Churches of Montgomery County, Arkansas

"As the 21st century begins, these rural churches are symbolic of a simpler time. They are places of great meaning and precious memories."

The cemetery is directly across Owley Road from the Church. Use to be the Owley school. June 2000.

The Sweet Home Church about a mile further north on Hwy 27 from the Whittington Cemetery, about four miles from the Mt. Ida.  The Church was dedicated in 1908. The cemetery book says there are four graves behind the church. I couldn't find them. Appears that no regular services are held here. There is a good painting of the church hanging up in the hallway of the courthouse. The gravel road to the right, South Fork Rd, at the church will take you two miles to the McKinney Cemetery and Lake Ouachita. June 2000

Pleasant Hill Primitive Baptist Church, Hurricane Grove (east of Mt Ida). 1996. This building was an old school building from Mt. Ida. Built 1932.  The clerk of the church only has the records back to 1950.  The previous church building was located across the road, about 100 yards near a spring.  Baptisms have taken place at different locations. On Williams Creek and down on the Ouachita River in the past and now on Collier Creek.  This church has a  membership of 18 members in 2001 and Preacher Tim Montgomery commenced two years ago.  Services are held here the first and fourth Sunday with meetings in Oden the 2nd & 3rd Sunday.  Ersale Tillery was preacher here since the mid fifties and for thirty odd years. 

Brother J.W. Standridge was a grandson of Elder Flemon Bates who established the Primitive Baptist Church in 1864 two miles south of Mt Ida.  About 1890 this church divided and Brother Jim Bates and Mandy, his wife; Celia Cogburn, and Brother Jim W. Standridge established the Pleasant Hill Primitive Baptist Church at Hurricane Grove. W.M. Alley was in 1901 and baptized by Elder McGough.  Posted July 2001.

Crystal Hill, Church.
Pentecostal. Pastor Joseph Rowland.
This use to be the old school.

The Pine Ridge Baptist Church.
There are two churches at the cemetery. This one is across the road. The other one is a brick building.

Black Springs Church.

Norman First Baptist

Name this church?

Mt Tabor Church.

Joplin Methodist Church 2001

Montgomery County ArkansasGenWeb Project

In 2004 there were about forty-five churches in Montgomery County.
In 1988 there was a total of 58 churches: 57 Protestant, 1 Catholic

Church should last beyond 11 but not noon on Sunday