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First Baptist Church of Union continued
By TERESA BLOUNT
Tue,01/21/20-3:01PM , 11,830 Reads
First Baptist Church continued to expand when in December 1959, the house of Frank Nicholson on the NW side of Horne and Walnut Streets was purchased and removed to make room for a paved parking lot. Next, in 1960, Otis Foster, whose home was located on the lot adjoining the church, sold his house to the church.
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First Baptist Church of Union
By TERESA BLOUNT
Tue,01/14/20-3:26PM , 14,099 Reads
Newspaper documentation shows that a Primitive Baptist Church was built on the Decatur-Philadelphia Road in the early days of Union; that area would be 204 N. Decatur Street today. Then at some point, another church called Union Church that was used by several denominations was built next to it at today’s 206 N. Decatur Street.
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Union Methodist Church continued
By TERESA BLOUNT
Tue,01/07/20-2:28PM , 10,706 Reads
As the years passed and the number of new members of the Methodist Church increased, in 1949 the membership began a fund for a new church building to accommodate its growth. The membership voted to tear down the old church and locate the new building in the same place.
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Looking back at Union Methodist Church
By TERESA BLOUNT
Tue,12/31/19-6:11AM , 13,896 Reads
In March 1963, the Union Methodist Church held its centennial celebration. For that service, a booklet containing a history of the first hundred years of that church was prepared. The following recounting of the church’s first century came from that bulletin.
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