Chapel Hill
Presbyterian Church was organized at Bethany Presbyterian Church on Crooked
Creek in 1803 in what was then Livingston County. When Crittenden County was
created in 1842, the church was located in the new county. In 1845, Marion became the Crittenden County
seat and the congregation moved to the site of Old Marion Cemetery, where
a brick building was built. A group of
67 members seceded in 1881 and, in 1883, the church was organized and named
Chapel Hill. The church was dedicated 20 July 1884. In 1955, the church
celebrated its 150th anniversary.[1]
The church
doors closed in July 1967 and the church's cemetery committee voted to have the
building torn down in 1996 as it was no longer safe.[2]
Buried in
Chapel Hill Cemetery are several of my relatives, including my great-great-great-grandmother,
Martha Rebecca (Vaughn) Lewis. Watch
for a post on the Lewis family coming up. Martha Rebecca has a story to tell.
Chapel Hill Church
Photographed 25 March 2015
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