Bethel Baptist Church was organized in 1840. It is located on the Holley's Ferry Road about 6½ miles south of Prosperity. A cemetery is attached. Bethel Baptist Church was organized September 29th, 1840 by Revs. Daniel Mangum and Thomas Frean. This church is on the Holley Ferry Road (now Bethel Church Road), six and a half miles south of the town of Prosperity, in Newberry County. It was supplied with preaching by the Rev. D. Mangum and other ministers, as missionaries, irregularly, until about the year 1852. At that time Revs. A. W. Asbill and A. P. Norris held a protracted meeting and received several members, when the church called Rev. A. W. Asbill as pastor, the duties of which office he faithfully discharged until the year 1867, sixteen years in succession. Since 1867 the church has been supplied by the following named ministers as pastors: Revs. John Barry, W. T. Farrow, N. N. Burton, J. M. Norris, L. O’Neall, M. D. Padgett, W. B. Elkins, R.W. Seymour, Joab Edwards, N. B. Williams, J. D. Huggins, and H. T. Smith. Many other preachers have served this church, from time to time, but not as pastors. This church has set apart four of her members to exercise their gifts in the ministry. This church has elected only three clerks, viz., Mark Waites, who served to 1848, D. R. King, to 1874, and A. J. Long, who is now clerk, August 1892. This article was from c1892. I have no idea what publication. I found it in some of my grandfather’s things when he died...submitted by Dean Long