This is copied from The History of Casey Counry Churches 1798 - 1985 by Paul Patton. I made a copy of the Caney Fork Church only , maybe this may be of interest to someone. Caney Fork Baptist Church by Ada Delk Edwards In 1904,C.P. Brown and his wife Mary made a deed to W.T. Wilson, J.T. Wilson and J.J. Long as Trustees of the Caney Fork Baptist Church. The sum was of $1 and for the further consideration of assisting the neighborhood in the erection of a church for the use of the Baptists, the Methodists, the Christians, and the United Brethren. The parcel of land described in the deed of conveyance was diagonally across the road from the Caney Fork Cemetery and contained 1/2 acre. The deed, dated Sept.10, 1904 and filed Aug.28,1906 is recorded in deed book 26,page 620. Prior to this there was a log building which served as a school and a church located to the John B. and Sallie Edwards farm which is presently owned by Pallas Wesley. The seats in the building were made of spilt logs. The first building on the land obtained from G.P. and Mary Brown was built by the community and served, as the deed provided, as a community church. This building was used for about 20 years. When the congreation decided to replace this building, Mr. Bud Cochran was hired to be the chief carpenter and to oversee the construction of the building. Members of the church and neighbors donated labor and materials. During the construction of this building, a brush arbor was built and hundreds of people came to the revival which was held. Seats from the old church were used along along with boards placed on blocks of wood to accommodate the crowds. Horses and buggies filled the wooded area. Aunt Sallie Atwood lived about four miles from from the arbor and being 80 years old,she drove her horse and buggy beside the arbor every night to hear singing and preaching. The brush arbor was used for Sunday services as well as the revival while the church was under construction. John T. Brown, a Separate Baptist preacher and a member of Caney Fork Church was the leading spirit of the church throughout his life. He was superintendent of Sunday School and song leader for many years. In later years, Bro.Brown's grandson, Cleavie Edwards served for a number of years as song leader, teacher and superintendent. Through the years of it's existence the church was served by the following minsters: J.P. Campbell, Tom Zachery, Bro. Toms, J.T.Brown, W.H.Patton, N.T.Patton, Tom Lawhorn, ArvilOverstreet, John Caudill, Elmer Stevens, Dave Sharp, Jim Brown, Tom Atwood, Arvil Allen, Clell Warren. Harry Franklin and Oris Bailey. For years there was a strong Sunday School with large attendance, Among the teachers were Hazel Brown and Theda Phillips. Music was always an important feature of worship. During the ministry of W.H.Patton there was a large youth choir who would ding choruses during every service,especially at the revivals. The C.A. Langford family well known gospel singers, were a part of the Caney Fork congreation. There were many outstanding revivals. Some of the best remembered by W.H. Patton,N.T. Patton, Harry Franklin and a Bro.Maddox. In later years interest in the Caney Fork Church began to wane and people drifted to other congrations. Regular services ceased to be held during the 1950's. The building fell into a sad state of repair. The last funeral conducted in the old church was that of Vertie C. Edwards in July 1961 with Bro. Wilmer Ellis officiating. Sometime around 1965, Bro.W.H. Patton and a group from the West Side Christian Church in Liberty came to Caney Fork and held a few services on Sunday afternoon but there was not sufficient interest in the community to reorganize either the Sunday School or church. These were the last services to be held at Caney Fork. *- J.T.[John Thomas] Brown is the Father of Sallie Brown Edwards wife/of John B Edwards ,his grandson Clevie Edwards/son of John B & Sallie Edwards and Vertie C Edwards wife/of Cleavie Edwards. The Brown and Edwards families are my husband, Marshall Vaughn's family.