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Accession #BC2013/2
TopicMount Pleasant Church of the Brethren: Northern Indiana District
TitleRecords of the Mount Pleasant Church of the Brethren
SubtitleYellow River
LocationArchives (IS), COB Shelving Unit, South Wall
CitationRecords of the Mount Pleasant Church of the Brethren, BC2013/2, Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Funderburg Library, Manchester University, North Manchester, Indiana.
AccessResearchers are responsible for determining copyright status of archived materials where this is relevant to their intended use of the materials.
ProvenanceKarin Rettinger
Scope and Content

1. Limited membership records as kept by ministers.

2. File cards in box - membership notes by Pastor Alice Archer.

3. Large binder (replaced with file folder container by J. Wine) with notes by Pastor Allen Weldy on incoming and outgoing members. [Some inaccuracies and ommissions may exist.]

4. Excel document by Karin Rettinger.  This document summarizes her project, listing member names, dates and method of inclusion/withdrawal, birthdates, name/location of new chuch, date of death, and type of record where the information is located. [Note: Due to the nature of the primary source material some inaccuracies and ommissions may exist.]

4. Sunday School record books, 1917-1918 and 1919-1920.

5. Membership transfers into congregation, 1918 - 1970.

6. Membership transfers out of congregation, 1927-1998.

7. Certificates of Baptism.

Date of Accession08 May 2013
Bio History Note

Mount Pleasant Church of the Brethren started in 1848 as the Yellow River congregation and closed its doors at the end of 2011.

Archivist NoteDescription prepared 8 May 2013 by Jeanine M. Wine.
 


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