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During the summer a protracted meeting was held under a brush arbor in the schoolhouse yard.  About two miles southeast of Pittsboro, North Carolina, a schoolhouse was built called Moore’s Schoolhouse, where a short term was taught once a year, called a free school.  There were several large oak trees in the yard, mostly on the south side; it was a beautiful playground for children. It was near the home of a good old man Stephen Moore by name, a deacon of old Rock Spring Baptist Church.  The first church was built of logs more than a hundred years ago.  As the schoolhouse was so near Mr. Moore, it was called Moore’s School.  About the year 1851, a brush arbor was built on the south side under these big trees by Mr. Joseph Bynum, who was a good man and wanted to do something for the uplifting of his neighbors and country, and he did.  A protracted meeting was held by the circuit rider and some local preachers.  The meeting was held for a week or more.  Mr. Moore’s family, Mr. Petty and Mr. Bynum, all lived near.  Mr. Gean’s family lived two miles, so they carried provisions and bedding and put them in the schoolhouse so people from a distance who wanted to spend the night could get some rest.  The meeting was a great success and there and then it was proposed

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to build a church.  It seemed as if every one present, Baptist, Methodist, Christian and some of no society, were for a church.  There was a plank road running from Lockville to Pittsboro.  Mr. Bynum had Sunday School in the schoolhouse until the church was so they could teach in the church.