Summit Prairie Baptist Church

                            Stevenson township, Marion Co., IL

                                                                 

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Summit Prairie Baptist Church was located next to Summit Prairie Cemetery in Section 3 of Stevenson township, and just across the line from Alma township.  (Alma township was just to the north.)    The church was between Brubaker and Salem.

 

Summit Prairie Baptist Church - "The Kinmundy Express" - Sept. 8, 1949

 

 

Summit Prairie Baptist Church - "The Kinmundy Express" - Sept. 8, 1949

 

 

"History of Salem, Illinois and Surronding Territory" by the Continental Historical Bureau of Mt. Vernon, IL (circa 1961) - pages 58-59

 

"Summit Prairie Primitive Baptist Church"

    "This church was organized in the early 1840's by a group of people who were believers of the Primitive Baptist faith.  The church is located in Section Four, Stevenson township, Marion Co., Illinois.  The church building and the cemetery which is located next to the church grounds are a few miles northeast of Salem. 

    The deed record shows that land for the church was purchased on March 2, 1844.  The land was conveyed by Elizabeth Hite to Andrew Hite, Samuel Beaver, and Abraham Beaver, Trustees of "Summit Prairie Predestinarian Baptist Church."

    Records have not been found to show when the cemetery was established, but there were some burials prior to the organization of the church.  An infant child whose surname was Hite was buried November 4, 1843.  Barbara Hite is said to be the first person buried at this place.  She was the daughter of Andrew Hite and was twenty-one years of age at the time of her death.  The exact date of her death could not be ascertained, as the inscription on her monument is not legible.

    Worship services have not been held at this place for a number of years."

 

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