On the second Sunday in December I held service in the afternoon in Cherry’s Hall, eight miles from town, and I have since then held service at the same place on the fourth Sunday of each month. The people living in the neighborhood of the Hall are intelligent and prosperous, and they seem to feel great interest in this effort to give them the services of the Church. On the second Sunday in January a Sunday-school was opened by a lady member of the Church with eight or nine pupils, and it now numbers about twenty, four of whom are children of the Church. Much, if not most, of the interest manifested in this little mission is due to the earnest, self-sacrificing spirit of the lady above mentioned, and if her efforts continue to be blest in the future as they have been heretofore, it may not be long before we shall be worshiping in a chapel of our own.

(Source: The Rev. W. J. Smith, Assisting Rector, Calvary Church, Tarboro, Mission Report, 1882 Journal of Convention, p. 172)