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Calvin Smith

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Calvin Smith

Birth
Pike County, Mississippi, USA
Death
23 Jun 1881 (aged 68)
Washington Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
Washington Parish, Louisiana, USA GPS-Latitude: 30.98597, Longitude: -90.1852517
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Calvin Smith 1st marriage was August 22 1833, Lawerence County Mississippi Unknown Smith
2) Ann Crews Smith widow of Calvin's brother Elias V. Smith (1804-1838)
3) marriage Sarah Brumfield Smith on August 15 1839.

Census 1840, 1850, 1860 Pike County, Mississippi
Census 1870 & 1880 Washington Parish Louisiana

1866 Half-Moon Bluff Baptist Church reconstituted by Rev. Willis J. Fortenberry and Rev. J. E. Pounds.
"State of Louisiana, Parish Of Washington
July 7th A.D. 1866

We the following named Brothers and Sisters, having been Baptized on a profession of our faith and having given ourselves to the Lord and to one another Brotherly covenant and being desirous to keep up a Godly discipline
and being anxious to be constituted into a Church State, We therefore have agreed to invite the following named Brethren as a presbytery to Constitute us into a Church State to wit; Eld. W. J. Fortenbery and J. E. Pounds. We
the above named presbytery having met according to request and organized by appointing J. E. Pounds and N. Graves, Clerk; first - preceded to appoint a committee of arrangements when C. K. Fortenberry, William Louis,
Elbert Haley, CALVIN SMITH and T. Pitman was appointed committee who reports as follows Eld. W. J. Fortenberry to preach the Constitutional sermon. J. E. Pounds to read the letters of the following named Brethren and Sisters and find them orthodox. We therefore proceed to constitute them
in a Church State upon the following Articles of faith, Gospel order and rules of Decorum; first - Elder W. J. Fortenberry preached the constitutional sermon from John the 18 Chapter first clause and 36 verse.
Jesus answered my kingdom is not of the world. Second read
the articles of faith. The rules of Decorum in Gospel order the following named Brethren and Sisters subscriber to wit: N. Graves, Wiley Strahan, T. Pitman, Civillia Pitman, Arcada Graves, Lozany Magee. Resolved that this Church shall be known by the name of Half Moon Bluff
Church, constituted with the above named six members upon the following Articles of Faith.

During July of 1866, a group of people living on the east side of Bogue Chitto River assembled at Half-Moon Bluff and reconstituted the church. Six of the group were members of Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church. Nathaniel Graves,another member of the group, held membership in the New Zion Baptist
Church, located just north of the state line in Walthall County. Nathaniel Graves lived just north of Cumnock, which was about 4 miles north of Half-Moon Bluff.

When Half Moon Bluff Baptist Church was reconstituted during July 1866, it again became a member of the Pearl
Baptist Association. The West Pearl River Baptist Association was organized in 1871. Half-Moon Bluff
Baptist Church withdrew from the Pearl River Baptist Association to become a member of that Association.
HISTORY OF FRANKLINTON FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH By Daunton Gibbs
1976-1977
Calvin Smith 1st marriage was August 22 1833, Lawerence County Mississippi Unknown Smith
2) Ann Crews Smith widow of Calvin's brother Elias V. Smith (1804-1838)
3) marriage Sarah Brumfield Smith on August 15 1839.

Census 1840, 1850, 1860 Pike County, Mississippi
Census 1870 & 1880 Washington Parish Louisiana

1866 Half-Moon Bluff Baptist Church reconstituted by Rev. Willis J. Fortenberry and Rev. J. E. Pounds.
"State of Louisiana, Parish Of Washington
July 7th A.D. 1866

We the following named Brothers and Sisters, having been Baptized on a profession of our faith and having given ourselves to the Lord and to one another Brotherly covenant and being desirous to keep up a Godly discipline
and being anxious to be constituted into a Church State, We therefore have agreed to invite the following named Brethren as a presbytery to Constitute us into a Church State to wit; Eld. W. J. Fortenbery and J. E. Pounds. We
the above named presbytery having met according to request and organized by appointing J. E. Pounds and N. Graves, Clerk; first - preceded to appoint a committee of arrangements when C. K. Fortenberry, William Louis,
Elbert Haley, CALVIN SMITH and T. Pitman was appointed committee who reports as follows Eld. W. J. Fortenberry to preach the Constitutional sermon. J. E. Pounds to read the letters of the following named Brethren and Sisters and find them orthodox. We therefore proceed to constitute them
in a Church State upon the following Articles of faith, Gospel order and rules of Decorum; first - Elder W. J. Fortenberry preached the constitutional sermon from John the 18 Chapter first clause and 36 verse.
Jesus answered my kingdom is not of the world. Second read
the articles of faith. The rules of Decorum in Gospel order the following named Brethren and Sisters subscriber to wit: N. Graves, Wiley Strahan, T. Pitman, Civillia Pitman, Arcada Graves, Lozany Magee. Resolved that this Church shall be known by the name of Half Moon Bluff
Church, constituted with the above named six members upon the following Articles of Faith.

During July of 1866, a group of people living on the east side of Bogue Chitto River assembled at Half-Moon Bluff and reconstituted the church. Six of the group were members of Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church. Nathaniel Graves,another member of the group, held membership in the New Zion Baptist
Church, located just north of the state line in Walthall County. Nathaniel Graves lived just north of Cumnock, which was about 4 miles north of Half-Moon Bluff.

When Half Moon Bluff Baptist Church was reconstituted during July 1866, it again became a member of the Pearl
Baptist Association. The West Pearl River Baptist Association was organized in 1871. Half-Moon Bluff
Baptist Church withdrew from the Pearl River Baptist Association to become a member of that Association.
HISTORY OF FRANKLINTON FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH By Daunton Gibbs
1976-1977


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