FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SEARCY, White County, Arkansas

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Date: 6/2/97
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PASTORS: (1847?-1901)

Bogard, Ben
Boone, T. B.
Faulkner, E. C.
Green, Moses
Harris, J. W.
Hughes, J. R.
Jenkins, J. T.
Kincade, A. J.
Powell, A. L.
Shipp, J. C.
Thomas, J. S.

Members during the Civil War Era included the following families:

Black
Bradley
Bundridge
Coody
Critz
Crow
Deener
Harder
Holloway
Jones
McPherson
Pilkington

PASTORS: (1901-1957) When moved & named Gentry Memorial Church

Bogard, Ben
Cooksy, W. M.
Cossey, J. I.
Greenleaf, A. A.
James, C. N.
Kelley, W. M.
Myrick, C. E.
Rogers, J. S.
Rucker, T. K.
Schultz, M. J.
Wood, W. C.
Vestal, W. R.

People innvolved in laying the cornerstone in 1901:

Black, B. C.
Bogard, Ben
Ford, J. A.
Hailey, Z. T.
Hart, John
Holloway, J. W.
Lewis, R. R.
Patterson, Henry
Smith, J. A.
Wood, J. P.
Woodson, D. T.

Deacons under Pastor Charles Myrick:

Deener, J. B.
Ford, J. A.
Kimbrough, J. A.
Manning, S. D.
Patterson, Henry
Rachels, J. N.
Varner, Henry
Walker, O. J.
Wood, J. P.

Officers under Pastor J. I. Cossey in 1936:

Belas, Mrs. Victor
Duncan, Henry
Golden, Mrs. Ira
Hoofman, A. W.
Huddleston, B. C.
Jones, Mark P., Sr.
Royston, A. H.
Thomas, Winifred

(After 1957, it was again moved & then renamed First Baptist Church)