Sweedens Cove, Battle Creek & “The Gizzard” were among first areas inhabited in Marion County.

Sweeden’s Cove Primitive Baptist Church
A beautiful photograph circa 1914 of this church and its members exists; the church is still standing in Sweeden’s Cove. The information below is taken from the book by, and reproduced with the permission of:

Jerry Blevins
P.O. Box 4417
Huntsville, Alabama 35818

1821 Church Membership: Earliest date, other dates not listed here.

Beene, Samuel & Sally

Sarah Sr.; Patey; Robert; Martha & Owen R. Beene
Blevins, Elisha
Barnes, Jehu
Brownfield, B. & Mary
Cross, Elizabeth & Susannah
Dooley, Mathew & Mary
Dover, Patey (McBee) & Dicy
Eaves, Nancy
Ellison, Sarah
Ferguson (Furgason) Martha & William L.
Frog, Priscilla
Garner, Elizabeth
Gotcher, Henry
Greenlee, Elizabeth
Harris, Folley, Isabel, Mary, Rebecca & William.
Hargis, Rebecca & Thomas
Holley, James & Anna
Hays, Hanna
Johnson, George, Andrew R., & Teletha
Kelly, John & Thomas
Kiykendall, Sary
Long, Arthur & Jane
Ledford, Charles
Lad, Anna
Martin, Louis & Rosanah. Sarah, Urias & Kesiah
Maxwill, Thomas & Mary. Calvin & Milia
McBee, Samuel, William, Eleanor, Lydia, Mary, Patsey, Elizabeth, Jesse, Obediah,Robert & Sarah.
McCoulter, Annis, Mary, & David
McMahan, Benjamin & Amelia & Eliza
Mullin, Anthony W. & W. W.
Martin, Rosanah
Piburn, Jacob & Mary
Prater, Mary
Ray, George
Rice, James
Roulston, Evander M.
Rogers, John B.Reeves, Sally
Rawlings, Lewis
Sanders, Francis & Mary
Selman, Benjamin & Sarah
Smith, John
Standridge, Alexander & Elizabeth
Tindle, John
Towry, John
Thompson, Frances
Whitehead, William
Winne, Mary
Williams, Hardin & Jane
Watson, Samuel & Ann
Witte, Sally
Womack, Abner, Isabella & Lucy