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Marshall County Church Histories
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Organization Of Philadelphia Presbyterian Church
Marshall County, Mississippi
The Red Banks Presbyterian Church was organized in 1844 under the name of Philadelphia Church, by the Presbytery of Chickasaw, Synod of Mississippi. It was the 15th church to be organized in the North Mississippi Presbytery. In the first statistical report, that of 1857, the members numbered 44.
No mention of the minister who organized the church could be found, and neither was there a list of the charter members kept. All were destroyed when the first book of minutes of the Session was burned.
The name, Philadelphia, was given this church because some of the earliest communicants had earlier been members of Old Philadelphia Church, built on Clear Creek in North Carolina, by their ancestors who migrated there from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Members of this congregation had fond memories of their "old meeting house" (Philadelphia) in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, so it was natural that they should call their new church by that name.
RULING ELDERS AND DEACONS
A.M. Flinn 1863
F.G. Newell 1867
Dr. R.W. Martin 1868
A.O. Canon 1875
John Seabrook
S.T. Power
F.W. Canon
J.W. McRae
W.H. Newell
M.L. Mebane 1905
Joe Mahon 1929
Geo.S.Goodman 1939
R.G. Houston 1939
Lilburn Armour 1953
L. Houston Armour 1953
Zell G. Simmons 1953
Hal R. Moore 1953
DEACONS
H.H. Pipkin
W.S. Hatcher
W.H. Newell
Geo. S. Goodman
S.T. Power
E.D. Power
W.H. Canon
Russell G. Houston
J.O. Dockery
Sam P. Goodman
[Submitted by: Joe Perry]