Buck Creek Baptist Church

The Holiday's are over and a new year has begun. With the beginning of a new year we'll look at the beginning of the first church building for Buck Creek Baptist Church. I have come to realize that our family history can not be researched without also researching the history of Buck Creek Church. The two are intertwined to the point that one would be incomplete without the other. Our ancestor's have been attending Buck Creek Church since the very beginning.

The people of the community came together in worship 230 years ago and among those attending was Smith and Rebecca Bostick Elder. Smith and other men of the congregation came prepared with guns to fight off the Indians during worship. The services were held outside until the construction of the first church building. The land for this church was donated by Smith and Rebecca. I have been told by some that the first church was actually located behind the cemetery, but I have no proof.



If you come from my generation and you are a grandchild of Wyatt and Ethel Hughey Williams then Smith and Rebecca would be your great great great grandparents. The tree would go like this: Smith and Rebecca were the parents of Elizabeth and Susan who in turn were the Mothers of Jim Ab and Lou Humphries Hughey, respectively. As I told you once before Jim Ab and Lou were first cousins.

One other note. The church was named Buck Creek after the creek that once ran just a few yards away. The creek is know part of Lake Blalock. The pioneer's of the area named the creek buck because buck's came to satisfy their thirst on it's shores.