?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>    ms747    Elizabethtown Baptist Church (Elizabethtown, N.C.) Records  MS747   John Hagerty and Stephanie Bennett    Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives 
 2017 April 
 PO Box 7777  Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27109  URL:       This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on  2021-05-21 14:15:51 -0400 .  Describing Archives: A Content Standard     2018 November, 2020  Revised by Katie Lawrence, Olivia Field           Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives     Elizabethtown Baptist Church (Elizabethtown, N.C.) Records   MS747     1.5 Linear Feet   1 oversize box      1903-1926   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.     English  .       Historical Note
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.
Association Membership: Bladen (1904-)
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
Histories: NCCF: Hester, R. J., "Brief History of the Elizabethtown Baptist Church". Bladen Journal (Elizabethtown, N. C.), circa 1931.
  Collection Overview
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.
  Preferred Citation
Elizabethtown (Elizabethtown, N.C.) Baptist Church Records (MS747), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
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Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives also holds a related microfilm collection, Elizabethtown Baptist Church (Elizabethtown, N.C.) Records (CRMF17).
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  Processing Information
Collection described by Kathleen Darling, 2014. Formerly identified as CR12.
   Church records and registers -- North Carolina -- Elizabethtown   Church records and registers -- North Carolina -- Bladen County   Bladen County (N.C.) -- Church history -- Sources   Baptists -- North Carolina -- Bladen County -- History -- Sources         Minute book   1903-1926  Arcticles of Faith/Dates; Church Covenant/Rules/Dates; Membership rolls or lists (alphabetical, male, female, negro, ect.) Original members, list of members, male and female (1915)  1  1