Robert, there is a good website for Warrick County IN Genealogy (a distant cousin of mine is the webmistress), and it has a page listing a lot of graves for the Old Friendship Church Cemetery. Go to http://us-gen.org/in/warrick/cemeteries/oldfriendshipcem.htm Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert L Webb" <bwebb9@juno.com> To: <ILPOPE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 1:47 PM Subject: Re: [ILPOPE-L] Website of the Primitive Baptist Library, Carthage, Illinois > Judy, > Since there is an unlimited amount of work for me to do on this, > I sometimes put priorities based on inquiries. So, I dug out the minutes > of Little Zion association of Indiana and went through and made a list of > names of members for several of the members. Very incomplete, but more > than I had done before. I'll send you privately some of the names for > Friendship church. My notes say it is or was located about 3 miles south > of Gentryville. Do you by any chance have a picture of the church? I > have the name of the person who was the last living member, it looks like > it may have ceased to meet in about 1990. > Robert > > > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 12:06:42 -0800 "Judy Armstrong" <judy@armstrongs.org> > writes: >> Robert, thank you very, very much for posting this. I just found the >> names >> of several of my ancestors and the families into which their >> siblings >> married in Saline, Pope, and Williamson County IL in your database. >> I have >> always suspected that the glue that pulled them all together might >> have been >> a church, and now I know what it was. >> >> I also discovered from your website that the Friendship Church (in >> whose >> graveyards two of my ggg grandparents are buried) in Warrick County >> IL was >> also a Primitive Baptist Church. >> >> I also noticed that you do not yet have any information in your >> database >> about Scott County Missouri. Rev Thomas Malcolm Boardman, who was >> the pastor >> of the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church (also called Boardman Chapel) >> in Scott >> County MO from the decade the turn of the century till the 1920s was >> my gg >> grandfather. I would like very much to know if that church was also >> >> Primitive Baptist. I suspect it was, and I suspect my gg grandfather >> was a >> member of the Friendship Church in Warrick County IN, before he left >> there >> to take up a new ministry in MO. I have some photos of the Pleasant >> Valley >> Church in Scott County and of Rev. Boardman, my gg grandfather, and >> I would >> be happy to share with you if it turns out his church was Primitive >> Baptist. >> Please feel free to contact me at rmstrng@aol.com. >> >> Judy >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Robert L Webb" <bwebb9@juno.com> >> To: <ILPOPE-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 8:06 AM >> Subject: [ILPOPE-L] Website of the Primitive Baptist Library, >> Carthage, >> Illinois >> >> >> > Dear friends, >> > For the sake of new subscribers to the forum who may not >> already be >> > aware of our work, I would like to post our website address again, >> below. >> > Our library has a large collection of church records, periodicals, >> > minutes, photos, obituaries, books, biographies, etc., from which >> we have >> > been trying to help genealogists since 1988, when we formally >> organized >> > our library. We have over 54,000 names of members mostly in the >> midwest >> > entered into a database in our computer, together with the year of >> birth >> > and death when available, and the date they joined the church when >> known, >> > etc. We are adding to this database, and to our collection, as >> much as >> > time permits us to do so with our very limited volunteer staff, >> > consisting of my wife and daughter and myself. We hope 2006 will >> be a >> > good year for you, and welcome you to write to us if we can be of >> any >> > help. >> > Our website is: >> > http://www.carthage.lib.il.us/community/churches/primbap/pbl.html >> > Elder Robert Webb >> > The Primitive Baptist Library >> > Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois >> > >> > >> >> >> >> >> > >