Church and Family History Research Assistance for Clinton County, Missouri
CHURCHES:
CASTILE (MT. ZION)(1833)
Castile Church (later called Mt. Zion) was organized in January 1833, with twenty-four charter members, viz., William Stillwell, Elisha Lane, John Stillwell, Elizabeth Lane, James Brush, Polly Brush, Luticia Swindler, Rhodian Gott, John Jones, Jane Gott, Ann Gott, Joshua B. Jones, Rebecca Jones, Joshua Jones, Polly Jones, Jemima Pilcher, America Pilcher, Elizabeth Galey, Jane Staten, Lavica Shepherd, Sarah Hall, Elizabeth Shepherd, and Henry H. Hall.
SURNAMES OF MEMBERS:
Allen, Armstead, Black, Brush, Carson, Cox, Curshaw, Dickerson, Dotheridge, Doyl, Easley, Finley, Galey, Gilbert, Gott, Hall, Hardy, Harris, Haynes, Hedges, Herns, James, Jarvis, Jones, Keys, Lafollett, Lane, Layne, Maddox, McPherin, Morton, Pilcher, Rogers, Shelly, Shepherd, Skelton, Smith, Staten, Stillwell, Stump, Swindler, Taylor, Vancleave, Vansoyoc, Wade, Walden, Wasson, Watkins, Wible, Wilkerson, Wilson, Wray (incomplete due to loss of records).
PLEASANT HILL (TRIMBLE)(1846)
Pleasant Hill Church was constituted with seventeen members, on August 19, 1846, viz., James E. Elliott, Thomas Fry, James C. Hall, Wesley Gentry, Dillard Martin, Joel Matthews, Samuel Oldham, George B. Lingenfelter, Elizabeth Elliott, Katherine Fry, Virginia Hall, Polly Ann Fry, Susan Fry, Fannie Matthews, Mary Ann Fry, Sally Hall, and Cynthia S. Lingenfelter. The presbytery and council was composed of Elders William Thorpe, John Adkins, and Eppe Tillery.
Elder Eppe Tillery was chosen pastor and served until 1873. He was followed by Elders T. W. Todd (1873), William Tillery (1879), J. C. Penny (1880), G. W. Stout (1883), H. W. Newton (1885), W. T. Brown (1892), J. C. Jones (1921).
Deacons, moderators, and trustees of the church included W. J. Hobson, James C. Hall, James Elliott, William J. Hall, J. C. Elliott, John T. Shannon, George R. Hall, G. B. Lingenfelter, Thomas Fry, George F. Hall, Charles O. Hall, James C. Hall, and L. B. G. Hall.
The meetings were held in the homes of the members and at the home of a friend, Mr. Griffin Hopkins, and sometimes at the Pleasant Hill school house, until July 1848, when the log church building was finished. The church asked Elder Eppe Tillery, the pastor, to purchase a suitable stove with drum in St. Louis, and it was brought by steamboat to Liberty landing and hauled with an ox team to the church. In 1848, Brother Thomas Fry made a table of solid walnut. In 1868 funds were raised to construct a frame building, which was used until 1928, when a brick veneer building with full basement was erected.
In 1846, the church voted to unite with the Fishing River Association.
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