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From: "Linda Crawford" <>
Subject: Pleasant Ridge Missionary Baptist
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:41:22 -0500
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In reply to Mike Flannigan's answer to my query about Pleasant Ridge Missionary Baptist Church--yes, there was a church east
of Urbana. I found it in an old church history book. Some of the names mentioned are kin to me and the other names I recognize as living in that area. There are family cemeteries with two of those names in that area and that is another reason I know the church was located there.
There is a Pleasant Ridge Free Will Baptist Church west of Urbana just over in Hickory County. We have relatives buried there and they do still have services there.
No Grease was more an area than a town and the description of where the church was located fits the description of where No Grease was located. I understand there was a church at No Grease at one time.
Also, there is a Pleasant Ridge Missionary Baptist Church in western Polk County. It is a very popular name throughout MO for rural churches.
Linda Fowler Crawford

It sounds like you know what you are talking about, but
it's quite a coincidence that there is a Pleasant Ridge Church
and Cemetery 2.6 miles WEST of Urbana. That is in
Hickory county. Here is a map of that area:
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=37.83278&lon=-93.21361&datum=NAD27&s=50&size=l

Do you still think there was another one east of Urbana?


Sure is interesting about "No Grease". I hadn't heard of
that before.


Mike Flannigan



> Subject: Pleasant Ridge Missionary Baptist
> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:38:54 -0600
> From: "Linda Crawford" <>
> To:
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> Does anyone on the list have any knowledge of Pleasant Ridge Missionary Baptist Church that was located three miles east of Urbana and five miles north and east of Louisburg? The church was organized in 1889 as Union and in 1894 a new building was erected and the name was changed to Pleasant Ridge. Members who helped organize the church were: Wm. Quisenberry, Wm. J. Bartlett, Wm. Boles, J.R. Harmon, Clarence Hyde, Minerva Quisenberry, Melvina Quisenberry, Sarah Boles, Nacy Boles, Estella Boles, Mary M. Harmon and Tennessee Bartlett. This information came from the "History of Polk County Missionary Baptist Association" in 1897. A number of other Dallas County churches were in the Polk County Association. The church seems to be in the area of Harmon Cemetery and Bartlett Cemetery on Highway U and the Hyde School which is west of the two cemeteries and near Howard Chapel Church and Cemetery. I believe at one time there was a church at No Grease or in that area. Could th!
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> be the same church? No Grease was located on or near Highway U close to Bartlett Cemetery . Linda Fowler Crawford



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