Ballew’s
Chapel Free Will Baptist Church
The Ballew’s Chapel Free Will Baptist Church was organized in 1912 by J.A. Kaffka and A.J. Rowlett. The first pastor was J.A. Kaffka and the first deacons were J.R. Ballew, John Butts, J.N. McCoy, Lonnie Anderson, and Lonnie Palmer. Services were held in the Ballew’s Chapel schoolhouse.
In 1938 the Ballew’s Chapel schoolhouse was torn down. A new schoolhouse was built behind the old one. It is believed that the church met in the new schoolhouse. In 1942 the church built a new building about a half of a mile north of the Cemetery and old Ballew’s Chapel school where the Riley house is presently located. In 1946 the Ballew’s Chapel school consolidated with Grubbs and the schoolhouse was moved to Grubbs.
In 1952 built a new church building was built on the Ballew’s Chapel cemetery site (where the old Ballew’s Chapel school once stood).
In 1967 a new additions was made to the church and in 1972 the church built a parsonage just north of the church.
J.A. Kafka--1912 L.C. Doyle--1918 C.H. Palmer--1926 George Million--1929
L.C. Doyle--1931 Ray Watkins--1942 Herman Lewis--1946 Ray Watkins--1948
Part-time Pastors--1949-52
J.W. Blanks--1953 Ray Watkins--1954 Clarence Burton--1955 Clarence Campbell--1960
Grover Terry--1962 Robert Frances--1964 Bill VanWinkle--1966 Richard Bowers--1970
Terrell Holland--1972 Dale Pitts--1975 Russell Johnson--1978 Robert Hidde--1987
Leroy Blankenship--1989 Hoover Lewis--1992 Harlen Johnson--2003 O.D. Winfrey--2006
David Winfrey--2007
J.R. Ballew--1912 John Butts--1912 J.N. McCoy--1912 Lonnie Anderson--1912
Lonnie Palmer--1912 W.A. Bradley--1935 Ray Watkins--1935 H.C. Doyle
W.N. McCoy--1944 J.W. Sexton A.T. Blanks--1944 Joe Woodruff--1946
Virgil Odglen--1954 Earl Clark--1954 George Tubbs--1954 Earl Morgan--1962
Elvis Crotts--1980 Kenneth Clark--1980
