05/30/2026
That time Yeakley Chapel was on the Smithsonian Folklife website.
"Yeakley Chapel began its life in the smoldering ashes of the Civil War. Named after a Methodist and Quaker family with ties to Tennessee abolitionism, Yeakley has hosted 4-H meetings of local youth and a 1926 discussion of 'How the Rural Economic Struggle Touches the Church.' Its 1852 cemetery includes both veterans of frontier revivalism and the granddaughter of a Syrian Lebanese immigrant. The oldest church standing on Greene County, Missouri’s stretch of Route 66, its 1887 building sits at the crossroads of American religious life."
From the Smithsonian Folklife Festival Blog
https://festival.si.edu/blog/ozarks-religion?fbclid=IwAR39Q4dugCshy4OzycuXwbK1W77MnSe4Hr2EcekSf5RJxsA9p_WLjtZp14U
