84 UNION COUNTY PAST AND PRESENT
- St. John’s Episcopal Church at Uniontown was built about l
A l 1870, though a congregation had been organized at a much B
earlier date. Before the church was built, the few Episcopalians
in the community held services in the Baptist church. In 1882 the ,
· new church was consecrated by Bishop T. U. Dudley, at that
time assistant bishop of the Diocese of Kentucky.
There were few Negro churches in Kentucky until after eman-
cipation, Negro slaves generally attending the churches of their
masters. A gallery was usually set aside for the use of Negroes.
Sometimes services were held in schoolhouses or vacant churches
where Negro preachers were in charge. There is record of a
Negro slave, Andy Parker, being licensed to "exhort" in Union
County in 1850. It is stated that this old preacher was noted for
piety and for labors among his people. Today Negroes of Mor-
ganiield have four churches: the Missionary Baptist, Freewill
Baptist, Methodist, and Church of God. Uniontown has three, the
Mount Pleasant Baptist, built in 1879; the Methodist, organized
in 1872; and the Colored Sanctified Church.
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