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Timber Ridge Baptist Church was organized in 1805 in the Lowry Community with forty members and Isham Fuqua as it's pastor. The first building for the Lowry Meeting House was a one room log cabin on one and one quarter acres of land purchased from William Lowry for five shillings. At a later date possibly during the early 1820’s, the one room log cabin was taken down and the second building erected on the land. The first pastor of this new meeting house was the Reverend William Leftwich .  

This building was later used as the meeting house of the Episcopal Church and still later as a school building. The name, Lowry Meeting House was later changed to "Timber Ridge Baptist Church".  "Timber Ridge" was the name of William B. Lowry's home place. 

Early ministers at Timber Ridge Church were Isham Fuqua, H. L. Moorman, William Leftwich, and William Harris.  Isham's  brother Joseph Fuqua, was the first deacon of Timber Ridge Church  in 1805,  when it was founded.  Joseph Fuqua is the person who gave the land where Bedford City is located, and is buried in the Fuqua Cemetery just off Orange Street. Many names associated with the early church were Fuqua, Wilkerson, Hewitt, Hudnall, Witt, Lowry, Markham, Leslie, Padgett, Coffee, Arthur, and Brown.  Descendants of many of these families are still active today in the church, and you will see many of their pictures on the following pages. 

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