Elizabethtown Baptist Church (Elizabethtown, N.C.) Records

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        <titleproper>Elizabethtown Baptist Church (Elizabethtown, N.C.) Records <num>MS747</num></titleproper>
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          <date>2017 April</date>
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          <addressline>PO Box 7777</addressline>
          <addressline>Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27109</addressline>
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      <abstract id="aspace_650f015abc7ef3c475a6cbcf0dd4f976">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.</abstract>
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      <head>Historical Note</head>
      <p>On December 10th, 1903, a presbytery consisting of Rev. D. J. Clark, Rev. J. H. Hildreth, and Bro. Chastin Martin by special invitation assembled at the court house in Elizabethtown, N. C., for the purpose of organizing a missionary Baptist Church. There were sixteen charter members. Rev. J. H. Hildreth was the first pastor of the church.</p>
      <p>Association Membership: Bladen (1904-)</p>
      <p>Pastors: J. H. Hildreth 1903-1905; O. P. Meeks 1905-1911; T. J. Baker 1911; Oscar Johnson 1911-1912; J. M. Fleming 1912-1916; J. E. Dupree 1916-1918; B. F. Rollins 1918- ; E. M. Books 1919-1921; C. M. Whitlock 1923- 1924; W. O. Biggs 1924-1929; Lee Pridgen 1929-1931; L. R. Ennis 1931-1933; C. R. Hinton 1933-1937; E. H. Canady 1937-1945; A. D. Frazier 1945-1954; Dean L. Minton 1954- 1958; E. R. Boyd 1958-1960; Jerry M. Wallace 1960-1967</p>
      <p>Histories: NCCF: Hester, R. J., "Brief History of the Elizabethtown Baptist Church". Bladen Journal (Elizabethtown, N. C.), circa 1931.</p>
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      <p>This volume contains church administration information, members lists, and meeting minutes for the Elizabethtown Baptist Church (1903). The handwritten (pencil and ink) sheets number 105 pages, with two additional loose pages with similar information.</p>
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      <head>Preferred Citation</head>
      <p>Elizabethtown (Elizabethtown, N.C.) Baptist Church Records (MS747), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.</p>
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      <head>Related Materials</head>
      <p>Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives also holds a related microfilm collection, Elizabethtown Baptist Church (Elizabethtown, N.C.) Records (CRMF17).</p>
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      <p>Digitized materials from this collection are available in <a href="https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/63998/browse?value=Elizabethtown+Baptist+Church+%28Elizabethtown%2C+N.C.%29+Records+%28MS747%29&amp;type=relationcollection">Z. Smith Reynolds Library Digital Collections</a>.</p>
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      <p>Collection described by Kathleen Darling, 2014. Formerly identified as CR12.</p>
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      <subject source="lcsh">Church records and registers -- North Carolina -- Elizabethtown</subject>
      <subject source="lcsh">Church records and registers -- North Carolina -- Bladen County</subject>
      <geogname source="lcsh">Bladen County (N.C.) -- Church history -- Sources</geogname>
      <subject source="lcsh">Baptists -- North Carolina -- Bladen County -- History -- Sources</subject>
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