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In The Beginning - 1880 In 1880 the people of the aspiring community located five miles north of Henderson on Glebe Road (present day Satterwhite Point Rd) felt the need for some instructive teaching of the Bible for their children and a worship service for themselves. Silver Spring School, located across from what was known as "Cooper's Grove" was selected to serve as as the meeting place because it was conveniently located and easily accessible. Ministers and laymen of nearby communities were invited to conduct the services. Good attendance and growing interest soon proved the need for a larger meeting place. Ten years after the first service, in 1890 Flat Rock Protestant Church was organized with the charter members listed below. In May 1890, the Thomas D. Hester family deeded to the trustees, land at the fork of Harris Mill Road and Glyon Road (present day Mabry Mill Road and Satterwhite Point Road). There is a wide, flat rock believed to be a vein from the rock of Greystone Quarry that runs beneath the ground in a very large area where the church is built; therefore, and appropriately so, the members chose Flat Rock Methodist Protestant Church as its name.
Thomas D. Hester and wife Ann Eliza Moss (Granddaughter of Turner Moss and Sarah Jane Reavis, a daughter of Samuel and Nancy Jones Reavis) Note: Sallie Hester Pleasants's husband, Cicero H. Pleasants had died in 1889. Their daughter was Annie, who married Claude Alexander Wortham. They were faithful members of Flat Rock their entire lives. Most of these charter members are buried in the Church Cemetery.
Genealogy of Various Church Families The following site, "Reavis Family of Vance County," contains data pertaining to many of the church families. They include: Reavis, Hester, Harris, Moss, Wortham, Satterwhite, Vaughan, Mabry, Parham, Pegram, Paschall, Brame, Wiggins, and Wyche.
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