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funeral preached from.  It was:  “If the righteous scarcely be saved, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?”   The place Mt. Zion, the preacher a Baptist, William Lineberry, known better as “Uncle Billie.”  Her requests were all complied with.  God rest them all.  Not one of the family is living.

Mr. Isaiah Collier moved from Goldsboro, with his wife and her sister, his three sons, Billy Tomie and Preston.  They were quite good people; their church faith was Free-Will Baptists; there was no church of that faith and order in our part of the country so they all joined our Sunday School, attended preaching regularly, and were a great help.  The two women were sweet singers, alto and soprano.  Mr. Collier, his wife, sister, and son’s wife, are all sleeping in the church cemetery.  His preacher from Goldsboro came and preached his funeral in Mt. Zion Church.

CHAPTER X

LIST OF PASTORS

Mt. Zion is said to be the first M. E. Church in Chatham County, built not many years after the Revolutionary War.  It was built of logs.  The writer, a small child, remembers seeing old logs which the old people told her were logs of the old church.

It is hard to give a correct record of the pastors in the early days.

When the Pittsboro Circuit had seven or eight churches, just four of the churches had Sunday preaching by the pastor.  That was Haywood, Brown’s Chapel, Pleasant Hill and Mt. Zion.  In 1850, 51 and 52, the first that I can remember Heflin served three years, then came Archer.  Two local preachers in Pittsboro, William Taylor and John Tinnin, would come sometimes and preach and take part in the protracted meetings.  Most all the people seemed to love each other and did not fail to show it, and give a good handshake and tell to others that they were happy and loved God and all the people.

Hefflin was the circuit rider—1850, 1851 and 1852; then came Archer; Peter Doub, was the