Billory Baptist Church History

Billory Baptist Church was founded in 1891 by Rev. J.E. Holley.  The carpenter for the original building was a man by the name of Bill Lowery.  As the story goes, lumber yards would send invoices to him, along with the wood, to be signed.  When Bill would sign the invoices, his signature looked more like Billory and for the longest time, people thought that was his name.  From there, people thought the church was named for him and so was born the name, "Billory Baptist Church."

Things Billory Baptist Church has seen in history:

The establishment of Holley

Electricity and Indoor plumbing in homes

Women's Suffragette Movement giving them the right to vote.

Prohibition

World War I & II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf War

The Great Depression

The Civil Rights Movement

Landing a Man on the Moon

The turning of 2 different Centuries

The birth of the internet