Page 2 - Excerpts from "A Concise History of the Introduction of Protestantism into Mississippi & the Southwest" by John Griffing Jones |
Grave of my 4-g-uncle, Richard Curtis, Jr., who started the first Baptist Church in the Southwest Flordia Parishes in abt. 1788 (the second church of any denomination started in the territory); and who was responsible for building six churches in surrounding counties.. Died: October 28, 1811, at the home of his sister, Hannah Curtis Courtney, on Beaver's Creek, in Amite County, MS. |