| The People – This picture is the only one I’ve ever seen of the church as a wood frame building and it certainly doesn’t show much. The man on the far right, holding the little girl, is Thomas Patrick YEARGIN, my grand father. The girl is his daughter, Mary Elizabeth who died 20 NOV 1914, at age of 3 yrs, 2 mos. 17 days, so the picture was made prior to that date. The man next to her, touching his hat, is Chelsey Mann YEARGIN, my great grandfather, and father of Thomas Patrick. Submitted by Jim Gossum |
| As the church looks today. Cemetery off to the right. The land for Mt. Hermon was deeded to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1891 by Chesley Mann YEARGIN and his wife Mary Jane SIMMONS. In 1893, a frame building was erected approximately where the present church now stands. Some years later the church was moved up on a knoll behind where the church first stood. In the late 1920’s, the State Highway Dept. surveyed for the new Highway 54. This divided the church property and left the building on a small plot. In the early 1940’s, with funds available, volunteer help, and salvage from the old building, a new red brick building was erected near where the first church stood. This building is in use today. This is quoted from my cousin, Charles Yeargin, and is published in Weakley County, Tennessee – History & Families, 1999 by Turner Publishing Co.This is the building as it appears today, with an addition that was added in the 1970’s, I believe. Submitted by Jim Gossum |
