In Hall Township, facing the rising sun, bounded on the Southwest by a pasture and on the Northeast by a woodland, stands one of the most interesting examples of the pioneer Log Churches now in Dubois County. It is not old, having been built as late as 1874, yet there is something about its very make up that is food for thought, and a splendid subject for meditation. The lessons taught by the past are here brought out to the eye in a manner that impresses them upon our memories, never to be forgotten. It was built at a time when the citizens of Dubois County were beginning to recover from the loss by death and the burden of debt, caused by the Civil War and, at a time when there was a general revival of religious work through Dubois County. The fact that this log building, with but four windows and a door, was built as late as 1874, in this county, is proof that the people of that community waited not on the manner of doing, but did. Their religious impulse was strong, and they cared not for the modern structures of architectural beauty. The floor was made of puncheons. The altar or pulpit was a single upright piece with a short board nailed horizontally across it upper end. This held the Holy Bible. The seats were made of small sized poplar trees split into halves, and held at the proper height by four sticks driven into the auger holes made for their reception. The house was covered with clapboards. It had no ceiling. All these things are here today. The door is open as if inviting the faithful to return to the days of yore. The birds, after their day of song on the wing, or in the surrounding forest, return to the building at night and safely rest upon the timbers under the roof. These timbers are poplar saplings, and not the sawed timbers of today.

Occassionally a slow, solemn procession winds it weary way along the creek, and across the pasture field. It is the concourse of mourning friends bringing the remains of some member of the congregation to its last resting place. The Baily graveyard was started in 1863, Esquire Wm. H. H. Pinnick, burying the first child there in that year. The record creating the congregation reads as follows -

The Elders were William H. H. Pinnick and John Kesterson: the deacons were Samuel Baily and Dyar D Burton. In addition to the above the following family names appear on the record. Sanders, Parsons, McIver, Curtis, Gullett, Andre, Taber, Nicholson, Williams, Conrad, Hembrey, Chanley, Frentres, Wineinger, Goodman, Campbell, Blue, Zehr, and Johnes. It appears that the Rev. Benjamin T Goodman, who died at Huntingburg December 1873, was the spiritual director at the organization. Later Rev. Thomas A Cox and Rev. Benjamin F Nicholson served as ministers.

This log building stands on a hillside, about 3/4 of a mile west of the Bender school house. Nearly all the members of the old congregation have passed away, gone to other churches, moved to other fields of usefulness or scattered to the four winds of heaven.

WILSONS History of Dubois Co Indiana Written 1910
Contributed by Christine Walters