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1837 Primitive and Missionary split described here.

Pintlala, Alabama churches in which Gary Burton writes in the Baptist Studies Bulletin out of Mercer University:

  "Hacking my way through underbrush in the Bethel Cemetery, now owned and restored by the Pintlala Baptist Church, I came upon a flat, rectangular marker that had been totally obscured by mean-spirited vegetation. To my surprise, the marker provided information about a church split: the 1837 regional division between Primitive and Missionary branches of the Baptist family.

  "Finding the marker nudged me into researching the origins and the conflicts of those early Baptist churches. I discovered that the Bethel Baptist Church, no longer in existence, was one of four founding churches in the Alabama Baptist Association (1818-19), and I soon learned that the Bethel marker and three others had been installed in 1923 by the Montgomery Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union. The other church sites included Antioch, Old Elam, and Rehobeth. The installations commemorated the centennial anniversary of the Alabama Baptist Convention.

  "I was now galvanized by a mission to locate the other three markers. Two were found quickly, but the Rehobeth marker required four years of searching in the kudzu of Elmore County. One afternoon I received an unexpected phone call from a friend who knew of my quest. He took his time in leading up to his announcement, and then said, “Gary, I have found the Rehobeth Stone!” His words catapulted me out of my chair with the same euphoria Indiana Jones had when recovering the lost ark. My friend had found the Rehobeth Stone, turned upside down, on an old plantation twelve miles from the original church site."