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RRISBURG, ILLINOISMONDAY, JUNE 24,1985PAGE 12~ ’ ‘ ‘ k*-%* •5«Mv *«**!*Marker dedicatedA memorial service dedicating a marker for a Revolutionary War soldier and pioneering Baptist minister was held Sunday afternoon at the Bankston Fork Missionary Baptist Church in rural Saline County west of Harrisburg. The man, Wilson Henderson, died in what is now Saline County in 1847, after having served during the Revolutionary War as a member of the South Carolina militia, fighting in a number of battles across North and South Carolina. Church historian Ralph Harrelson, left, of McLeansboro, told the group assembled that Henderson served in South Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee before moving to Southern Illinois in 1818. Henderson helped found the predecessor of the Bankston Fork Church, plus the Bethel Creek, Middle Fork and Union Baptist churches in Saline County, plus Lick Creek Baptist Church in White County and Ten Mile Baptist Church in Hamilton County, and played an important part in forming the Muddy River Baptist Association, the earliest association in the southern part of the state. He died at the age of 85. American Legion posts Nos. 364 and 167, of Carrier Mills and Harrisburg, performed military rites as Harrelson, Bankston Fork pastor Donald G. Nelson,- Dr. James Baldwin, pastor of Long Branch Baptist; and Ronald L. Nelson, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Elizabethtown, look on. (Register photo—Bob Bondurant)
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Harrisburg Daily Register
Harrisburg, Illinois, US
Mon, Jun 24, 1985
Page 12
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