The original Baptist Church was built on the western side of US Survey 2018. "- mention of the Old Settlers report on landmarks in the Missouri Historical Review, 1907a, (2) Pages 140-146. In the article it relates the following; "The Baptist also in 1836 built a log house for worship on the western side of US Survey 2018, on Sandy, in what was then known as the ‘Upper Sandy Settlement.' Aaron Cook made a deed conveying one acre to the church for church purposes and a graveyard. This house has long since vanished. The congregation abandoned this building in 1840, and built a house lower down on the Sandy, at or near its present site of their church."



" The new church's history relates Fleming Hensley giving "1 acre, for…the benefit accruing to his family from a school house in the neighborhood, for $1.00…1 acre square of land in the SW corner of Survey 1980 confirmed to John Litton…Dated 31 December 1847 recorded 1854…" to the Trustees of School District 7 Township 41…" as verified in Book M Page 118.



"…the Church was organized by Rev. Thomas Donahue about 1835. About the same time a log building (old) costing $200.00, was erected for a church edifice and used until about 1843." Locating the deed for this "New Church" tract we learn, "Fleming Hensley and his wife Jane sell for $1.00 to the Ephraim Beckett and William Hensley, Senior Deacons in Sandy Church...for use of Baptist Church…1 acre in SW corner of Survey 1980…bounded by 1 acre deed by said Fleming Hensley to School District #1 T41…being the parcel of ground whereon the Sandy Baptist Church now stands…" Said deed being recorded in Book N Page 295 recorded on 11th October 1856. (note; I drove past the Sandy Baptist Church and the sign over the door of the brick Church reads "ESTABLISHED in 1824."