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Article: Gray's Creek Missionary Baptist Church
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- Tri-State Defender
- Article date:
- September 24, 2003
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Lewis, Sylvester
Tri-State Defender
09-24-2003
An old, weather-beaten, undated, barely legible tombstone in the Gray's
Creek Church Cemetery reads: "Kitty, wife of Simon Price Free Man of Color
and a Minister of the Old Baptist Church."
Gray's Creek Missionary Baptist Church, located in northeastern Shelby
County in Eads, Tennessee, lists 1843 as the year of its inception and is
believed to be the oldest African-American church in the country. There are
no official records that chronicle the church's history, and there have
been published reports in recent years that attributes its founding to a
freed slave names Joseph Harris - my great, great grandfather.
The same reports credit Harris, a farmer ...
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