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 > > > > > > > > >

Thank you Robert. Unfortunatley, I don't have any more information about this Friendship Church in Warrick County, and there might have been two of them. All I know is that two of my great-great grandparents, Franklin and Elizabeth Irvin are buried in the OLD Friendship Church Cemetery in Warrick County. They moved from Kentucky to Indiana after the Civil War. She died in the early 1870s, and he died in 1895. All of their children who stayed in Indiana are also buried in that Old Friendship Church cemetery. Franklin's mother, Agness Shepherd Irvin/Ervin, helped to found Baptist Churches in Russell County KY and Wilkes County NC, but I don't know if they might have been Primitive Baptist or not. It seems you can't always tell if a church was Primitive Baptist. In Georgia, for example, I have found that a lot of chuches listed simply as "Baptist" were in fact Primitive Baptist. Another great-grandmother's family in Georgia were Primative Baptists, but the only reason I know that is that my grandmother and great aunts told me so. Most official references to the church simply refer to it as a Baptist Church. But to return to genealogy, Franklin Irvin's son, Samuel, married the eldest daughter of Rev. Thomas Boardman, who also lived in Warrick County and who was a minister there. Samuel and his wife, Mary Elizabeth, moved to Scott County Missouri in 1889, probably at the same time as Rev. Boardman and his wife moved to Missouri, and there, in 1906, their eldest son, Herschel, married my grandmother, Anna Jane Wagoner, who was from the Williamson, Pope, and Saline County IL families (Hall, Shufflebarger, Collier, and Waggoner) whose names appear on your Primitive Baptist Church lists. Thank you again. These are good pieces of the family puzzles. 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 >> > >> > >> >> >> >> >> > >