Special Collections & Archives

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <ead xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9 http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"> <eadheader countryencoding="iso3166-1" dateencoding="iso8601" findaidstatus="completed" langencoding="iso639-2b" repositoryencoding="iso15511"> <eadid url="http://hdl.handle.net/10339/93695">ms748</eadid> <filedesc> <titlestmt> <titleproper>Elm Grove Baptist Church (Guilford County, N.C.) Records <num>MS748</num></titleproper> <author>John Hagerty and Stephanie Bennett</author> </titlestmt> <publicationstmt> <publisher>Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives</publisher> <p> <date>April 2017</date> </p> <address> <addressline>PO Box 7777</addressline> <addressline>Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27109</addressline> <addressline>URL: <extptr xlink:href="http://zsr.wfu.edu/special/" xlink:show="new" xlink:title="http://zsr.wfu.edu/special/" xlink:type="simple"/></addressline> </address> </publicationstmt> </filedesc> <profiledesc> <creation>This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on <date>2021-05-21 14:19:40 -0400</date>.</creation> <descrules>Describing Archives: A Content Standard</descrules> </profiledesc> <revisiondesc> <change> <date>2018 November</date> <item>Revised by Katie Lawrence and Finley Turner</item> </change> </revisiondesc> </eadheader> <archdesc level="recordgrp"> <did> <repository> <corpname>Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives</corpname> </repository> <unittitle>Elm Grove Baptist Church (Guilford County, N.C.) Records</unittitle> <unitid>MS748</unitid> <physdesc altrender="whole"> <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1.5 Linear Feet</extent> <extent altrender="carrier">1 oversize box</extent> </physdesc> <unitdate normal="1846/1881" type="inclusive">1846-1881</unitdate> <abstract id="aspace_1b9e8391a942019b5803583f173d6730">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.</abstract> <langmaterial><language langcode="eng">English</language> . </langmaterial> </did> <bioghist id="aspace_5acd010935b42607ccf56110ec9f6daa"> <head>Historical Note</head> <p>Elm Grove Baptist Church was organized as an arm of the Madison Baptist Church in the Flat Rock District schoolhouse in Guilford County, North Carolina on May 21, 1846. It was constituted as a separate church by a presbytery from the Beaulah Baptist Association on February 14, 1849 with fifteen charter members. Elias Dodson was elected pastor.</p> <p>Association membership: Beulah 1849-circa 1892</p> <p>Pastors: Elias Dodson 1849; John Robertson 1849-1851; Robert Gourley 1851-1857; W. N. Hereford 1857-1858; L. H. Shuck 1858; John Robertson 1858-1861; W. N. Hereford 1861-1862; A. H. Barnes 1862-1863; Pinkey Oliver 1863-1865; Robert Gourley 1866; Jesse Wheeler 1871; Robert Gourley 1875-1878; James T. Vernon 1878-circa 1881</p> </bioghist> <scopecontent id="aspace_29fe4e8c71dba2f104c33f7c19dc662d"> <head>Collection Overview</head> <p>This volume contains church meeting minutes, activities records and membership rolls (1846-1864), a Sunday school record listing male and female names (1873), membership lists (undated, 1879), covenant and rules of decorum (undated), and church meeting minutes (1867-1881).</p> </scopecontent> <prefercite id="aspace_5004d86778784195194d91b538b9f2db"> <head>Preferred Citation</head> <p>Elm Grove Baptist Church (Guilford County, N.C.) Records, (MS748), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.</p> </prefercite> <accessrestrict id="aspace_8b676b1a8c173fa1148ac95ac791b6cc"> <head>Access Restrictions</head> <p>This collection is open for use.</p> </accessrestrict> <userestrict id="aspace_e6394ade9549707278cd234cda203a80"> <head>Copyright Notice</head> <p>The nature of the WFU Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The Archives and Special Collections of ZSR Library claims only physical ownership of most materials. The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to the U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.</p> </userestrict> <relatedmaterial id="aspace_366c239555b60326575546b8a9eb0a01"> <head>Related Materials</head> <p>Digitized materials from this collection are available in <a href="https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/63998/browse?value=Elm+Grove+Baptist+Church+%28Guilford+County%2C+N.C.%29+Records+%28MS748%29&amp;type=relationcollection">Z. Smith Reynolds Library Digital Collections</a>.</p> </relatedmaterial> <processinfo id="aspace_97121ab45c26636caaea1958ee889780"> <head>Processing Information</head> <p>Collection described by Kathleen Darling, 2014. Formerly identified as CR13.</p> </processinfo> <dsc> <c id="aspace_ref2_uj9" level="file"> <did> <unittitle> <extref xlink:href="https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/64738" xlink:show="new" xlink:actuate="onrequest">Minute book, volume 1</extref> </unittitle> <unitdate normal="1846/1864" type="inclusive">1846-1864</unitdate> <abstract id="aspace_8f3790e3206d6ffcb103122fd9d0d882">Minutes of church conferences from May 21, 1846 to August 1864, including a list of charter members; male and female membership rolls for 1849, 1850, 1853, and 1863; and a list of contributors for a stover. 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