Mary Grove Missionary Baptist Church is on Wiggins Mill Road northwest of Lucama in Springhill township. Founded in 1909, the church is home to branches of the Kent, Renfrow, Jones, Barnes, Creech and Powell families, among others. (Including members of the Gospel Four.)
These photographs, which appear to date from the early 1970s, show the church’s wooden mid-century iteration, an early cornerstone, and the road sign that once identified the church to passersby.
Mary Grove Church today. The sanctuary has undergone several remodels in its 100+ years and is now a modern brick structure with attached offices and meeting space. The cornerstone in the brick plinth shown above is now embedded front left. The church’s cemetery is located behind the parking lot at the far right edge of the image below.
Many thanks to Edith Jones Garnett for sharing family photographs of Mary Grove Church.
So Awesome. Love the history of my home church
Thanks, Tracey! Such a rich history!
Lisa good information I too belong to mary grove and yes we are growing appreciate the info keep up the good work
Thank you!
love the info my current church grandfather was a Deacon there Carlester Mitchell.
Hi,everyone my great grandmother Bertha Meeks is buried there. She does not have a headstone. I never knew her, but I reached out to the church last year and they marked it with a stick for me to find and I was wondering members who were there would there be any church albums that may contain pictures of her? She died September 1992. thank you