Church Co-Founded By John Backus

From the Livingston County News: South Livonia’s ‘Little White Church’ to celebrate bicentennial (published 2016):

"It is often quoted, “When God is in it – it works.” Surely then, God was in it when a small group of people gathered at the home of *Timothy Baker in 1816. That group of people included a man named John Backus and together they formed a church called the South Livonia Baptist Society. In 1833 the congregation built a church that still stands in the same location today. Two hundred years from the first gathering in 1816 the church, now called South Livonia United Church of Christ, is preparing to celebrate its anniversary. One of the church’s currently active members, **Eleanor Wood Trescott, will be there. She is the great-great-great niece of John Backus."

*Timothy Baker was John Backus's uncle (John's mother, Jerusha Baker Backus, was Timothy Baker's sister)

**Descendant of Ebenezer Backus; John Backus's brother