Because Enon is such a small, rural farming community, the history of the area has been virtually impossible to find. But we do know that some of the first settlers were James Larkin Mathis, William M. Lowery, John Jay Grimsley, William Keevan, Wilburn Bray, John Brunson, Mary Ann Mathis Holland, Mary Ann Mathis Hollond (widow), Pleasant Williams, and A. D. Beck. The current land used for Enon Baptist Cemetery, which is probably Enon's oldest cemetery was donated by one of the earlier settlers A.D. Beck.
William W. Lowery and Mary Florence Beck were married in the Perdido area of Escambia County, Florida in 1871. They migrated to Shelby County, Texas and began their family. Mary Beck's brother, Jesse also migrated to Shelby County, Texas. William and Mary returned to Florida and started their Homestead requirements in the Enon area in Dec. of 1880. In Enon they had a 160-acre homestead with a log dwelling, outhouse, smoke house, crib, stables, and fencing. William was primarily a timberman. This property was then sold to James Mathis and family in August of 1891.
The Enon Community has no authentic record as to when the community was settled. It is calculated, however, that the year was somewhere around 1885. People originally came to the Enon area in a quest of better livelihood and to procure government lands.
In the latter part of 1885, the Moscogee Lumber Company, Moscogee, Florida, gave the Escambia County School Board one acre of land on which to construct a school house.
The Enon Community was blessed with an abundance of long-leaf-yellow pines. Logging was the primary was of living. Although no one knows the exact day the Enon church was established, by examining the many tombstones, one can come to the conclusion it was between Feb. 6 and Oct. 15, 1888. First, William Keevan's son, Edward Keevan, was killed Feb. 6, 1888 by a tree branch falling on him, while his father was clearing the land. At the time of death, owing to no cemetery, in Enon, the Keevan child's body was carried across the Perdido River in to Baldwin County, Alabama for burial. When a cemetery was constructed in Enon, the body of the child was returned to Enon for reburial. Then, son of one of the settlers, John W. Grimsley, died on Oct. 15, 1888 and the body was immediately buried in the Enon Community. So based on these two deaths, it is obvious that the church was built sometimes between these two deaths and burials.
James Larkin Mathis, one of the settlers, ran a general store in Enon, which is situated some 40 miles northwest of Pensacola, Florida. All food and other supplies were procured in Pensacola and transported by horse and wagon.