First Presbyterian Church

of Port Gibson, MS

INFORMATION FROM SOUTHWESTERN PRESBYTERIAN

SEPTEMBER 14, 1871 AND MARCH 12, 1891,

RETRIEVED AT THE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION

AT MONTREAT, NORTH CAROLINA.

The original members composing the “Bayou Pierre Church” and then incorporated into Bethel Church and First Presbyterian Church in Port Gibson

NAME, IN FULL	DATE OF ADMISSION	HOW RECEIVED	DISMISSED: WHEN AND WHITHER	DIED	REMARKS
Elder Alexander Armstrong			1st Pres. Ch., Port Gibson, Miss.
Elder James Harmon				1817	Claiborne Co., Will Book A, page 83, 9/16/1817
Elder Elias Flower				1816	Claiborne Co., Will Book A, page 111, 8/2/1816
Elder John Bolls			Bethel Ch.		Was a noble old man, with a little body but a big soul, and who loaned himself about among the churches as an Elder until other Elders arose
Mrs. Esther Benjamin			1st Pres. Ch., Port Gibson, Miss.
Mrs. Anna Crane	1860		1st Pres. Ch., Port Gibson, Miss
Mrs. Elizabeth Bridewell			1st Pres. Ch., Port Gibson, Miss
Mrs. Catherine Crane			Bethel Ch.
Mrs. Martha Clark			1st Pres. Ch., Port Gibson, Miss
Mrs. Matilda Carpenter			1st Pres. Ch., Port Gibson, Miss.
Mr. Alexander Guy			1st Pres. Ch., Port Gibson, Miss.
Mrs. Ann F. Hunt			Bethel Ch.
Mrs. Elizabeth Jenkins			1st Pres. Ch., Port Gibson, Miss.
Mrs. Nancy Jenkins			1st Pres. Ch., Port Gibson, Miss.
David Hunt			Bethel Ch.
Mrs. Elisa Ker			Bethel Ch.
Mrs. Lucinda Maury			1st Pres. Ch., Port Gibson, Miss.
Mrs.Malvina McAlpin			1st Pres. Ch., Port Gibson, Miss.
Mr. Alexander Murphy			1st Pres. Ch., Port Gibson, Miss.
Mrs. Catherine Murphy			1st Pres. Ch., Port Gibson, Miss.
Dr. Rush Nutt			Bethel Ch.
Mrs. Nutt			Bethel Ch.
Lewellin Price			Bethel Ch.		Grandfather of Rev. Robert Price
Mrs. Catherine Putnam			1st Pres. Ch., Port Gibson, Miss.
Mrs. Sarah Rhodes			1st Pres. Ch., Port Gibson, Miss.
William Young			Bethel Ch.
Clara Young			Bethel Ch.