The only indications I have regarding the history of St. Mary Missionary Baptist Church come from the cemetery, as is often the case with rural churches. The earliest decedent in the cemetery, that I can determine from Findagrave, is Willie T. Thomas, who died in 1854. There would have been no independent Black congregations at that time, but St. Mary may have originated as a brush arbor church on a plantation. There are a couple of other 19th century burials with legible memorials, indicating this was a Freedmen’s church, but those dates are exceptions, and most burials dates to 1940 or later.