Between this time and the outbreak of the Civil War, a large party emigrated to and near Dancyville from Alamance County, North Carolina, and many of these were of Presbyterian faith. It is quite probable that the existence of the Dancyville church influenced these people who were to play such important parts in later history of Fayette and Haywood Counties, to settle there. The Rev. T.P. Yandell was pastor of the church during the war and financial statements of that period reflect the visissitudes of those trying times and the dark days of Reconstruction which followed. The Rev. J.W. Bryson of Brownsville is supply pastor, J. Shelby Dixon of Dancyville and Dr. Charles Freeland of Whiteville are the present deacons, with Mr. Crawford and Mr. Robert Dixon, both of Dancyville, and Dr. R.S. Russell of Whiteville as elders, the latter of which is a direct decendant of one of the founders of the church. In remodeling, the perfectly preserved orginal building is to be left intact, with brick veneer on the outside and modern paneling for the interior walls.
Plans also call for stained glass windows, a columned porch and new interior decorations throughout.
Mr. Edwards, whose bequest made these changes possible, was christened in this church in 1868 and became a communicant there in 1882. This item was published in a Somerville, Fayette County Tennessee newspaper. The paper name was not included on the article used for the transcription. The only newspaper at the time would have been the Fayette Falcon.