Crooked Creek Primitive Baptist Church
Iola, Oskaloosa township, Clay county, Illinois
Crooked Creek Primitive Baptist Church, 11944 Xenia-Iola Road, Farina, Illinois 62838
Services 2nd Sunday of each month 10:30 a.m. Elder Robert Webb, pastor.
The first meeting house of Crooked Creek Church was a log structure, erected at the site of what is now known as the "Old Baptist Cemetery." It was used until destroyed by fire. In 1864, a building was erected at the present site, in what was called the "Hickory Grove," about one mile south of Iola, Illinois. A few oak pews, and a cabinet, from this building, have survived, some of which will be used in the new building. A larger frame building was erected at the same site, in 1904-1905, which stood until it was demolished and burned on December 3, 2010. The slat pews, wainscoating, chairrail, woodwork around doors and windows, the pulpit platform and arch boards, and other salvageable materials had been removed, and are being used in the construction and furnishing of the new building.
Crooked Creek Church was prospering 100 years ago. Will it survive and grow again? Please pray that it will.
This is May 1911 dinner on the grounds.
Condition of the church building in the 1970's, newly painted.
The old building was beyond repair. It was demolished and burned on December 3, 2010.
Broken trees, and trees too close to the new building site have also been removed and burned.
A new church sign was installed on November 29, 2010.
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