The original Baptist Church was built on the western side of US Survey 2018. "- mention of the Old Settlers report on landmarks in the Missouri Historical Review, 1907a, (2) Pages 140-146. In the article it relates the following; ”The Baptist also in 1836 built a log house for worship on the western side of US Survey 2018, on Sandy, in what was then known as the ‘Upper Sandy Settlement.’ Aaron Cook made a deed conveying one acre to the church for church purposes and a graveyard. This house has long since vanished. The congregation abandoned this building in 1840, and built a house lower down on the Sandy, at or near its present site of their church.”

” The new church’s history relates Fleming Hensley giving “1 acre, for…the benefit accruing to his family from a school house in the neighborhood, for $1.00…1 acre square of land in the SW corner of Survey 1980 confirmed to John Litton…Dated 31 December 1847 recorded 1854…” to the Trustees of School District 7 Township 41…” as verified in Book M Page 118.

“…the Church was organized by Rev. Thomas Donahue about 1835. About the same time a log building (old) costing $200.00, was erected for a church edifice and used until about 1843.” Locating the deed for this “New Church” tract we learn, “Fleming Hensley and his wife Jane sell for $1.00 to the Ephraim Beckett and William Hensley, Senior Deacons in Sandy Church...for use of Baptist Church…1 acre in SW corner of Survey 1980…bounded by 1 acre deed by said Fleming Hensley to School District #1 T41…being the parcel of ground whereon the Sandy Baptist Church now stands…” Said deed being recorded in Book N Page 295 recorded on 11th October 1856. (note; I drove past the Sandy Baptist Church and the sign over the door of the brick Church reads “ESTABLISHED in 1824.”

The original Baptist Church was built on the western side of US Survey 2018. "- mention of the Old Settlers report on landmarks in the Missouri Historical Review, 1907a, (2) Pages 140-146. In the article it relates the following; ”The Baptist also in 1836 built a log house for worship on the western side of US Survey 2018, on Sandy, in what was then known as the ‘Upper Sandy Settlement.’ Aaron Cook made a deed conveying one acre to the church for church purposes and a graveyard. This house has long since vanished. The congregation abandoned this building in 1840, and built a house lower down on the Sandy, at or near its present site of their church.”

” The new church’s history relates Fleming Hensley giving “1 acre, for…the benefit accruing to his family from a school house in the neighborhood, for $1.00…1 acre square of land in the SW corner of Survey 1980 confirmed to John Litton…Dated 31 December 1847 recorded 1854…” to the Trustees of School District 7 Township 41…” as verified in Book M Page 118.

“…the Church was organized by Rev. Thomas Donahue about 1835. About the same time a log building (old) costing $200.00, was erected for a church edifice and used until about 1843.” Locating the deed for this “New Church” tract we learn, “Fleming Hensley and his wife Jane sell for $1.00 to the Ephraim Beckett and William Hensley, Senior Deacons in Sandy Church...for use of Baptist Church…1 acre in SW corner of Survey 1980…bounded by 1 acre deed by said Fleming Hensley to School District #1 T41…being the parcel of ground whereon the Sandy Baptist Church now stands…” Said deed being recorded in Book N Page 295 recorded on 11th October 1856. (note; I drove past the Sandy Baptist Church and the sign over the door of the brick Church reads “ESTABLISHED in 1824.”