Founding Members of the Church

 

There were twenty-seven charter members, nineteen of whom came out of the First Church. The charter members (one name is missing) and officers of the church were:

1. Mrs. Elizabeth Bush
2. Dr. L. Y. Green, a physician who had ministered to the soldiers during the War, and to all during the Yellow Fever Epidemic, CHARTER ELDER
3. Mrs. Carrie M. Green, his wife;
4. Frank H. Caldwell, one time Mayor of Lookout Mountain, CHARTER ELDER
5. Mrs. M. Ella Caldwell, his wife;
6. Filmore Gibson, who married Dr. Green's daughter, CHARTER DEACON
7. Mrs. Carrie Green Gibson, his wife;
8. W. C. Griffith, a contractor, CHARTER DEACON
9. Miss Agnes Hamilton
10. John A. Hooke, son of Judge Robert Hooke who was a founder of First Presbyterian Church;
11. Mrs. Anna G. Hooke, his wife,
12. Miss Mary P. Hooke, a daughter of Judge Hooke
13. Miss Josephine Hooke, a daughter of Judge Hooke
14. Miss Alice Lillian Hooke, a daughter of Judge Hooke
15. Miss Callie Mayberry
16. Robert Morrison, first Mayor of Lookout Mountain
17. Putnam Morrison, his son, who moved to Vicksburg, Miss.
18. Dr. A. A. Nefe, the family doctor whodelivered most of the babies born on the Mountain, CHARTER ELDER
19. Mrs. Ella Nefe, his wife
20. Miss Agnes Putnam, a school teacher
21. Mrs. Lizzie Robinson
22. Morris Temple, first new Deacon and eventually Elder Emeritus
23. Lewis P, Thatcher, father of Mrs. James Glascock, CHARTER ELDER;
24. Mrs. Edna C. Thatcher, his wife;
25. Frank Whiteside, who moved away years ago CHARTER DEACON
26. Mrs. Lela Whiteside, his wife

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