Andrew Chapel

ANDREW CHAPEL

It is not known when this church was built.  In her book on the Boggs Family, Myra Lorene Boggs states:

It is interesting to notice the first place of worship was of trees cut from the woods of Francis Boggs and erected at his expence.  (This Francis Boggs was the son of Joseph Boggs.)  The log structure, built with a gallery for Negroes, stood a little north in the same yard as present-day Andrew Chapel.  It was first called "Boggs Meeting House, later Boggs Chapel, and was under the Methodist Conference but was used as a place of worship by other denominations whenever wanted."  She goes on to State: Eventually the first Andrew Chapel (named for Bishop Andrew) stood on land purchased from Margaret Smith facing on the road leading to the Smith residence and on the south side of the Present Andrew Chapel yard, near the present community building, formerly the school house.  When the first Andrew Chapel was built, the old Boggs Meeting House became part of what was then the school building.  In later years when this school building was done away with, the Boggs Meeting House was bought by Scott Brothers and became part of their storage buildings (3-4).

Source:

Boggs, Myra Lorene.  Let's Trace Our Family Tree.  _____: Boggs, Myra Lorene, 1959.