always a Sanderson name on the church roll. In 1820–21, the Rev. Hartwell Brown was stationed on the Flint Circuit. Several of his daughters married local men and some of his descendants have been on the church roll continually to the present time. Ford's Chapel went into the Tennessee Conference in 1812. In 1870, the North Alabama Conference was established and Ford's Chapel left the Tennessee Conference and became a member of the North Alabama Conference. At different times, the North Alabama Conference placed Ford's Chapel on the Meridianville, the Madison, and the Toney Circuits. Today we are the Ford's Chapel Church. In 1870, the original building was deteriorating. The members razed the old building. However, when they reached the floor joists they stopped - for here they found fourteen-inch hand-hewn Oak timbers. This building is resting on the joists of the first building. The new building was a white clapboard church and under the very ancient and stately Oaks, looked beautiful. During some of the latter years of the 19th Century, this building was used as both a church and a school. Throughout the years at revival time, the Church and its grounds frequently have been filled. Three ministers went into the Methodist Ministry as members of Ford's Chapel: William H. Pettus, Carl Stovall, and Darby Mason. Robert Paine was stationed here, 1819–1820, and later became President of Lagrange College and finally for sixteen years was a bishop of the various conferences. Ford's Chapel had two other members who preached here their first year who have served the North Alabama Conference - E. Hobson Clarke in Education and Thelmer Vaughn in Finances. In fact, being a poor, small country church we received many young ministers - and we helped train them in the way they should go. Most of the time they were students from Athens College. Athens College was, at that time, a Methodist School and was less than twenty miles away. 1900–present In 1918 a choir bay was built where the Sunday school rooms in the front of the Church are now. At that time the back of the church was what is now the front. From 1963–1976 many structural changes took place at Ford's Chapel. The seating arrangement was reversed (making the front of the church as it appears today), the old choir bay was torn down and Sunday School rooms were added in the front,