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Contains 7 Results:

Minute Book 1, 1803-1841

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents

One volume containing one membership list, minutes, the Constitution and Church Covenant, the Rules of Decorum, and the Constitution Terms of Union created in 1832.

Dates: 1803-1841

Minute Book 1 Typescript, 1803-1841

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Old Cane Spring Baptist Church Records include four volumes of church records covering the years 1803 to 1992. The volume covering the years 1873 - 1896 is missing. The records include membership lists, monthly minutes and news clippings. The membership lists indicate that a member was deceased, dismissed or excluded and when and how they were accepted into the church. The minutes include changes in pastor, repairs to the building and conflicts between members and the church. The pulpit...
Dates: 1803-1841

Minute Book 2, 1830-1873

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: 3
Scope and Contents

One volume containing Rules of Decorum, membership lists, and church minutes.

Dates: 1830-1873

Minute Book 4, 1896-1959

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: 4
Scope and Contents

One volume containing membership lists, minutes and Rules of Decorum. August 24 and 25, 1903 was the centennial meeting of the church and there is a brief history of pastors on that date. In the 1950s the minutes were not recorded each month and there is a large gap between 1953 and 1958 where no minutes were recorded.

Dates: 1896-1959

Minute Book 5, 1959-1992

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: 5
Scope and Contents

One volume containing church minutes and obituaries of members taped in the front and back pages of the volume.

Dates: 1959-1992

Loose papers, 1879-1995

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: 6
Scope and Contents

Loose papers found in the bound volumes include a partial membership roster from the missing volume 3, loose minutes, letters of dismissal, news clippings about Old Cane Spring Church, and obituaries that had come loose from volume five.

Dates: 1879-1995

Minute Book 6, 1993-1996

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: 7
Scope and Contents

This volume closes with the meeting that dissolves the church.

Dates: 1993-1996