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Text from the Church Bell Plaque
\n<\/b>\u201cThe first Methodist church in the Kentucky area of the Jackson Purchase, Mt. Vernon, was located 2 1\/2\u00a0 miles east near the intersection of Highways 68 and 58 by Circuit Rider Parson Ogden.\u00a0 Closed in 1852, members established Briensburg and Arkadelphia.\u00a0 Arkadelphia was located one mile northeast of Mt. Vernon.\u00a0 Its building and land were sold in 1884.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Briensburg, once incorporated, was laid out in 17 city blocks.
\n<\/b>James Boyd Brien, a blacksmith by trade, settled in the area later to be named for him around 1819. James Brien served in the state legislature and was instrumental in the founding of Marshall County.\u00a0 Briensburg incorporated in 1861. By 1894, Briensburg claimed three general stores, one millinery shop, two blacksmiths, two churches (Christian and Methodist), one large school, a Masonic Lodge, a hotel, a tobacco warehouse, and three doctors. (Courtesy of James Boyd \u201cBuck\u201d Brien).
\nFrom\u00a0<\/i>Marshall County<\/i>\u00a0by Connie Huddleston, Carol Aldridge, Virginia Smith, page 80<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
Historical Highlights Timeline
\n<\/b>1823 \u2014 Dunn Methodist Episcopal Church, the first in the Kentucky area of Jackson Purchase, organized by Parson Ogden at the homes of Farrar Dunn and McGilberry Wyatt.
\n1826 \u2014 First building erected and name changed to Mt. Vernon
\n1854 \u2014 Briensburg Methodist Episcopal Church, South organized by members of the former Mt. Vernon church
\n1948 \u2014 Brick structure erected to replace the original wooden facility
\nFrom\u00a0<\/i>The History of Marshall County\u00a0<\/i>by Leon Leis Freeman and Edward C. Olds<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Historical Record of Pastors
\n<\/b>Clergy appointed to Briensburg UMC
\nfrom Memphis Conference Archives<\/i><\/p>\n

2025 Steve Milam
\n2004\u00a0William H. Lawson, Jr.
\n2003 Frank W. Bratt
\n1997 Stephen Mark Earheart
\n1993\u00a0Lynn H. Humston
\n1990\u00a0Larry N. Woodruff
\n1989\u00a0Robert E. Farless
\n1984\u00a0Gregory H. Waldrop
\n1983\u00a0Paul Joseph Harting
\n1980 Jerry E. Bell
\n1975\u00a0James E. Stubbs
\n1971 T. Wright Pillow
\n1969 Orville Easley
\n1967 George A. Carter
\n1965 Wm. T. Lucas
\n1962 A. Glenn Kesterson
\n1961 J.N. Forbes
\n1955 Orville Easley
\n1953 F.B. Alexander
\n1952 J.A. Collier
\n1950 B.A Walker
\n1947 A.G. Childers
\n1944 John E. Weir, Sr.
\n1943 W.M. Jones
\n1939 E.A. Phillips
\n1938 Steadman T. Bagby,
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A.N. Walker , O.H. Boatwright
\n<\/i>1937 G. S. Smith
\n1936 J. D. Wilford
\n1933 Voris H. Burnett,\u00a0E.L. Morgan
\n<\/i>1932 W.D. Dunn
\n1931 E. B. Rains,\u00a0S.F. Sands
\n<\/i>1930 Voris Burnett
\n1928 J. E. James,\u00a0L.A. Crew
\n<\/i>1927 H. A. Goforth
\n1926 H. T. Sanson
\n1925 L. A. Crews
\n1924 E. M. Buck
\n1923 C. C. Cason
\n1921 A. L. Dickerson
\n1920 F. R. Harper
\n1919 E. M. Buck
\n1918 R. A. McNutt
\n1917 T. K. Harper
\n1914 S. C. Evans
\n1910 W. A. Baker
\n1909 H. J. Johnson
\n1907 J. G. Jones
\n1906 J. T. Ricketts
\n1904 J. R. Womble
\n1903 N. W. Lee
\n1901 W. T. Elmore
\n1900 W. D. Dunn
\n1899 A. H. Bezzo
\n1898 H. B. Terry
\n1895 R. S. Harrison
\n1893 Rufus E. Humphrey
\n1892 A. L. Dallas
\n1890 T.N. Wilkes
\n1888 William Murray
\n1887 Peter Hunt Fields
\n1885 A. F. Sears
\n1884 Henry C. Gramble
\n1883 W. J. Naylor
\n1882 Charles Dudley Hilliard
\n1880 G. W. Evans
\n1878 J. R. Hardin
\n1876 W. G. Heffley
\n1875 Henry C. Gamble
\n1874 Walter R. Burke
\n1873 J. G. Glasgow
\n1872 James R. Dycus
\n1871 S. A. Mason
\n1870 James R. Dycus
\n1868 R.R. Nelson
\n1867 James R. Dycus
\n1864 W.W. Fawcett
\n1861 James R. Dycus
\n1860 Thomas C. Ellis
\n1859 D. C. Johnson, M.D. Robinson
\n1858 R.A. Neblett, M.D. Robinson
\n1857 Hillen A. Bourland, E.B. Plummer
\n1856 Emsley B. Plummer, Willam F. Melugin
\n1855 F.M. Morris, A.L. Hunsaker
\n1854 Jasper A. Mason,\u00a0James N. Hawkins<\/p>\n

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