Foundation of Brandywine Baptist Church


       Brandywine (later known as Fairland) Baptist church was
organized July 30, 1832, with the following as first members: James V.
A. Woods, Lewis Morgan, D. A. M. Morgan, William C. C. Morgan, Henry
Serber, A.M. Morgan, Levi Bishop, Sarah Oldham, Nancy Morgan, Nancy
Oldham, Nancy Hubble and Mary Bishop.  The church was first located
near the town of Brandywine, six miles northwest of Shelbyville.  The
location was changed in 1859 to Fairland. From 1832 to 1837 services
were held from house to house, but in June, 1833, it was decided to
build, but the edifice was not completed until 1837.  Rev. William
G. Eaton preached the first sermon in this building. The church
building at Fairland was built and first occupied in 1860, and Rev.
John Reece was the first to preach in the same.  The present
membership is one hundred and forty. The edifice erected in 1860 still
serves.

From: Chadwick's History of Shelby County, IN. page 159.
by:   Edward H. Chadwick, B.A.
Pub:  1909. B.F. Bowen & Co. Indianaplis, IN.
entered: 1995, Dennis Nicklaus