The date stone on Carthagenia Baptist Church at the Gist Settlement gives two years: built 1897, rebuilt 1958. Newspapers of the 1940s and ’50s gave the congregation an older start, and they don’t agree with each other.

The back of the Gist Settlement's state historical marker lists thirty-one lots. The last line reads simply “31 – Cemetery.” A county plat from 1894 marks the same small parcel, and on October 24 that ground hosts an evening of the settlement's own stories.