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Churches, First Baptist First Baptist Church Contents; • 1844-1969 History of First Baptist Church • Recovered Church history.(The church building and records were destroyed in the fire of 1904) • Yazoo County Baptist Association 44"* Annual Session • Dedication Services for New Sanctuary and Educational Building 1957 Location: Vertical Files at B.S. Ricks Memorial Library of the Yazoo Library Association| 310 N. Main Street, Yazoo City, Mississippi 39194 Wiitm o|. YAZOO CITY. MISSISSIPPI (M,1k Jx/iaT Out 1844-i%q Tlut HopCit CkuAck. YAZOO CITY, MISSISSIPPI FROM ITS BEGINNING IN (844 TO THE PRESENT 1464 ON THE OCCASION OF ITS (25^ jAmm/ia COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY LACEY HODGES UNDER AUTHORIZATION OF FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OCTOBER, 1969 / II FOREWORD Whatever records the First Baptist Church of Yazoo City might have had covering the first sixty-two years of its history were lost in the fire that destroyed the church building and parsonage together with the 322 other homes and buildings in Yazoo City on May 25, 1904. The only information available is found in the meager reports that the church had made to the annual meetings of the Union Baptist Association and to the Central Baptist Association, of which the Yazoo City Baptist Church was a member from 1844 until the organization of the Yazoo County Baptist Association in 1921. Grateful acknowledgement is expressed to Dr. J. L. Boyd, His torian of the State Baptist Convention Board; to Ricks Memorial Library, Yazoo City, for complete freedom to review such records as they had available; and to Miss Maude Darrington, Mrs. A. B. Kelly, Sr., Mrs. F. D. Hollowell, Mrs. Zilpia Ingram, Dr. and Mrs. W. D. McCalip, Dr. and Mrs. Webb Brame, Mrs. J. 0. Stricklin, Sr., Mr. Arthur L. Davis, Mr. Ed Carpenter, Mr. John Williams, Mr. John Nesmith and Mr. N. S. Adams for a vast amount of first hand information. Some of these have passed on, but without their contributions this history would have been less complete. All dates and factual statements can be verified and are properly authenticated. Unless otherwise noted, the facts herein are taken from the minutes of the Union Baptist Association, the Central Baptist Association, and the Yazoo County Baptist Association on file in the vaults of the Historical Commission of the Mississippi Baptist Convention, Clinton, Mississippi, and from the minutes of the church now on file in the church office. M 11'^ iv E '•te'F< L'' '&■-r -■■ '■•'• f if :m' =3J .,aJ f.' ,. ; •: , rt:\r V .yit'li I,. :i^-' GROUND-BREAKING CEREMONIES FOR NEW CHURCH - 1956 The people pictured above led in the ceremonies which took place before a fine crowd. Left to right they are; Owen Cooper (Building FIRST HOME OF FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Committee Chairman), Charles Dean of Jackson (Architect), Mr. Wells and Mr. Nickles of Nickles and Wells Construction Co. of The above drawing is made from a description of the first building Jackson (the general contractors for our buildings), Jerry Glower owned by the Yazoo Baptist Church. It was purchased in January (Brotherhood President), Cliff Russell (Building Fund Drive Chair of 1846. This building was occupied by the church for fifty-eight man), Dr. Donald B. Roark (Sunday School Superintendent), A. B. years. Kelly, Jr. (Chairman of the Deacons, holding the gold-plated shovel), Dr. W. C. Fields (who turned the first spade of dirt), Lacey Hodges (member. Building Committee), Dr. Webb Brame (former Pastor), Billy Perry (Trustee), C. E. Mann (88 year old deacon), Charles Jackson (Training Union Director), Mrs. James Edwards(WMU Presi dent), and John Watson (member. Building Committee). Terry Hol- lowell (member, Building Committee) was not in the picture. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -From CHURCH CHIMES, Volume VI, No. 7. February 17, 1956 Tibis siory could never have reached any semblance of completion without the help of a great number of people. Those who have been most helpful are Mrs. Omer Kettleman, Mrs. Barney Potts, Mrs. Wilson Jones, Miss Linda Jenkins, Mrs. James Johnson, Mrs. B. Frank Williams, Miss Susie Bull, Airs. E. L. King, Mrs. R. T. Huxtable, Reverend James Yates, Reverend Eddie Prather. TABLE OF CONTE THE EARLY YEARS BAPTISTS ON THEIR OWN THE LEAN YEARS - 1844-1900 A NEW CENTURY - A NEW CHURCH AFTER THE FIRE FIRST LIST OF MEMBERS HISTORY - 1907-1922 - MINUTES BY MINUTES FIRST ACCOUNT OF DEACON ELECTION FIRST PASTOR VACATION-END OF CENTRAL THE BRAME YEARS - 1923-1951 FLOOD OF '21 - BOY SCOUT TROOP SPONSORED DEPRESSION - 1930's OIL BOOM THE FORTIES - REVIVAL, 100th ANNIVERSARY DR. WEBB BRAME - JANUARY 15. 1923-JANUARY 15. 1951 GIANT STRIDES WITH DR. FIELDS-1951-I9S6 "THE CHURCH CHIMES" ENLARGEMENT OF CHURCH STAFF NEW SYSTEM FOR DEACON ELECTION KINDERGARTEN PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 1952 TWO MORNING WORSHIP SERVICES PRESENT HOME OF FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH planning begins for new BUILDING The first services in this church building were held March 31, 1957, CONSTRUCTION UNDERWAY FEBRUARY, 1956 with a week-long dedication program. DR. FIELDS CALLED TO EDIT BAPTIST RECORD NEW CHURCH - NEW EMPHASIS MEMORIALS PROVIDE FURNISHINGS FORNEW CHURCH OUR CHURCH AND MISSIONS BRO. SHIRLEY CALLED TO TEMPLE BAPTIST, RUSTON, LA. OUR YEARS WITH BRO. YATES PIONEER MISSIONS CHAPEL MINISTRY HOME FOR FURLOUGHING MISSIONARIES RADIO MINISTRY "OPERATION 30-10" SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAM BUILDING FINANCIALLY FOR ENLARGING OUTREACH CHURCH BUS PURCHASED CURRENT LIST OF ADULT MEMBERS OUR PRESENT STAFF THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED HOW SHALL THEY HEAR WITHOUT A PREACHER? THE EARLY YEARS The growth and development of a church is closely related to the growth and development of the community of which the church is a part. Throughout the history of our country, wherever our pioneer fathers settled, one of the first things they did was to establish a church. In many communities one church served all the people, because there were not enough people of the same faith to organize and support a church of their own faith. These were called "Union Churches." This was true in our community which has not always been known as Yazoo City. Yazoo City was first called "Hanan's Bluff," named for two broth ers, Henry and Hiram Hanan. These two brothers settled Tokeba Planta tion in 1826 on the river above Yazoo City (presently owned by Mr. Emile Schaefer). The Hanan brothers also operated a ferry across the Yazoo River near the foot of Peak Tenneriffe.' The first cotton gin in this locality was erected and operated by a Mr. George Manchester, and for a number of years this place was called Manchester. In 1829 the town commonly known as Hanan's Bluff was incorporated and chartered Manchester, Mississippi, by the State Legis lature. On December 15, 1830, the State Legislature revoked the Man chester Charter and issued a charter in the name of Yazoo City, Mississippi. ^ The earliest known worship service in this locality was conducted by a Reverend N. W. Camp of the Episcopal faith, in 1834. The first place of worship was near the top of Jefferson Street. A small frame building was used as a Union Church, to the right of which was a grave yard on the Indian Trail (presently South Drive). The grave markers there revealed history, romance and tragedy. There was one grave with a brick wall around it and a marble slab covering it. Two daggers were engraved in it, a mute reminder of a duel between two physicians. One was stabbed to death, the dagger being left in his body. In the course of time, a landslide on the hillway made it expedient to remove the graves to the Yazoo City Cemetery (now Glenwood). Among the graves moved were those of two grandsons of John Hancock, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.^ Not all of the bodies in this "graveyard" were disinterred. There still remain several marked graves in the north-west part of Highland Brame Park. When the grading and excavating for the present entrance to Highland Brame Park was under way several unmarked graves were 1 "A History of Mississippi"—Lowry and McCardle ^ 2 "Echoes from the Past"-Mrs. M. P. Marsh, Yazoo City Herald, October 22, 1915 unearthed. Just west of Pavilion No. 1 in Hi^land Brame Park, there On Lot 164 there was a one-room brick building which became the is now a grave marker bearing this inscription: 'To the Memory of Dr. first place of worship for the Baptists of Yazoo City and for the follow James F. Rainey, who fell in death the 21st day of June, 1837." The ing fifty-eight years. term "fell in death" was commonly used in accounting for the unfortu The first Baptist Association organized in Mississippi was the Mis nate victims of dueling. sissippi Baptist Association, organized on September 26, 1807, with messengers from six churches. Within eighteen years there were forty churches in the Mississippi Association. At the 1819 meeting of the Mississippi Association action was taken granting the eight churches BAPTISTS ON THEIR OWN north of the Homochito River the right to withdraw and form the Union Baptist Association. ^ The first account of Baptist activity in Yazoo City is not found in It is in the minutes of the 1844 meeting of the Union Baptist Asso our own records but in the records of the First Presbyterian Church of ciation that we find the first record of a Baptist church in Yazoo City. Yazoo City. In the minutes of the Presbyterian Session dated December, The First Baptist Church of Yazoo City was organized with fifteen 1843, there is the following statement: "The Baptist brethren having charter members, eleven whites and four slaves. The first pastor was no place of worship of their own have been offered the use of our build Rev.
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