PLEASANT HILL BAPTIST CHURCH
1879
Hernando County - Pastor: A. Wilson - Delegates: D. T. McLeod
Total Membership: 38 - Contributions: $1.60 - Sabbath Meeting: 3rd.
Hernando County - Pastor: G. M. T. Wilson
- Delegates: D. T.
McLeod and E. MdLeod
Baptised: 11 Received by letter: 4 - Restored: 2 - Dismissed: 3 -
Expelled: 1
Died: 1 - Total Membership: 53 - Contributions:$8.00 - Church P.O.
Pinan.
1881
Hernando County - Pastor: R. T. Caddin - Delegates: D. T. McLeod and F.
P. Daniel
Received by letter: 3 - Dismissed: 5 - Total Membership: 46
Contributions: $2.00 - Days of Meeting: 2.
Hernando County - Delegates: R. T. Caddin
and D. T. McLeod
Baptised: 10 - Restored: 1 - Dismissed: 3 - Died: 1 - Total Membership:
53
Contributions: $2.20 - Sabbath Meeting: 2nd.
1883
Hernando County - Pastor: W. W. Bostic - Delegate: D. T. McLeod
Baptised: 6 - Expelled: 1 - Dismissed: 3 - Died: 2
Loss: 6 - Gain: 6 - Total Membership: 51 - Contributions: $2.00 - 1st
Sunday Meeting.
1884
Pastor: R. E. Bell - Clerk: Tom Blitch - Clerks P.O.: Leonard
Messenger: By letter - Received by letter: 3 - Restored: 2 - Expelled:
1 - Dismissed: 1
Died: 1 - Loss: 3 - Gain: 5 - Total Membership: 52 - Clear Gain: 2
Contributions: - Sabbath of Meeting: 1st.
Pastor: R. E. Bell - Delegates: D. T.
McLeod and E. McLeod
Dismissed: 4 - Total Membership: 42 - Contribution:2.50 - Meeting 1st
Sunday.
1887
Pastor: J. I. Spivey - Contributions: $1.80 - Meeting: 2nd Sunday.
1888
Pastor: J. R. Spivey - Representatives: J. J. Thomas and W. J. Moblsy
Baptised: 4 - Total Membership: 22 - Contributions: $1.50
Second Sabbath and Saturday before.
1889
By letter - Baptism: 4 - Expelled: 7 - Total Membership: 17.
1890
Delegates: J. J. Thomas and Aaron Dixon
Baptism: 4 - Died: 1 - Total Membership: 19.
1891
Pasco County - Organized: 1887 - Pastor and P.O. H. D. Ryals, Abbott
Clerk and P.O.: I. J. Thomas, Keystone Park - Membership last year: 18.
Increase by letter: 1 - Present Membership - Males: 6 - Females: 13 -
Total Membership: 19.No. of Meeting Houses: 1 - Value: $150.00.
1892
Pasco County - Organized: 1887 - Clerk and P.O.: I. J. Spivey, Key
Stone Park
Decrease by letter: 1 By Death: 1 - Total Membership last year: 19 -
Total Present Membership: 18.
1894
Hillsboro (possible typing error) Pastor and P.O.: B. H. Guy,
Earnestville - Clerk and P.O.: None listed
Organized 1887 - Membership last year:18 - Total Membership:19.
Note: 1894 is the last information on
Pleasant Hill - possible
in a different Baptist Association.
1878
Five Mile Prarie Hernando County - Pastor and P.O.:T. H. Jaudon, - Cork
- Delegates: H. Ryals and Liburn Kersey, Jr.
Total Membership: 37 - Contributions: $1.60 - Meeting: 1st Sabbath -
Remarks: Pititionary.
1879
Five Mile Prarie, Hernando County - Pastor and P.O.:R. T. Caddin, Cork
- Delegates: H. Ryals, and J. P. Smith
Baptised: 2 - Dismissed: 4 - Expelled: 6 - Total Membership: 32
Contributions: $2.25 - Sabbath Meeting: 1st: 1st Sunday.
1880
Six Mile Pond Hernando County - Pastor: R. T. Caddin - Delegates: H. D.
Ryals, John Spivey
Baptised : 8 - Received by letter: 4 - Restored: 1 - Dismissed: 2
Expelled: 5 - Total Membership: 32
Contributions: $2.50 _ Remarks: Formerly Five Mile Prarie.
1881
Six Mile Pond Hernando County - Pastor: T. H. Jaudon - Delegates: H. D.
Ryals and J. D. Spivey
Baptised: 1 - Received by letter: 2 - Restored: 2 - Expelled: 4 - Total
Membership: 37
Contributions: $2.50 - Days of Meeting: 1.
1882
Six Mile Pond Hernando County - Pastor: T. H. Jaudon - Delegates: H. D.
Ryals and G. W. Reardon
Received by Letter:2 - Restored: 1 - Expelled: 2 - Total Membership: 36
Contributions: $3.15 - Sabbath Meeting: 4th.
1883
Six Mile Pond Hernando - Pastor: R. E. Bell - Delegates: J. P. Smith
Received by letter: 1 - Dismissed: 1 - Died: 1 - Loss: 2 - Gain: 1 -
Total Membership: 35
Contributions: $2.75 - Time of Meeting: 4th Sunday.
1884
Six Mile Pond - Pastor: R. T. Caddin - Clerk and their P.O.: James P.
Smith, Tuckertown - Messengers: H. D. Ryals and James Kersey
Total Membership: 25 - Contributions: $2.10 - Sabbaths of Meeting: 2nd.
Six Mile Pond - Pastor: R. T. Caddin -
Delegates: J. P. Smith
and Ban Guy
Baptised:5 - Received by letter: 3 - Expelled: 1 - Dismissed: 4 - Total
Membership: 28
Time of Meeting: 2nd Sunday. Six Mile Pond Hernando County - Pastor and
P.O. H. D. Ryals, Richland - Clerk and P.O. E. M. Branch, Richland
Total Membership: 41 - Meeting: 2nd Sabbath.
Six Mile Pond - Pastor H. D. Ryals -
Representatives: Eustis
Smith
Baptised: 7 - Received: 2 Dismissed: 5 - Total Membership: 35 -
Contributions: $2.10
1888
Not represented.
1889
Six Mile Pond - Delegates: J. P. Smith and J. D. Hill
Increase by Letter: 2 - Baptism: 7 Restored: 5 - Decrease by letter: 5
Expelled: 6 - Total Membership: 45.
1890
Six Mile Pond - Delegates: H. D. Ryals
Increase by Letter: 4 - Baptism: 4 - Restored: 1 - Decrease by letter:
5
Died: 1 - Expelled: 5 - Total Membership: 42.
1891
Six Mile Pond Pasco County - Pastor and P.O.: R. T. Caddin, Richland -
Clerk and P.O.: D. H. Ryals, Abbott
Increase by letter: 3 - Baptism: 6 - Decrease By letter: - By
exclusion:2 - Died: 1
Membership last year: 44 - Present Membership: Males 18 - Females 24 -
Total Membership: 42.
1892
Six Mile Pond Pasco County - Pastor and P.O. B.L. Ray, Dade City -
Clerk and P.O: H. D. Ryals, Abbott
Increase by Baptism: 1 - By letter: 5 Decrease by letter: 1 - By
exclusion: 7
Membership last year: 42 - Total Membership: 40.
1893
Six Mile Pond - Pastor and P.O. B. L. Ray, Pasadena - Clerk and P.O. D.
H. Ryals, Abbott
Increase by Baptism: 5 - By letter: 5 - By restoration: 1 - Decrease by
letter:2 - By exclusion: 1 - Died: 1
Membership last year: 32 - Membership: Males 15 - Females 24 -
Membership last year32 - Total Membership: 39:
1898
Six Mile Pond Pastor: R. T. Caddin, Tampa - Clerk: M. J. Kersey, Abbott
Received by letter: 6 - Dismissed by letter: 1 - Expelled: 7
Membership: Males 17 - Females 24 - Total Membership: 41.
1899
Six Mile Pond - Exclusion: 2
Membership: Males: 14 - Females: 25 - Total Membership: 39
1900
Six Mile Pond Pasco County - Organized: 1878
Increase by Baptism: 11 - By Letter: 6 - By restoration: 1 - Died: 1
Membership: Males 19 - Females 37 - Total Membership:56.
The Peter Karr Baillie family from Georgia just after the Civil War and extablished a trading post at Bailey's Bluff and later moved inland.The Barga family, Boyd family and Brown family, John and Mary also settled in the area. John G. "Gip" Brown who once owned Green Key and his wife Cora Stevenson Brown. Other Families were Clark family, Digman family, Edenfields family Frierson and the Gaines family. Benjamin H. Gaines served as Delegate for the Anclote Baptist Church and was a Trustee for the School Board. Basil Gaines served as Sheriff for Pasco County.
The Gause family, Harper family, Hill family and the Milbauer Family were in the area at this time. Richard Milbauer donated the cemetery property to the county. Other Families were Ransom and Russ of Elfers. John and Mary Sawyer, early settlers of the area are known to be interred at West Elfers Cemetery, but the location of their graves are unknown. The Sheffields came to the area from Georgia in the 1860s, other families were Smith, Stephens and Stevenson.
Other early settlers were Wiggins and Williams The James Whidden family who settled the Hidden Lakes area in the 1860's. Their sons Daniel and Crockett were killed during the "fued" the occuted in the late 1800's. Jacob Worley's family settled the Worley Lake and Lake Worrell Areas in the 1860's
Thank you,Patricia "Curley" Bronson, for submitting the information on the churches and the early families in the area.
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