Ann, From "The Mississippi Historical Society, Volume X, pages 203-221" is mention of a Rev. Jacob Rickhow as the third Presbyterian minister who permanently settled in the Territory. He came to Natchez in 1810 and the began preaching in the eastern part of Jefferson County in 1811, this is where he started Ebenezer Church. When you contact Presbyterian Historical Society in Montreat, N.C. you might want to also ask if there is anymore information on him as perhaps there was some members lists in some writings about this man. Ebenezer was apparently the seventh Presbyterian church and was located in what was called the Scotch Settlement. Names mentioned in connection to Ebenezer from the above sited work where as follows: Dougal Torrey, Daniel Cameron, Lockland Currie, Robert Willis, George Torrey. Several of these families from the original Ebenezer congregation formed the eighth Presbyterian church which was Union church. You might want to see what records are available on Union church as well since these churches may have had committee meetings or sent members together to a Synod meeting, etc.. Don't rule out other churches in the area as often families belonged to more than one. Mary > All I have is that my husband's great grandfather Archibald David Vaughan > was christened/baptized at Ebenezer Church. I assume since he was raised by > his Aunt's family of Wise, it was Presbyterian as they were. >

Ann & Mary, There is frequent mention of Ebenezer Church in the Susan Sillars Darden's diary. Susan Darden often mentions that Mr. Darden and the girls either went to church in Fayette or to Ebenezer Church In a few places she mentions the name of the preacher who was preaching at the time in the 1850s and 1860s. In the late 1800s and well into the last century (until he died in 1934) it is highly probably that Rev. C. W. Grafton, who had the Union Church Presbyterian Church, also preached from time to time at both the Ebenezer and the Oldenburg Presbyterian Churches. Rev. Grafton baptised one of my cousins at the Oldenburg church in 1920. The Bellhaven College in Jackson, MS may have information on Ebenezer Church. I found a book of records on the Union Church Presbyterian Church printed in Richmond, VA in the 1930s in the Mormon Library in Salt Lake City in 1991. This was a real surpise. I think there was supposed to have been a cemetery at the Ebenezer Church, but I fdon't find it in Ann Brown's wonderful books. Tony Miller in Calabasas, CA