{"id":3298,"date":"2020-11-14T08:14:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T14:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2020-11-14T08:23:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T14:23:49","slug":"corinth-baptist-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/corinth-baptist-church\/","title":{"rendered":"CORINTH BAPTIST CHURCH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><em>Corinth Baptist Church, Sharon, Tennessee<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/cornith2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3301\" data-link=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/corinth-baptist-church\/cornith2\/\" class=\"wp-image-3301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/cornith2.jpg 576w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/cornith2-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/baptisingday.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3302\" data-link=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/corinth-baptist-church\/baptisingday\/\" class=\"wp-image-3302 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/baptisingday.jpg 576w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/baptisingday-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Corinth Baptist Church was organized just after the civil War in the late 1860&#8217;s.&nbsp; It is one of the oldest churches in the area.&nbsp; Graves Fonville and H. C. Roberts donated approximately two acres of land for the building of the church in March, 1869.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the summers from 1880 to 1900, members built brush arbors and placed straw on the ground for revival meetings.&nbsp; They would hold Sunday School from spring to late fall and close out for the winter.&nbsp; One of the first preachers to serve the church was Rev. Holliburton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first Corinth Church&nbsp; building stood on the same spot from 1869 to 1905.&nbsp; The second church building was hit by a tornado two different times.&nbsp; The second time around, in 1944, the tornado completely destroyed the church.&nbsp;&nbsp; The present building was built at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On August 1, 1884, land for the Corinth Cemetery was purchased from S. T. Witherington and his wife for $25.00.&nbsp; It is said the first person&nbsp; buried in the cemetery was the child of Mr. Monroe, a workman helping to&nbsp; build the Illinois Central Railroad through Sharon. While preaching in a revival meeting in the early 1930&#8217;s Rev. Oscar Phillips collapsed in the pulpit and was DOA at the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The baptising picture of Corinth Baptist Church is at the Middle Fork of the Obion River at the Illinois Central Railroad trestle.&nbsp; The date is about 1908.&nbsp; Almost all the congregation appears to have been there, so there must have been a wagon road that was passable, for surely those dressed up ladies and gentlemen couldn&#8217;t have walked down the tracks from Sharon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a child I attended Corinth Church with my family.&nbsp; When I was in the 5th grade I persusaded Mother to let me attend First Baptist Church in Sharon where my friends attended.&nbsp; Then my brother wanted to go to First Baptist in Sharon.&nbsp; Eventually we all ended up attending Sharon First Baptist Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can remember Corinth having their Homecomings.&nbsp; We would have lunch at the church and afterwards, there would be an afternoon congregational singing.&nbsp; This is something my Mother really enjoyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also I remember after church on Easter Sunday, there would be a big Easter Egg Hunt.&nbsp; It was always great fun with all of us kids running around like crazy and with our new Easter outfits on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a child I can remember my grandmother telling me about attending Corinth Baptist Church.&nbsp; She said in her day they would have dances, roll up the carpet and &#8220;swing Josie.&#8221;&nbsp; Well, that didn&#8217;t suit so well with the church, as Baptist don&#8217;t believe in dancing. (At least they didn&#8217;t at that time)&nbsp; Well, my grandmother and her brother had to go before the church, repent and promise not to dance again.&nbsp; My grandmother said&nbsp; her brother&nbsp; Valva Adams danced all the way to the hen house and back every day.&nbsp; But there were no more &#8220;swing Josie &#8221; parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of my relatives are buried at Corinth Cemetery.&nbsp; Some are George Adams, my great grandfather, Buford Adams, My grandmother&#8217;s&nbsp; brother, James Alexander ( Jim ) Hunt, my great grandfather, Paul and Evie Lener Hunt, my grandparents,&nbsp; their two babies, Nola Hunt Hardman, Will Hardman, Billy Hardman, Dan Jackson,my GG grandfather; Tony Jackson,my GG grandfather&#8217;s brother. Cora Parham, her father was brother to George Adams, J.N. (Slim)&nbsp; Parham, John Parham and my parents,&nbsp; Eather and Audrey M. Hunt. Some day my husband and I will be buried there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Submitted by Judy Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"495\" height=\"504\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/newcornith.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/newcornith.jpg 495w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/newcornith-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"377\" height=\"43\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/scroll9.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1732\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/old-churches\/\">BACK to CHURCHES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Web Design &amp; Graphics by MaryCarol<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corinth Baptist Church, Sharon, Tennessee Corinth Baptist Church was organized just after the civil War in the late 1860&#8217;s.&nbsp; It is one of the oldest churches in the area.&nbsp; Graves Fonville and H. C. Roberts donated approximately two acres of land for the building of the church in March, 1869. During the summers from 1880 <a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/corinth-baptist-church\/\" class=\"read-more inline\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-gutenberg.php","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"full","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"MaryCarol","author_link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/author\/marycarol\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 5 years ago","modified":"Updated 5 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on November 14, 2020","modified":"Updated on November 14, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on November 14, 2020 8:14 am","modified":"Updated on November 14, 2020 8:23 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3307,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions\/3307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/weakley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}