Community Christian Church

Presbyterian minister Barton W. Stone was born in Port Tobacco, Maryland, December 24, 1772. He died in Hannibal Missouri, November 9, 1844. Stone was educated as a school teacher and entered the ministry through the Presbyterian Church. He served a church in Cane Ridge Kentucky, and after hosting the historic Cane Ridge Revival of 1801, see pages on the Cane Ridge Meeting House and Shrine) he and some others formed the Springfield Presbytery denouncing all human creeds and appealing to the Bible as the only rule of faith and practice.