Mt Pisgah Primitive Baptist Church

Mt. Pisgah Primitive Baptist Church
(more photos Mt. Pisgah page 2)
             Mount Pisgah Primitive Baptist Church was established on June 20, 1840. This pretty little white church and it’s beautifully kept cemetery is located four miles east of Duck Hill, Mississippi just off Hwy. 404 in Montgomery County. Mount Pisgah is one of the oldest churches in Montgomery County. The land for Mount Pisgah was donated by Elder John Prevatte Taylor and his wife Hughanna Carr Taylor. At the time the church was established the area was known as Bennett’s Settlement and was in the Carroll County Territory. Elder John Prevatte Taylor came to this area from Washington County, Ala in 1836.
            Elder Taylor was ordained in 1812 in Sandy Creek Baptist Church in Butler County, Kentucky.
       In 1840 the Baptist in Bennett’s Settlement by letter of request obtained the following brethren, Elder Simpson Parks, Eli Lankford, and Francis Baker who were organized into a Presbytery brethren. Francis Baker presided, Luke Robertson, clerk examined and organized the following Brethren and Sisters as the first members into the church.

Elder John Prevatte Taylor
James Pittman
Thomas W. Shepherd
Henry Epperson
M.B. Denmon
Solomon Bennett
Eligah Stephens

Nancy Pittman
Sinia Taylor ( John Prevatte’s Daughter)
Elizabeth Carpenter
Harriet Pyron
Ruth Groves
Mary Pyron
Liddia Forister

The following is a list of Taylor Family Members that joined the church later

Hughanna Carr Taylor
Nathaniel Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
Martha Taylor
Mary C. Taylor
Nathaniel Poe
Eliza Ann Taylor
J.W. Poe
Anguime Taylor
Antonette Taylor
W.A. Taylor
Caroline Taylor

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This information was obtained from the “History of Montgomery County”
written by Evelyn Bell Crouch.
There is a homecoming service at Mt Pisgah Church on the 4th Sunday in May
every year. I am told that this is really a big gathering.