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CHAPTER II
A CHURCH IS BUILT
Mr. Joseph Bynum said he would donate the land, two or three acres or as many as would be needed for a church and graveyard, and in a short time he would have it run off. Nathaniel Clegg, commonly called “Nat Clegg”, being county surveyor at that time, was sent for and the land soon was surveyed. Soon wagons and teams were out hauling. Mr. Thomas Ray, who lived up north of Pittsboro, with a wagon and four horses driven by his son James –whose body is now sleeping near the church; Albert Gean’s team, driven by his son William; Luther Clegg’s team driven by Uncle Dick, a colored man; Mr. Stephen Moore, John Neal and several others, were willing to help in other ways.
The only sawmill anywhere near was not far from Lockville. First the sills and sleepers were put down. Not a neighbor but was willing to help and did in some way. If they could not do any of the work, they would wait on those who did work. It was not long until the church was so they could preach in it. It was built with a gallery, two stories for colored people, two
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doors in the south end and one in the southwest corner for going into the gallery. The steps were never built. The pulpit was in the north end high up, two steps on each side; it was so high that we could only see the preacher’s head, some were tall enough that you could see their shoulders. Roderick Harmon, a good workman built the pulpit. He was always willing to help in any good work.
The neighbors did not wait for the church to be finished. They had a meeting, the workbenches being still in the west side, with preaching day and night. Mothers with babies would come, some in wagons, few came in carriages. Mr. Spencer Petty, with two or three children would come, and bring a bed quilt, on which the baby would go to sleep. Mrs. Albert Gean did the same; so did Mrs. Roderick Harmon. It seemed like the babies those days went to sleep and was but little trouble to the mothers. The first meeting held in the church was by four local preachers, Wilson Atwater, Lucius Barnet, Thomas Moses, Gaston Farrow and the circuit rider come in for a part of the time.
