![]() ![]() The first church officers included: Tony Anderson, Chairman of the Deacon Board, Eff Anderson, Boyd Ruff, Deacon Perry, Henry Bell, Shack Gadson, and Dose Gadson. Corbett and Deacon Robert Edmund as church officers. A cornerstone dated 1896 marks the oldest record of a building on the current site. Corbett.īethlehem Baptist Church and its Sunday school were the center of community activities. The oldest recorded date of birth is that of Mary Bell Gadsden and Deacon William M. The oldest identifiable grave is marked 1914 however, many of the tombstones are engraved with slavery era birth dates. As with most churches, much of our history can be found in our cemetery behind the church. The church was located on land purchased from Henry Wiley for the price of $50.00. The Bethlehem River began, as a small trickle as Reverend Elijah Johnson began having service in a “brush arbor” on a parcel of land in Richland County, near what is now known as Koon Road. ![]() As the waters continue its downward journey, the stream gained its volume and became a river of living waters. In 1896 the trickles started to make a brook, other brooks, added their waters to form a stream, which borders into a creek. Rainfall, snowfall, a spring or the melting of glacier ice may be its source. A river starts as a tiny trickle on a slope.
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