OAK GROVE CHUCH cont. #2 These same letters noted that John Carol (sic0 (Carroll) was ordained in the Methodist Church 24 August 1844. Presumably this was Oak Grove. Oak Grove Church was located in the SW 1/4 of NW 1/4 of Section 10, Township 6 North Range 21 West. The church yard actually was just over the line in Section 9. Bordering its southern edge was Pole Creek. This land was filed by James Sanner Jones and his family in 1841. People often lived on land without filing for years, since the land office was then in Clarksville, ArkansasJust over in Section 9, Phillip Delph resided. He had got his land as Military Bounty while serving with the Second Tennessee Volunteers, Richardson County Militia. Also in Section 9 lived Macon Sibiscus Cox, a Methodist of long standing in Tennessee. In Section 11, Jacob Cowger, a Methodist from Oxford, Mississippi, brought his family early.From Gallatin, Tennessee, Henry Gambling and his son in law, Thomas J. Daniels came as Methodist and leaders to contribute their efforts to Christianity. In the spring of 1847, W. L. Gutherie was appointed to te Dardanelle circuit. In 1851, the Rev. J. P. Cole, was assigned tot he circuit, with Mt. Zion, _t. Pisgah and Lake View. By 1859, _____Davis was the Circuit Rider to Oak Grove and Crossroads. This latter church was commonly known as Fields Chapel. Mrs. Lizzie Morgan recalls having attended church here in 1893. A man named Crow while very old showed me writing of the finist penmanship which he _aid he learned while attending school in this old church. He had come from Prairie View to this church. All that remains of the original church is a pile of stone and 61 unmarked graves. It is possible there may be more. Unknown now they may be to mortal man, but their names are indellibly inscribed in the Eternal Book of Life. The author is unknown, this was in the papers of M. V. Adney, grandfather of Julius Adney. The papers are in the possession of Julius and Maxine Carrel Adney. <continued>