At 12:46 PM 9/4/98 -0700, dorothy vaughn wrote: >W Churches of Casey County W >Mt.Calvary Baptist Church > > The Middlesburg Baptist Church was the mother of Mt. Calvary Baptist Church. Two Spirits filled the Baptist > >evangelists, John Sallee and Thos. Coleman [not related to the Casey County Colemans] came to Calvary Ridge > >and held a revival in the old log school house about 1873.It was attended largely and remembered.They kept > >having church until the weatherboarded church was built in 1912. It was the first church dedicated there. > > Later two other church houses were built there.A cement block one in 1943 was built by Herbert "Hub" Carman > >and crew. It got to leaning and in 1958 and 1959 they tore it down to the foundation and built another one. > >It is the present brick there now. > > Of course they dedicated each church that was built. > > Herbert Creech Carman, Hub Carman's son, is a present deacon. > > The present teachers are: Men, Gary Anderson;Women,Linda Gosser;Young Married, Bro. Gale Durham; > >Intermediate,Jeff Bastin; Juniors, Twyla Goforth;Primary,Donna Carman;Beginners,Jenna Carman. > >The Sunday school superintendent is Dwight Black. > > They have had all-day Sunday gatherings at the church, singing, preaching on the grounds about once a year. > >Mt. Calvary will celebrate its 125th anniversary with a homecoming on Sunday,Sept.13. > > The pastors have been,E.L. Carman, Joe Echenroth, Duane Smallwood, A.G. Coker, Rev. Comstock. > >K.G. Martin, Melvin Minitor, Rev. Witt, George Lay, Hershel Luttrell, Lester Phelps, Robert Lanham, George > >Brown, Ralph Boots, Lonnie Hayes, T.M. Browning, Gerney York, George Anderson, Leonard Williams, > >Shirley H. Carman, Wayne Stephens, and Robert Bullock. Gale Durham is the present pastor. > > > HOW ABOUT THE SALEM UNITED METHODIST CHURCH AT SALEM. MY GRANDMOTHER-GRANDFATHER-AUNTS AND UNCLES AND ggGRANDMOTHER ARE BUIRED THERE. BENNY B. MULLINIX > >