Excerpts  from

"Directory of Churches, Missions, and Religious Institutions of Tennessee: 

Knox County, Knoxville"

The Tennessee Historical Records Survey, Work Projects Administration

1941

 

DISCIPLES OF CHRIST:

Boards, Publications & Institutions:

Name & Location (as of 1941) Name of Executive (as of 1941)

International Convention of Disciples of Christ
Mission Bldg
Indianapolis, Indiana

Rev. H. B. McCormick, President

United Christian Missionary Society
Mission Bldg
Indianapolis, Indiana
Rev. Robert M. Hopkins, President
Tennessee Christian Missionary Society
Gale Lane
Nashville, Tennessee
Rev. Robert L. Harrell, President
Board of the Tennessee Christian Missionary Society Rev. Roger T. Nooe, Chairman
Livingston Academy
Livingston, Tennessee
Rev. J. C. Taylor, Principal
Milligan College
Milligan, Tennessee
Rev. C. E. Burns, President
The Tennessee Christian Rev. Wilfred P. Harman and
Martha F. James, Editors

Churches:

Status (1941) Name & Location of
Church or Institution
Date Organized Name of Pastor or Executive (1941)
Active East Vine Avenue Church (Col.)
502 E. Vine Ave.
1890 Rev. Erastus A. Daniels
Active First Christian Church
217 W. Fifth Ave.
1874 Rev. Harry R. Cooke
Active Forest Avenue Church
Forest Ave. and Seventeenth St.
1897 Rev. Charles A. Vaughn
Active Gap Creek Church
Hendron's Chapel Road
Kimberlin Heights
1928 Rev. Chester Owens
Active Lonsdale Christian Church
101 E. Delaware Ave.
1905 Rev. J. Frank Williams
Active Thorn Grove Church
Thorn Grove Road
1867 Rev. Adam Adcock
Defunct Broadway Christian Church
1015 N. Broadway
1907-35 Rev. Gilbert Chandler
Defunct Christian Church (Col.)
717 Water St.
1884-1917 Rev. Henry Grigsby
Defunct Fountain City Church
4618 N. Broadway
Fountain City
1915-1918 No regular pastor
Defunct Huckleberry Church
Strawberry Plains Road
1923-25 No regular pastor
Defunct Piney Grove Church (Col.)
Piney Grove
Rt. 15
1917-25 No regular pastor

Missions:

Status (1941) Name & Location of
Church or Institution
Date Organized Name of Pastor or Executive (1941)
Active Bernard Street Mission
1010 Bernard St.
1939 Floyd Clark, Superintendent
Defunct Walnut Grove Mission
Walnut Grove, Byington
1921 No regular pastor

Institutions:

Status (1941) Name & Location of
Church or Institution
Date Organized Name of Pastor or Executive (1941)
Active Johnson Bible College
Kimberlin Heights
1893 Rev. Robert M. Bell, President

Unassociated:

Status (1941) Name & Location of
Church or Institution
Date Organized Name of Pastor or Executive (1941)
Active Erin Christian Church
Kingston Pike, Bearden
1877 Elder Albert Applegarth

 

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