Smyrna Baptist Church was established in 1801 as a member of the Catawba River Baptist Association.
Minutes of church conferences from Feb. 1809 to Mar. 1901, including male, female, and African American membership lists; treasurer's reports and collections; association letters; the dismissal of church members, May 1854, to form a new church on "temperance principles if constituted at all"; and their use of a building as a school house and a church (1867).
Permission of the church must be obtained to photocopy these records in their entirety.
Processed by Lindsey Rogers on September 14, 2011.
Received from the Rev. Carl Hemphill, Mar. 31, 1958. Microfilmed and returned to the Rev. Robert C. English Jr., pastor, Oct. 27, 1975. Note: The original record book that was given to the collection Mar. 31, 1958 was returned to the church by request Oct. 27, 1975.
Smyrna Baptist Church (Burke County, N.C.) records, CRMF385, Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
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