Minutes of the Congregation of the Union Baptist Church, partial xerographic copy in Colorado County Archives Collection (Ms. 10), Archives of the Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus; Colorado County Bond and Mortgage Records, Book E, pp. 785, 786; Colorado County Deed Records, Book M, p. 2, Book O, p. 1. The trustees of the Columbus Methodist Episcopal church were Benjamin Franklin Williams, Edmund Eason, Willis Hunter, Colin Mays, and William Norman; those in Alleyton were Romeo Hill, Robert Holters, Robert Matthews, Samuel Wells, and Samuel Burney. The lot the Methodist Episcopal congregation purchased was subdivided lot 8 in block 62; that that the Columbus African Methodist Episcopal congregation purchased was subdivided lot number 7 in block 48.