It was covered with boards, said to be rived from short sections of logs and the floors were earthen.Most all these members were of the Baptist faith..some having been active in their former homelands....all belonging to the old school of Baptists, holding firmly at this time to the Primitive Baptist faith..There is a history of the church handed down within this community that the church was constituted with the guidance and prayers of a baptist minister, named Cockrell...but records were so scarce in the first few months of the church's history...this is not found as yet in th history of Mulberry.. The original minutes of the Cahawba Association of Baptist Churches show that William Harrod was the pastor for the years,1819-1823.The Cahawba Valley Baptist Church, also in Cahawba or Bibb county was organized in 1817, with Moses Crowson as it's first pastor.When other churches were organized in the area in 1818..he invited these churches to send messengers to his church, for the purpose of organizing a Baptist Association of Churches. Most of the churches responded, including Mulberry, and the meeting was set for Oct.2 1818. About noon on that date, the meeting got underway with pastor Crowson preaching the intro sermon, since the assembly of delegates had chosen him as moderator and Willis Davis as clerk. Moses Crowson chose as his sermon...the 32nd verse of the 12th chapter, of Luke. During these sessions of this organizational meeting, an association of these Baptist churches was formed called "The Cahawba Association of Baptist Churches" Here, the book sites the facets of the baptist belief at that time, and then it contains a long quotation from the pen of Hosa Holcombe concerning the creation of the Cahawba Association of Baptists Churches, mentioning ten churches...Mulberry, Bethel (Cahawba County) Enon, Ebenezer (Stanton) Bethel (Tuscaloosa County), Cahawba Valley, Union, Alabama, Salem and Canaan.The whole number of members, 259...and the ministers (from the minutes) were Wm. Callaway, Nathan Roberts,James Baines,and Moses Crowson. Chosen as licentiates: Henry Haggard,John Tubb,Thomas Kerb, and John Henry...with pastor Crowson and clerk Willis Davis. More later...Stella P.S. It is so interesting to note how many of these surnames were still in the community as I grew up close to Maplesville. The Greggs were still in Stanton, area...(dropped the s, although later on, the book mentions they left Mulberry for Shelby County) as well as the Harrods at Plantersville.(we pronounced it Herrod) Haggard at Maplesville, and Davis at Stanton.And...of course...WILLIAMS! I graduated with a beautiful Williams girl. I won't mention the year...~~gr~~