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Eulia Church History Part Two
In nineteen hundred and forty-three during the maneuvers of world war two, the pastor and members of Eulia Church voted to build a new General Baptist Church. At that time Brother Horace Jenkins was the pastor and they selected Joe E. Mayes to be superintendent over the construction. His helpers on smaller jobs were: Lawrence Woodard and Ethridge Dodson but the church being a larger building, there were several employees of which I will try to name at this time, Joe Mayes, Lawrence Woodard, Ethridge Dodson, Alton Brown, Wiseman Harrison, Author Vance, and Tom Henson. Since Mr. Vance and Mr. Henson had family members belonging to the church, they many have donated their labor.
Times were much harder then and I remember Mr. Henson and Mr. Vester Harrison made up over $750 each that was donated to the building fund, which was considered quite a feat at that time.
Mr. Harrison had a stroke and passed away before the church was finished, however it was far enough along to have his funeral preached there.
There were no bricklayers in this locality at this time and the bricklayers were the Smiths from Red Boiling Springs, Dewey Smith, his son Dewey Jr. and another older brother. Later on the church had an addition added on and Aubrey Sloan laid the brick on this part of the building.
The date now is 1-23-2001 and I am 85 years young and the only carpenter left to have had the pleasure of working on the church, and Dewey Smith Jr. is the only bricklayer still living.
Ethridge Dodson