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This church was organized on Wednesday, May 13, 1801, at Mrs. McCrackins saw mill, about four miles west of Versailles. It was born in the midst of the greatest revival Kentucky has ever known. All denominations were mightily stirred and in some places the wildest extravagances appeared. Great camp-meetings were held at many places. Religious excitement reached almost a frenzy. Men and women fell fainting to the ground, where they sometimes lay unconscious for hours. The people were affected by the jerks, the barks, the hops and other violent bodily exercises. Happily the Baptist were free from most of these extravagances and profited greatly from the revival. At the meeting of the Elkhorn Association in 1801 three thousand and eleven baptisms were reported and ten new churches were received into its fellowship, Glens Creek being among the number. The year before that eighty-two and the year following but five hundred and sixteen baptisms were reported.
The church constituted with ten members, whose names were as follows: Jas. Ford, Seth Ramsey and wife, Wm. Green and wife, Joseph Walden and wife, Saml Berry and wife and Jane Samonis. So far as known no descendent of these constituent members is now in the church or the community. The celebrated Wm. Hickman was Moderator at the organization. The other helps were John Scott, from the Forks of Elkhorn, and Richard Cave and Geo. McDaniel, from Clear Creek.
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