Mt. Pleasant Cemetery

Franklin County, Illinois

Church and Family History Research Assistance for Primitive Baptist Churches in Franklin County, Illinois CHURCHES: MT. PLEASANT Mt. Pleasant Church was organized on July 11, 1829, at the home of John Browning. Elders Isaac Herring and Robert Moore formed the presbytery. The fourteen charter members were David Farris, Louisa Farris, James Eubanks, Cynthia Eubanks, John Bradley, John Browning, John Sandusky, Mumford Williams, Nancy Browning, W. R. Browning, Elizabeth Ann Browning, Polly King, Patsy Browning, and Jane Browning. On the fourth weekend in October 1829, Mt. Pleasant was one of ten churches which organized the Bethel Association. The church met, at first, in a log cabin, in Browning township, at the Spring Settlement. Elder Achilles Coffey, in his "History of the Regular Baptists," p. 74, refers to Mt. Pleasant Church having declared non-fellowship with the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions and requesting the other churches of Bethel Association to do the same, which was done in 1832. But in 1838, when the question was submitted to the churches again, Mt. Pleasant, Unity, and Ten Mile Creek withdrew and formed an association of their own, called Bethel United Baptist Association. In 1840, Mt. Pleasant Church divided, and the part of the church which followed Elder Vance, joined with Ten Mile, and a faction of Bethlehem, and formed the Franklin Association at East Fork Church. The majority of Mt. Pleasant Church joined with Unity Church and attempted to organize a new association called Bethel United Baptist (the Bethel Association mentioned above having adopted the name Regular Baptist). This part of Mt. Pleasant Church included Elder Robert Moore and wife, John Overturf and wife, James Eubanks, John McCarver and wife, Wille Jones and wife, Levi McDaniel and wife, J. K. Browning and wife, Wilson Rea, Elizabeth Rea, Shadrach Mooneyham and wife, Shadrach Mooneyham Sr., William Mooneyham, David Boyd, Rhoda Long, Sister Billam, Matilda Jones, Isaiah Youngblood, Asa Ward and wife, and James Browning. The records indicate that Elder Robert Moore preached a limited atonement, and that a majority of the church upheld him in doing so. The "Bethel United Baptist Association" which they organized was short-lived, and the church itself went out of existence. SURNAMES OF MEMBERS: Billam, Boyd, Bradley, Browning, Eubanks, Farris, Jones, King, Long, McCarver, McDaniel, Mooneyham, Moore, Overturf, Rea, Sandusky, Ward, Williams, Youngblood (very incomplete list due to loss of records). ADDITIONAL RESOURCE SOURCES FROM THE PRIMITIVE BAPTIST LIBRARY: Minutes of the Little River, Muddy River and Bethel Associations. Minutes of Middle Fork of Muddy River Church. Manuscript records of Salem Church. Copyright c. 2001-2009. All rights reserved. The Primitive Baptist Library. www.carthage.lib.il.us/community/churches/primbap/FamHist-Franklin.html This information furnshed with permission of Robert L. Webb / The Primitive Baptist Library.

		D E N N I S
		Robert M. 1866 - 1911		Florence S. 1870 - 1898

FATHER
Arthur L. HATCHETT
May 10, 1908
July 19, 1964

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John HATCHETT
ILLINOIS
PVT 133 FLD ARTY 36 DIV
WORLD WAR I
Aug. 25, 1902 - Aug. 16, 1951

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MOTHER
Lou Eva MOORE
1878 - 1936