History Of Missouri Baptists
Published by the Executive Board of the Missouri Baptist General Association
R.S. Douglass
1934

Ozark Association
Pg. 291

This body was organized in October, 1870, by Mt. Pleasant, Mt. Moriah, Shiloh, Shady Grove, Bethany, Union, and Clark’s Creek Churches in Wright and Douglas Counties. These churches had formerly belonged to Zion Association and withdrew from that body because of its anti-mission views. The men active in its organization were William Carter, C. L. Alexander, Joseph Miller, H. Elliot, H. Brazeal, and W. S. Dennis. It was from the first active in mission and Sunday School work. In 1891 Ozark Association reported 19 churches, 20 ordained ministers, 83 baptisms, and a total membership of 588. In 1894 the name of the Ozark Association was changed to Wright County Association and its further history is given under that name.

Wright County Association
pg. 370

At the meeting of the Ozark Association, in 1894, the name of the organization was changed to Wright County Association, and it continued as an outgrowth of Ozark Association. Its sixty-fourth annual session was held in 1933 at which time the association was composed of 23 churched having a total membership of 2,215, with 80 baptisms during the year. At this meeting I. E. Taylor presided as moderator and Joe Lee Dennis was clerk. Among the pastors in the association at this time, in addition to the moderator, were: Walter Gos, Alva Morris, E. H. Rhoades, C.A. Wright, J. L. Leonard, Jordan R. Bogart, C. H. Ormsbee, T. B. Rirzinger, W. H. Clark, Arthur D. Kelley, C. N. Means, and G. Chadwell.

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