A Free Will Baptist Church was organized at Prairie City in September, 1857, by ELDER JOHN B. FAST, assisted by ELDERS SHAW and CHRISTIAN, with the following named members: ELDER J. B. FAST and wife, JOHN J. FAST, SAMUEL NESTLEROAD and wife, WILLIAM NESTLEROAD, WILLIAM BOLIN, ADALINE TAINTER, BELCHY MARY WHITE and DAVID S. JOHNSON. A church edifice was erected in 1866-67, costing $5,000. Maple Hill Free Will Baptist Church was organized by REV. T. J. DODGE with tweove members, and for a time held its meetings in the Maple Hill school-house in the southeastern part of Bushnell Township.