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Summerfield, Claiborne Parish, Louisana

Summerfield, situated in the northeastern portion of the parish, is a thriving village of about 120 inhabitants.

It was settled by W. R. Kennedy in 1868, by the erection of a wood and blacksmith shop, and a business house. It now has four stores dealing in general merchandise and plantation supplies, several drug stores, a saw and grist mill, and several mills in the vicinity, all run by steam.

It has four churches (Methodist Episcopal Church South, Methodist Protestant, Missionary Baptist and Primitive Baptist). Hebron Missionary Baptist Church was organized near this village in 1848 by R. A. Hargis and Richard Young. On August 29, 1882, a Baptist society was reorganized here by Elder Burt, the old society at Hebron being also in existence. In 1845 a Methodist society was organized in the Corni Bluff vicinity, which in time merged into the Summerfield society, whither house of worship was erected there. In 1842 the Methodist Protestant denomination organized in the parish, and Presbyterianism was organized in 1851. Summerfield Lodge No. 210, A. F. & A. M., was chartered in 1870, and now bears the number 88. There are twenty-three members reported.

Biographical Sketches| Claiborne Parish

Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, Southern Publishing Company, 1890