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Concord Presbyterian
Church
Anderson County, South Carolina Genealogy
Trails
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Traditions & History of
Anderson County by Louise Ayer
Vandiver
Concord, another A. R. P. Church, has a
history dating back as far as 1796, and possibly
earlier. Reverend Peter McMullin was its first
pastor. The original building was of logs, and it
served its people long and well. But the hand of
time finally fell so heavilyupon the ancient structure,
that its congregation found it necessaryfor a time to
hold services in the Midway Presbyterian church.
In 1845 a new building was erected, the members of the
congregation contributing the different parts, one
sills, another flooring, another weather boarding until
everything needful had been supplied. In 1900 the
present building was erected.
In July, 1904, Dr Pressley, Messrs.
Robert Moorhead and Robert Stevenson were appointed by
the superintendent of missions of the Second Presbytery
to organize from Concord congregation a church in the
city of Anderson. The old Concord church was
soldto a Baptist congregation, but Mr. Robert Moorhead
gave them the ground of which it stood. In its
surrounding grave yard, and also oneacross the road,
sleep some of the pioneers of the A. R. P.
faith.
In early
times the A. R. Ps. were close communicants, and each
church member was given a pewter coin which he had to
show before he was allowed to take
communion.
In 1810 the Presbyterian church in
council assembled determined that a woman who had
married her deceased sister's husband, should be
debarred from communion. However, a man who had
married a woman who had been unchaste, not knowing her
character, and she after marriage having again fallen
into the same sin, left her; but not having obtained a
divorce, after a time married again, his first wife
being still alive, askedto be received into that same
church. After some discussion he was admitted,
though "great care is recommended in such
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Concord Presbyterian Church cemetery is located on the
grounds of the
church.
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