This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RgB.2ACE/243.2.1 Message Board Post: Hi, St. Mary's Church was a Methodist Church. It does not exist today. The name of the church now is Hilltop Baptist Church. As for the records, I am sure that someone out there knows about them. I am sorry I do not know anything about if the church had an orphanage. But more than likely it did not. It is a very small church in the rural area of Monroe Co. just outside the McMinn Co. line. >From the Monroe Co. Heritage Book; The first church was a Lutheran Church and was built in 1853. Land was donated by John Kinser a Lutheran. They had a German speaking minister in the beginning. You might write to the Church and ask them; Hillstop Baptist Church Old Athens Rd. Madisonville, TN 37354