Pleasant Ridge Church

The Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church was organized on May 10, 1873 in Sampsel Township, Livingston County, Missouri. The original members were Abraham Gann, Jane Gann, Agnes Boucher, Thomas Boucher, Sarah L. Clark, Edward Gibbons, Sarah Ewen, Jane Hughes, Martha Breeze, Isabella Hughes, John Hughes, Elizabeth Yates, A. J. Boucher, Elizabeth Boucher, John Boucher, Sarah Boucher and others. A frame church building was erected in 1877, which cost $900. The present membership is 38. The present number of Sabbath-school scholars is 50. Thomas Boucher is Superintendent of the school. The church building stands on the northeast quarter of Section 21. -- Source: History of Caldwell and Livingston Counties, Missouri (1886).