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Big Pigeon Baptist Church - Cocke County, TN |
| By about 1785 or 1786, there was a group of frontier people who had settled at the French Broad and Big Pigeon rivers, in what is now Cocke County, TN. Some of these settlers were Baptist by conviction. In 1787 these God fearing pioneers formed the Baptist Society on Big Pigeon River (Big Pigeon Baptist Church). A few years later the Abraham Hiestand family (although other spellings of that surname appear in the church minutes) joined that little congregation. According to the German view of Daniel Haston's roots, Daniel Haston was related to that family. The Big Pigeon Baptist Church was established in the home of James English, near the point where English Creek empties into the Pigeon River. The first building of the Big Pigeon Baptist Church, built about 1794, stood on the Edwina Road. These locations are on the east side of Newport, TN in Cocke Co, TN. (Source: Page 6 of Cocke County, Tennessee, and its People, published by the Cocke County Heritage Book Committee & Don Mills, Inc., 1992) This section of the Heritage of Daniel Haston site will be developed later, as time permits, to relate what we know about the Hiestand family's association with this church.
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