CHRONOLOGY OF FBC, MURFREESBORO & RUTHERFORD COUNTY

1767Uriah ___________, a hunter/fur trapper, explores most of what is now

known as ___________ River in a canoe. The non-Indian population of what is
now middle Tennessee is ________.
1775-1783the American Revolution. Land _________ afterwards lead to an
explosion of white ____________. By _______, the population of middle
Tennessee is ____________; by 1810, it is ___________.
1800a series of frontier ___________ involving ______________,
_________________, and Presbyterian preachers breaks out along the
________________/Kentucky border, lasting just a few years but bringing
thousands of new _______________ and led to the formation of many new area
churches.
1800the first two __________ churches in Rutherford County are formed:
Republican Grove, now known as _______________ and Mt. Pleasant.
1811_________________ founded.
The Restoration _______________, a back to the original church emphasis,
was another long-term ___________ of the frontier revivals. The two main
______________ were Barton Stone and Alexander Campbell. The largest
church to come out of it is the __________ of ________.
1812the Presbyterian Church in Murfreesboro is begun.
1820the first record of a ____________ Baptist church in Mboro. Was located
on the Square along with 20 _____________.
1823the _____________ Church in Mboro is begun.
1824according to John Spence, a Mboro merchant, the denomination of
local ____________
could be determined by how they _____________.
1827Alexander Campbell begins ___________ in some _____________
churches in middle Tennessee.
1833Followers of the __________ of Christ in Mboro begin meeting in the
___________ of its members.
Baptist ______________ during the first half of the ________ Century:
1) ___________ and Calvinism
2) ___________ washing

3) An ______________ clergy
4) The __________ of ____________
1818-1825Mboro is the state ___________ of Tennessee.
1841Joseph Eaton comes to Mboro to teach at ____________ University, the
new Baptist College which initially met at ___________Academy. He was also a
very popular _______ preacher in middle Tennessee.
1843Mboro has a population of ___________.
June 9, 1843Eighteen persons met at Fletchers ______________ in what is
now southeast Mboro to organize the __________ Baptist Church of
___________. They had no ___________ and no ___________, but they ordained
three __________. They also ordained Joseph Eaton to preach but did not
________ him as the ____________. Instead, they called Robert __________ as the
____________ pastor. He served seven _________ until Eaton was called as the
first pastor.
Eaton served both Union University and the Baptist Church for _______ years
until he died at age 46, ______ and ________ out in 1858. He was buried on
the grounds of Union. When that school was moved to Jackson, TN, after the
_________ _________, he was reburied in a large ______ in Evergreen Cemetery.
Baptisms were conducted in Ledbetter __________ on Shelbyville Pike.

FBC AND THE CIVIL WAR

1845the Concord Baptist Association, which had been organized in
_________ purchased a ___________ (who was also an __________ Baptist
minister) named Edmon Kelly to minister to area slaves.
1845the Southern Baptist Convention was formed as a result of the Baptist
denominational __________________ societys refusal to appoint missionaries
who __________ slaves.
1853our church hired Nelson Merry, a ________ black, to minister to the
churchs black _____________.
1860Lincoln elected US President in ___________. In April, 1861, Ft. Sumter
is attacked, beginning the Civil War. In June, Tennessee becomes the _______
state to join the Confederacy.

1862by the late Spring, Mboro is ________________ by Union forces. Nathan

Bedford Forrest attacks and defeats Union forces in a ____________ attack on
Mboro in July.
December 31, 1862-January 2, 1863the Battle of _______ ___________. Union
forces defeat Confederates and never lose control of Mboro. Martial _______
is imposed, with any assembly of __________ being outlawed, even for
__________ worship. Church members of all denominations meet in very
__________ groups in members __________. The sanctuary of the ____________
church (at the corner of Sevier and Spring Streets) had been used by both
sides as a ___________, leaving the building unusable for services after the
war. Instead, church members vote to give it to the _________ __________ to
become their own facility. Today, that church is known as __________
__________, Castle Street.
The building of the East Main ____________ of ____________ is used as a worship
facility for Union forces. One of the most frequent __________ is James
Garfield, the Chief of Staff for the ___________ Army of the Cumberland. Later
in life, he becomes the ________ President of the United States.
Revivals in the Camps---a total of approximately ________________ soldiers on
both sides were converted. The Great __________ happened in R.E. Lees
forces in Fall of 1863/Winter of 1864, resulting in _________ converts.
General William Rosecrans---was a devout __________ and attended Mass
________. He __________ to order his forces to _________ on Sundays.