New Ebenezer Baptist Church

Sign for New Ebenezer Baptist Church.

New Ebeneezer Baptist Church Cemetery

NEW EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH & CEMETERY
Township 11,Range 17,Section 16 on county road 68 south west of Highland Home. New Harmony church was organized in a Brush Arbor in 1850.The first building was made of logs.The State of Alabama, Lowndes County, August 13, 1855 (Lowndes County at this time)at a meeting held by Bro. Bell and Bro. Nixon, the members of The Missionary Baptist Order met in a constitution. Bro. Bell, moderator; Treasurer by Bro. Dixon, after which the Presbytery Church, New Ebenezer was elected the name. The brethren went into choice of a deacon when Bro. James Douglas was chosen and James J. Hudson was selected Church clerk.
The New Ebenezer Church house was built in the SE 1-4 of SE 1-4, Section 16, Township 11, Range 17, Lowndes County, AL. This Township 11 became a part of Crenshaw County when Crenshaw County was organized which was the year 1867. The house has remained on the same identical spot of ground throughout the church's existence. September 8, 1855 – The first pastor was called Bro. J. L. Nixon.
Isaac M Nichols,called into the War between the states.He and his folks & a few friends spent the day together the day before he left for the War ,in about 1862.The day was spent at New Harmony Church.It is said of older people that Uncle Reub McDonald and a old Negro held membership in New Harmony Church years after the War between the states.