Burgess Miles
In the early days after the War Between the States religion became a source of comfort and peace for a generation which had grown tired of war and destruction. Local Baptist evangelists rapidly spread the Gospel throughout the region. James Lazarus Bryars was an early Baptist missionary who walked from community to community founding churches and preaching at turpentine stills and lumber camps. Among the many churches Bryars helped to found was Sardis Baptist Church in July 1865.
Burgess Miles donated land for the church and originally the church met in a log cabin that was near the Evansville...
