Organized in 1873, is a small body of very poor churches, located in
Jackson county. There were a few rich slaveholders in said county,
among whom was the Rev. Charles Roach, Sr. On his plantation there were
three preachers, one Methodist and two Baptist. The Baptist preachers
were Thomas and Perkins. Like many other ex-slaves, they retained the
name of their master, and became known as Revs. Thomas and Perkins
Roach. Rev. Robert Caver, at an early date after the close of the
war, came into the county a Baptist preacher. These men became the
organizers of the work in this county. The county is no longer so full
of colored people as once it was, and hence the churches are very small
and can’t support their pastors. Revs. James Larkin, Lewis Roach, T.
J. Roach, Lewis Henshaw, F. Cobb, C. L. Lovelady, J. W. Robinson are
doing what they can to keep up the work but they labor under great
difficulties. It is the purpose of some to attempt to establish a
school at Hollywood. If this project should mature there is a prophecy
of better conditions in time to come.