This is an editorial source summary, not a facsimile or a complete transcription. Jackie Jones shared photographs of printed pages 15–21, credited to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ayers. The containing publication’s title and date have not yet been identified.
The account gives August 28, 1830, eleven charter members, and the eighth district of Carroll County. It says the first twenty-one years of records were lost, with records beginning in October 1851 fairly complete except for short periods. It describes enslaved members before the Civil War and the formation of Mount Sinai afterward.
For 1867, it describes a member sent to Nashville for forty sacks of corn available from a Christian society. The next two monthly meetings discussed twelve sacks; the explanation given was freight payment. It identifies October 21, 1961, as Olin King’s start as pastor and describes roads almost too rough to travel.
The pastor’s appeal continues: “to have roads!” Commissioner Lee Worthy cooperated in grading and widening roads. Forty-two people immediately enrolled in Sunday school. The history also describes prayer meetings, a Scout troop, building improvements, and cemetery work.
The survey notes unknown graves, replacement markers and broken or unreadable stones. Its closing note states that this is a corrected copy, first recorded in 1968 and recorded again in November 1975, courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Ayers. Page 17 lists Isabella Bain as born May 5, 1849, and deceased September 9, 1864, matching Daniel’s photograph. The prose history’s different birth year should not override the legible stone and survey.
The article treats the history as an attributed later account. It does not claim that the original minutes have been inspected or that every statement has independent confirmation.