In Franklin County precincts that voted for Lincoln in 1860 also contained the majority of churches in the following denominations: Dunker, German Reformed, Manees, Methodist Episcopal, Union, and United Brethren. Some denominations had churches located in both precincts that went for Lincoln and those that went for Breckinridge: Lutherans and Catholics. The lone African church was located in a precinct that went for Lincoln. The geographic locations of churches relative to the precinct's voting pattern in 1860, then, reveal few clues about ethnicity and political expression.
| Denominations | Lincoln | Breckinridge |
| African | 1 | 0 |
| Baptist | 1 | 0 |
| Catholic | 1 | 1 |
| Coventer | 1 | 0 |
| Dunker | 4 | 1 |
| German Episcopal | 0 | 1 |
| German Lutheran | 1 | 0 |
| German Reformed | 8 | 4 |
| Lutheran | 4 | 4 |
| Manees | 5 | 0 |
| Methodist | 1 | 0 |
| Methodist Episcopal | 6 | 2 |
| Methodist Presbyterian | 1 | 0 |
| Presbyterian & Methodist | 1 | 0 |
| Presbyterian | 3 | 1 |
| Seceder | 1 | 0 |
| Union | 7 | 1 |
| Union Bethel | 0 | 1 |
| United Brethren | 7 | 2 |
| Unknown | 5 | 1 |
| White Presbyterian | 1 | 0 |
| Denominations | High Lincoln Precincts | High Breckinridge Precincts | High Douglas Precincts |
| African | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Baptist | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Catholic | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Coventer | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dunker | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| German Episcopal | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| German Lutheran | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| German Reformed | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Lutheran | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Manees | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Methodist | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Methodist Episcopal | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Methodist Presbyterian | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Presbyterian & Methodist | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Presbyterian | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Seceder | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Union | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Union Bethel | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| United Brethren | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Unknown | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| White Presbyterian | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| High Lincoln Precincts | High Breckinridge Precincts | High Douglas Precincts | |
| Denominations | German Reformed (1) | Catholic (1) | Dunker (2) |
| Dunker (1) | German Lutheran (1) | ||
| German Reformed (2) | German Reformed (1) | ||
| Lutheran (1) | Manees (2) | ||
| Methodist Episcopal (2) | Methodist (2) | ||
| United Brethren (2) | Union (3) | ||
| Unknown (1) | United Brethren (2) | ||
| Unknown (1) | |||
Note: Precincts that gave "high" support to a candidate where defined as the 3 districts which gave the highest percentage of support to each candidate. Because this includes only 9 of the 23 voting precincts in Franklin, the church totals do not match those given in the table for the whole county.
