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MACON COUNTY CHURCHES
In pioneer days, itinerant  preachers more commonly known as circuit riders traveled the countryside.  An  early Macon County pastor, Elder J.W. Cook of Elmer, recalls his remarkable  record of 45 years:  sermons preached, 5,784; miles traveled, 35,840; weddings  performed, 780; miles traveled to officiate at weddings, 15,600; funerals  preached, 936; miles traveled for funerals, 18,720—all on horseback or on foot. 
  
Among the first churches organized  in Macon County were the Little Zion Baptist near Elmer, 1836; Big Spring church  north of Macon, 1839; Blanket Grove near La Plata, 1840; Mt. Tabor Baptist east  of Atlanta, 1840; Bethlehem Methodist southwest of Anabel, 1840; Mt. Salem  Baptist southwest of Excello, 1841; Liberty Cumberland Presbyterian, 1841;  Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian south of La Plata, 1843; Antioch Christian  southwest of Bevier, 1850; and Bethlehem Church at Sue City,
1850.

By 1913 Macon County had the  following denominations represented in its towns:  Baptist, Primitive Baptist,  Congregationalist, Disciples of Christ, Lutheran, Methodist Episcopal, Southern  Methodist, African Methodist, Presbyterian U.S.A., Cumberland Presbyterian,  Southern Presbyterian, Episcopal, and Catholic.  

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