It is now a hard working church which has 62 members. There is a large Sunday School and a congregation of from 80 to 100. The deacons include Thomas Davies and John Jones, two of the old deacons at Sharon church, Penycae, Monmouthshire, South Wales. A Welsh church has also been formed at Coal Creek where there are many faithful people. The country is healthful both summer and winter, and the commercial opportunities are increasing.
Several railroads come to it and through it already.
S. R. and other writers speak much about there soon being a railroad from Cincinnati, Ohio across the state of Kentucky, through the Cumberland Gap to Knoxville, and from there to the shores of the Atlantic. It seems evident that three adventuresome brothers and patriotic Welshmen, Joseph Richards, Dafydd Richards, and William Richards were the gentlemen who began the Welsh settlement in Knoxville. They with several other generous and religious Welsh, formed a Welsh-speaking church there, and they made an effort to build a beautiful chapel there and to pay for it. They were the patrons of our nation in Danville, Blossburgh, Duncanville, Columbia, and in Lochiel and Harrisburgh, PA., and they continue to support every good cause in Tennessee. They are worthy of respect and honor.