Goodspeed: History of Tennessee, Obion County: The first congregation of the church of Christ was organized October 29, 1848, at the old Republican Meeting-house, four miles west of Union City, and consisted of the following members: Willis Caldwell, James Caldwell, Ezekiel Harelson, Isaac E. Caldwell, William M. Craig, Sarah Caldwell, Harriet E. White, Robert T. Caldwell, John C. Harris, David P Caldwell, Martha C. Harelson, John K. Skinner, Sophronia Skinner, George W. Whipple, Harriet Polsgrove, Emiline Polsgrove, George Polsgrove, Logan Kindle and Mary M. Caldwell. Services were held for a few years at Republican Meeting-house, after which they were transferred to a schoolhouse, three miles northwest of the town, and there many were added to the church. About 1858 a house of worship was erected at Union City, by the advice and assistance of Rev. H. D. Bantau, the first regular minister. Prominent among those who had ministered to the spiritual wants of the congregation previous to this time were Elders James Holmes, G. Hill and —- Ford.

Prior to the war two other congregations, one at Palestine (Glass) and the other at Pleasant Hill, had been organized, and within the past few years congregations have been established at Wilsonville and at Caldwell’s, about two miles north of where the first church was organized. The aggregate membership of this denomination is now estimated at about 700.