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ter churches to determine the best course of action, it was finally settled that the church be divided and each “party” have access to the building on alternate meeting days.
In 1890 there was another division of the congregation over Sunday Schools and other instrumental things, again, not scripturally based. In 1914 the two congregations decided to divide the lands. The original congregation, now called by such names as Anti-missionary, Anti-means, Hard Shell, and Old School, or, as we are now called, Primitive.
The Old School group took the land which had been sold to them by the Bryan family and built a new meeting house by 1916. The New Schoolers, Missionary Baptist or Regular Baptist took the building on the hill and that property. By 1915, however, this building was also razed and the present building erected.
During the Civil War the Yankees had disturbed the congregates to such a degree that many left the area. Also, many of the black members who were not sold before their freedom left to form their on congregations. The second meeting house had been damaged pretty badly during the war, which caused it to be necessary to make several changes, one of which was to remove the
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