New Hope Missionary Baptist Church

Deaths

BASTROP — Fannie Akins, a homemaker, died Monday. Arrangements are incomplete under the direction of Tennant Funeral Home, Bastrop.

RUSTON — Charles Douglas "Doug" Burt died Monday. Memorial services are 4 p.m. Friday at Kilpatrick Funeral Home. Visitation is 5-8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

WATERPROOF — Danny Clark, a laborer, died Friday. Services are 2 p.m. Saturday at Myrtle Grove Baptist Church. Visitation is 5-6 p.m. Friday at Tennant Funeral Home, Rayville. Burial will be in Good Hope Cemetery, Waterproof.

CLARKS — Dorothy Jean Clark, a homemaker, died Tuesday. Private family services will be held at a later date under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home, West Monroe.

DETROIT — Harold Edward Clark, formerly of Epps, a laborer, died June 20. Arrangements are incomplete under the direction of Tennant Funeral Home, Rayville.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Hazel Kilpatrick Clayton, formerly of Rayville, an educator, died June 19. Services are 1 p.m. Tuesday at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church, Rayville. Burial will be in Mount Olive Cemetery under the direction of Tennant Funeral Home, Rayville.

Mary Lee Cooper of Monroe, formerly of Winnsboro, a homemaker, died Saturday. Services are 11 a.m. Friday at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, Winnsboro. Visitation is 5-6 p.m. Thursday at Tennant Funeral Home, Rayville. Burial will be in Oakley Cemetery, Gilbert.

FARMERVILLE — Gracie Eubanks Dodd, a homemaker, died Wednesday. Arrangements are incomplete under the direction of Farrar Funeral Home.

William R. Dupree of West Monroe, a retired diesel engine salesman, died Tuesday. Services are

10 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church, Calhoun. Visitation is 5-8 p.m. Friday at Kilpatrick Funeral Home, West Monroe. Burial will be in Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Calhoun.

MARION — Stanley Ferrell Hodge, a pipeline welder, died Monday. Services are 2 p.m. Thursday at Haile Baptist Church, Haile. Burial will be in Roarke Allen Cemetery, Haile, under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home, Monroe.

BASTROP — Earnest Johnson, formerly of New Orleans, a construction worker, died June 21. Arrangements are incomplete under the direction of Tennant Funeral Home.

History: Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church | CaryCitizen

Free People of Color

The unique community of Mayos, Barbees, Greens, Burroughs’, Weavers, Mills’ and others have had farms in their families as early as 1830 – during a time when most other African-Americans here were slaves.  This unusual pocket of free “people of color” joined together in 1867 to form the Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, just north of Morrisville, and their descendants still worship there today.

The Origins of Shiloh Church

In 1867, a committee was appointed at Cedar Fork Baptist to consider a report upon a separation of the white and “Colored” members of the church.  The Committee on Separation retired for a short time.  Upon returning, they submitted the following report:

Your committee to whom was referred the consideration of the white and Colored membership of this church begs leave to submit the following report.  The subject is one of grave importance and one that has for the last few years puzzled churches, associations, and conventions to know what course to pursue, but it seems now that the mystery heretofore connected with the matter is at least to some extend removed.  This will appear by consulting their (the Colored members’) inclination, as manifested in the course they are pursuing.

We see they are inclined, very much inclined, to independent action in religious matters as well as everything else, and seem to have no heart to worship God (even at churches where their memberships are) with the white race.  This of itself, to our minds, very clearly indicates the course to be pursued, and that is a dissolution of our relationship as church members.

We would, therefore, recommend that the Colored members of this church be requested to withdraw from the church, and organize churches of their own race and color, where they can worship God without restraint and embarrassment.

A Changing World

I attended services there this week. The sanctuary was full and the music was lively this Sunday as the families gathered to pray and have communion.  But these families who grew up together as proud “Shilodeans” are living in a different world today than even a few years ago.

Most have sold their large tracts of land.  The Dunnegan/Green property has become Sam’s Club and Wal Mart.  The Mills’ land across NC 54 from the church is now an apartment complex and hotel.  The Burroughs’ property across 54 has been slated to become a Wake County Community College site.  The Weaver’s property on Church Street has become Providence Place subdivision.  Shiloh Grove subdivision was once Barbee property.

First edition of the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church

Acts passed by the General Assembly of Georgia

Preaching from the Pulpit of New Hope Baptist Church

History of New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, 1859-1979, 120th anniversary

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