and Confederate flags fly over the cemetery.ĭuring a battle known as “Gilliam’s Stampede,” a cannonball entered the eastern wall of the church near the ceiling, passing through the entire building. The graves are marked with a monument placed by the Disabled American Veterans and the Daughters of Confederate Veterans. There are approximately 82 unknown soldiers buried nearby. There is a lapse of 12 years when no pastor is named.ĭuring the War Between the States, churches all over the South were put to use by troops fighting the war.īethesda was used as a hospital for wounded soldiers by both the Union and Confederate armies and for a short time, for smallpox sufferers during an epidemic. The report if the church clerk gives the names of only four pastors from 1842 to 1863: the Rev. Nathaniel Hood, thought to have been assistant pastor of the Rev. Among those serving the church in a ministerial capacity during this period were: the Rev.
The church records do not show that services were held regularly until 1842. The church building stands in the northwest corner of the cemetery. Located on what is now Highway 11-E, three miles east of the Morristown city limits, the three and three-fourths acres of land for church and cemetery was deeded by Shannon on August 23, 1834, and recorded in the spring of 1835. The church was built in 1835 on land donated by Joseph Shannon.
Bethesda is one of the oldest churches in this section of the state. John McCampbell and members of Hopewell Presbyterian Church near Dandridge. Historic Structure Survives Civil War Violence Now A Living Monument To The Pastīethesda Church, a quaint old building with high-backed pews and an enclosed pulpit, was organized in 1832 by Dr.
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