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Rev.
Joe Price organized the first Methodist church in Langford cove around
1875. At the organizational meeting were: Mr. and Mrs. G.T. winters,
Mr. and Mrs Edington, and Miss Elam. The meeting was held under a live
oak tree in front of the Morris Brown house near Langford Gap (later
Gholson Gap). The members continued to meet under the trees and in
their homes until they made arrangements to share a small school house
in the Evant community. The Methodists built their own building in
1905. In 1950 they built a brick building, which they use today (at the
time that this article was written).
The
Sardis Primitive Baptist Church was constructed June 10, 1876 in the
home of S.M. Murphree, about 1 mile north of the present town of Evant.
The charter members were; W.M. West, M.W. Dumas, R. Burks, S.M.
Murphree, F.B. Brown, A. Burks, Elizabeth West, Nancy Dumas, R.N.
Jeffries, B.E. Lee, W.F. Chambers, J.B. Dumas, J.c. Caudel, Jasper
Chambers, Phebe Murphree, Susan Brown, Polly Ann Dumas, Rebecca Lee,
Rebecca Jeffrey, Margaret H. Lee, and Elizabeth Dumas. This church is
now located in Hamilton. Under the leadership of N.T. Byars, the Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church was organized April 12, 1877, in the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Griggs, about 6 miles North East of the present town of Evant. Besides Mr. Byars and Mr. and Mrs. Griggs, the adults were Mr. and Mrs. D.W. White, and Mr. and Mrs. Donahue. In 1885 a new frame building was erected in the town of Evant; it was paid for by subscription and was dedicated the second Sunday in May, 1892. The name of the church was changed to Evant Baptist Church in 1913. In 1955, a brick building was built.
The
first known meetings of the Church of Christ were in the old Cow House
School building North East of present day Evant, and in the old
one-room school building at Henderson Point. When the Henderson Point
building was torn down, some of these families started meeting in the
school auditorium. Some of the early members were: the Hills, Burneys,
Elams, Gazaways, Epplers, Christians, Miss Ollie Preston, the Scotts,
Newtons, Shaws, Singletons, Baizes, Carters, Faubions, and Flats. A
frame building was erected in 1928, three blocks west of the square in
1965, it was replaced with a new brick building. 
The
Bee House Masonic Lodge No. 550, now in Evant, was chartered December
28, 1882. The Evant Masonic Lodge No. 742 was chartered in 1892; after
a fire in 1913, the Evant Lodge demised. In 1931 the Bee House Lodge,
which had met at Pearl since 1914, moved to Evant. The Lodge
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