Special Collections & Archives

Meherrin Baptist Church was organized in 1729. This church has been a member of the Kehukee (1794-1805), Chowan (1806-83); and West Chowan (1883-present) Baptist Associations. This collection contains meeting minutes, photographs, and membership records.

Melville Lewis Jones was a field worker for the Pilot Mountain Baptist Association for Sunday School and Baptist Training Union promotion, 1925-1929, and later for the Mount Zion Baptist Association, 1929-1936. The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, checks, receipts, notebooks, programs, and bulletins.

Memorial Baptist Church in Buies Creek, N.C., was constituted in 1968 as a member of the Little River Baptist Association. This collection contains church records including meeting minutes, member rolls, and other materials from 1869-2017.

Jean Batten Cooper, a Meredith College graduate (1954), created this oral history of Meredith College alumnae in 1988-1989. She generated these materials as a member of WFU's Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program. Materials present include audiocassettes, an interviewee and subject list, a VHS videocassette featuring interviewees, and interview transcripts.

These papers contain birth and death notes on the George W. Meredith family, of New Bern, North Carolina; deeds; the will of Francis T. Meredith, 1860; a handwritten article on Capt. George W. Meredith; a letter, June 4, 1896, from W.H. Meredith to G.W. Meredith concerning the death of their father G.A.R. Meredith; 1900 census data on Margaret Smaw; and photographs of H.H. Meredith, Jr. at ages 36 and 67, and the Meredith and Wright Store, New Bern, North Carolina.

Hubert Kinson (1918-1956) and Imo Jean (Anthony) Middleton were Southern Baptist Convention missionaries to Chile, 1950-1984. Hubert was an alumnus of Wake Forest College (1950), and Imo Jean graduated from Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Their papers contain biographical information, family and professional correspondence, diaries (1935-1936), notebooks and scrapbooks, writings, photographs, and educational materials from Appalachian State University, Southeastern Seminary, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest College, and the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina. Materials focus on the pair's missionary work in the Baptist Mission, Santiago, Chile, and to other Baptist-related work in Chile.

Mildred Francis Thomas was a Southern Baptist Special Projects Missionary serving in Baptist schools and seminaries in Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand.

Mill Creek Baptist Church was founded in 1762 in Bolivia, N.C. (Brunswick County). The church is a member of the Brunswick Baptist Association. This collection contains minutes of church conferences from April 25, 1818 to September 10, 1848, minutes for 1879, and a church covenant dated 1881. This volume includes membership rolls with an occasional death date recorded thereon. On November 13, 1838, members were dismissed to form Mount Pisgah.

The Mill Creek Baptist Church was founded in 1835 in Person County, North Carolina. It was a member of the Beulah Baptist association and the Mill Creek (1835)/Flat River Baptist Association. The contents of this record include minutes from church conferences dating from July 21, 1835 to October 1913 and from May 1922 to April 1932. These include membership rolls, treasurers' records circa 1918-1925, and a folder of miscellaneous church records from 1886-1904 that are undated.

Mineral Springs Baptist Church was constituted in 1835. Items in this collection include meeting minutes, church proceedings, and membership lists.

M.L. Foster, Davie County, North Carolina, attended Wake Forest College, 1885-87. He taught school in Davie County, 1887-91, and then enrolled in Law School at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Mocksville First Baptist Church was constituted April 3, 1864. This church has been a member of the Yadkin (1864-73) and South Yadkin (1873- present) Baptist associations. This collection consists of minutes of church conferences, membership records, and miscellaneous items.

Moon's Chapel Baptist Church was constituted in 1849. Included in this collection are minute books, membership lists, financial records, church records, and transcripts.

This collection is a copy of a contract, dated November 21, 1936, executed by and between J.F. Baity, Motsinger family members and guardians, and Reynolda, Incorporated, and a receipt for the contract and other materials, February 16, 1937, concerning the acquisition of land that later became a part of Wake Forest University's Reynolda campus.

Mount Carmel Baptist Church was organized on April 24, 1821 as Smith's Baptist Church. The church changed its name to Mount Carmel in 1848. This church has been a member of the Chowan (1823-1883) and the West Chowan (1883-present) Baptist associations. This volume contains Sunday school statistics (1886-1890) [broken series], Sunday school rolls, Sunday school meeting minutes (1889, undated), and financial records (1886, 1887). They are handwritten in a hardcover notebook, which has stained yellowed pages. Some pages are ripped off or torn.

Mount Elam Baptist Church was founded in 1870 in Roseboro, N.C. (Sampson County). This church is a member of the New South River Baptist Association. These documents include the organization of the church (1870), rules of decorum, and church covenant. They are photocopies on loose-leaf paper.