Special Collections & Archives

Filled-in form letter to B.W. Spilman, Field Secretary, Southern Baptist Convention Sunday School Board, with information about an unidentified Sunday School.

Collection consists of two letters from Lane to his sister-in-law, Mrs. J.H. Lane, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, and to his wife in Palatka, Florida discussing his clothing supply, their entrenchments, preaching, the death of Alexander Wilson, wounding of a company man, and a review for Jefferson Davis. The letters are written from Atlanta and Palmetto, GA.

Earl H. Underwood was a Baptist pastor and Director of Missions in the Union Baptist Association from 1951-1959.

East Bend Baptist Church was constituted on December 18, 1847. These records consist of church meeting minutes, membership rolls of men and women with occasional notes of dates of decease, dismission, etc., rules of decorum, church covenant, articles of faith, associational letters to Yadkin Baptist Association, and church boundaries records.

East Fourth Street Baptist Church was constituted on September 28, 1913 as Greenwood Avenue Baptist Church. The church changes its name to East Fourth Street Baptist Church in 1924. This collection contains minutes of church conferences, church records relating to membership and finance, Ladies Aid Society records, Woman's Missionary Society records, Ann Judson Circle records, and Lottie Moon Circle records.

Dutchman's Creek Baptist Church was organized October 5, 1772, with ten constituent members. William Cook was elected pastor. This collection consists of minutes (including typescript copies of vols. 1 and 2) of church conferences from Oct. 5, 1772 to 1924, including membership rolls. Additionally, it contains copies of the Church's records in manuscript and typescript. Other church records consist of assessment lists for the pastor's salary, cemetery inscriptions, church history, and records of the Woman's Missionary Society, 1885-87.

Ebenezer Baptist Church was constituted in 1810. This collection includes a letter to the Catawba River Baptist association from Ebenezer Baptist Church.

Oscar Burnett was Executive Director of the Ecumenical Institute, which was jointly sponsored by Wake Forest University and Belmont Abbey College. This collection consists of biographical information, correspondence, financial documents, literary productions, pictorial materials, and professional files.

Edgar Estes Folk was a Wake Forest College alumnus (1921) and later became a professor of English at WFU. This collection includes typescripts and printed materials.

E.S. Coffey was a native of Watauga County, and an alumnus of Wake Forest College (1890). He later taught school and became an attorney in Boone, North Carolina. This collection contains a Euzelian Literary Society lapel pin, Greek, Latin, Chemistry and Zoology notebooks, and an 1890 Wake Forest College commencement program. One notebook appears to have belonged to brother Thomas Finley Coffey.

Document is apparently an order to Edmond Gamble, Assistant Commissary, August 16, 1779 to take charge of the provisions for the Continental troops.

Edward Andrew Long was a native of Forsyth County, North Carolina, and Baptist preacher. He pastored churches in Stokes County, after he was called to preach by the Summerfield Baptist Church in 1923. His papers consist of miscellaneous writings, sermons, correspondence, and biographical information.

This collection materials include appointment books,subject files,year books, sermons, and some audio reels. The reels are not currently available. Also contains Holt's work as a Baptist Minister and leader of the NC Baptist State Convention. Glen Holt was pastor born on May 21,1932 in Smithfield, NC. He was ordained a minister in 1955, he then spent 30 years as a pastor at the First Baptist Church of Fayetteville. In addition,from 1991-1993 he served as the President of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina.

Correspondence of Dr. Neill Barlett and others, and biographical information on Dr. Edward Harris Kemp, alumnus of Wake Forest College (Class of 1928) and a prominent psychologist.

Johnson was a Baptist pastor and author of poems and hymns. His collection contains biographical information; correspondence and condolences (1910-1969); financial documents (1929-1968); literary productions (1936-1955, undated); photographs; subject files (1906-1969); and recordings. Includes letters of Baptist missionary to Japan, 1911-1921.

E.D. Poe was a Baptist pastor in North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, and Alabama. He was an alumnus of Wake Forest College (Class of 1909). He also attended the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky.

Reverend Elijah Pate Wightman was a Baptist pastor in the Wilmington, North Carolina area and also served as Association Missionary for the Wilmington Baptist Association.

Elizabeth Phillips was a native North Carolinian and worked as an English and Women's Studies professor at as one of the university's first full-time women professors. This collection contains papers, photographs, and memorabilia from both her personal and professional work. The bulk of this collection is her writings, including her research and notes for many of her works. Also included is correspondence, subject files, biographical and early life materials, course materials, and professional materials.

Elizabethtown Baptist Church was constituted on December 10, 1903. This volume contains church administration information, members lists, and meeting minutes for the Elizabethtown Baptist Church.

Elm Grove Bapist Church was constituted on May 2, 1846. This collection includes various church records, including church meeting minutes, activities records and membership rolls, Sunday school records, membership lists, and covenant and rules of decorum.

Emily Wilson is an author and poet that predominantly worked in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She retained a strong friendship with poet A.R. Ammons that lasted for 30 years until Ammons' death in 2001. This collection includes Wilson's correspondence, Ammons' written work, newspaper clippings, publications, research materials, book drafts, and photographs of Ammons' personal life and artwork.

Mr. Teeter, a Baptist minister, farmer, and merchant, was born in Stanly County, North Carolina and served Canton, Locust First, and Philadelphia Baptist churches. He also taught penmanship, served as clerk of the Stanly Baptist Association, 1892-1900, and sold trees and plants.