By Jackie Couture
Collection Overview
Title: Old Cane Spring Baptist Church Records, 1803-1995
Creator: Old Cane Spring Baptist Church (1803-1996)
Extent: 0.88 Cubic Feet
Date Acquired: 11/01/1996
Languages: English [eng]
Scope and Contents of the Materials
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 Bible has been annotated with dates that certain passages were used in the sermon. The records give insight into religious life in the 19th and 20th centuries and show the changes in the church during that time period.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Source:
Riddell, Donnie
Acquisition Method:
A permanent loan from Donnie Riddell, the pastor of the church.
Original/Copies Note:
There is a bound photocopy of the minute books in the Reading Room.
Box and Folder Listing
- Box 1
- Barcode: 31234014110942
- Folder 1: Minute Book 1, 1803-1841
- 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.
- Folder 2: Minute Book 1 Typescript, 1803-1841
- Folder 3: Minute Book 2, 1830-1873
- One volume containing Rules of Decorum, membership lists, and church minutes.
- Folder 4: Minute Book 4, 1896-1959
- 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.
- Folder 5: Minute Book 5, 1959-1992
- One volume containing church minutes and obituaries of members taped in the front and back pages of the volume.
- Folder 6: Loose papers, 1879-1995
- 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.
- Folder 7: Minute Book 6, 1993-1996
- This volume closes with the meeting that dissolves the church.
- Box 2
- Barcode: 31234014110926
- Folder 1: Pulpit Bible, 1871
- Includes some dates that seem to indicate that those passages were used for sermons.
- Folder 2: Thank-You Cards
- Sympathy thank-you cards found in the pulpit Bible.
- Item 1: Painting of Old Cane Spring Church, 2000
- Painted by Elaine Highley.