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The Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church was
organized in 1874 formed by the charter members Zachariah Bennett,
Zachariah Henderson Bennett, Eliza Bennett, Keziah Bennett and Weltha A.
Rushing. It is obvious that these early settlers were family and tried to
form a Baptist Church for the locals of Pierson. Sheffield served as
the pastor till 1878.
The land was purchased behind the church from Nels Pierson in 1877 for only $10 dollars and not long after they built a meeting house. Many of the parish members were baptized in Moore's Lake often called the "baptizing pond" which I believe is behind the church. School classes began in the church in 1886 with Mr. Thomas as the first teacher and probably one of the first in the town of Pierson. The cemetery was formed for those that attended the church and either sits in front of the cemetery or in the town of Pierson. Its hard to tell if the wood building was the original meeting house or little church of Mount Zion. But it appears to be fairly old and many of the oldest stones reside fairly close to this building. The cemetery sits on a rolling hill with some woods behind it. Also nearby is the Stone Homestead which is the site where William H. Stone and his wife Jane Emmaline Richard built a log house in a oak grove on this property near the cemetery. He and his three wives are buried in the Mount Zion Baptist Cemetery where we investigated. Stone was one of the early settlers of Pierson. © By Rick-AngelOfThyNight |
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