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E EARLY CHURCHES 83 .
Hughes, Sarah McCoughtry, Susan Holt, Elizabeth Graham,
William Gardner, and Barbara McElroy. Services were held in
a small brick building known as Union Academy, on South Mor-
, gan Street, until 1843, when a building designed to combine a
  church and a seminary was erected. This was used until 1872 _
l when the present church was built. A Presbyterian congregation,
Q organized at Uniontown in 1851, held services in a tobacco
l factory for several years. In 1877 a small church was erected.
i The Christian Church, founded in Kentucky by a former Pres-
i byterian minister, the Rev. Barton W. Stone, is another of those
religious organizations which took root in the revival meetings of
the McGhee brothers in Logan County. Stone attended these I 
meetings and was so impressed he organized a camp meeting of
his own, at Cane Ridge Meeting House, Bourbon County. As a
consequence of this meeting, described as the "most remarkable
assemblage ever known on the continent," Stone, with his entire
congregation, withdrew from the Presbyterian fellowship and .
C organized an independent church to which he gave the name  
Christian. Later, in 1832, Stone merged his organization with
that of Alexander Campbell since the two men found themselves
i in agreement in all essential doctrines. Campbell called his
church Disciples of Christ, but the Kentucky branch of that
organization has retained the name Christian.
The first church of the Christian denomination in Union
County came into being in 1838 under the leadership of one Elder
Graham of Illinois. The first meetings were held at the home of
i Isham Sellers and later at that of Daniel Hopgood. In 1844 a
, lot was secured and a small frame building erected. This served
l the congregation until 1894, when a larger and more commodious
1 brick building was dedicated. When the Christian congregation ,
L was organized at Uniontown. services were held at first in vacant
I buildings and after 1848 in the Baptist Church which was free
? for the use of all denominations. During the War between the
States services were conducted regularly by a chaplain in the
Confederate Army. In 1893 the congregation dedicated a new
building. In addition to Morganfield and Uniontown. Christian
congregations were organized during the latter half of the nine-
teenth century at Cypress (later Sturgis), Caseyville, Shiloh,
_ Bordley, New Liberty, and Seven Gums.