Hi Cindy, What is the link to the county web page? I am sorry to hear the church has been torn down, my McGhee family attended the church and are buried in the cemetery. Tula Sharp >From: Cindy Birk Conley <cbconly@midwest.net> >Reply-To: ILWHITE-L@rootsweb.com >To: ILWHITE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [ILWHITE] Lick Creek Baptist Church >Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:52:40 -0600 > >John, > >I hope to put the Lick Creek photo on the county web page this evening. >I have been adding some obits and wills recently. > >Elder Robert L Webb <bwebb9@juno.com>, who is the Primitive Baptist >librarian and historian says he has Lick Creek records from 1824 to >1984. There may also be some at the genealogy library in Carmi as well. > >I need to go out there and take photos of how it has been cleared off, >and see if the one or two primitive baptists I know have info on how it >was closed. My understanding is that for several years church members >from throughout the county rotated services between the several country >churches and had potlucks to keep all of them going. > >Cindy > >John Hannah wrote: > > > > I, for one, am sorry to hear that the Lick Creek Church was torn down. > > My gggrandfather, Thomas J. Aud, was a minister there in the 1840's. >Both he > > and my ggrandfather and most of their families are buried there. > > Why was the church destroyed? Does anyone know where the church records >are > > stored or if they were even saved? > > I have pictures of the church before it was torn down. I would be >interested > > in any and all pictures of the church as it was being destroyed. > > If anyone is interested in sharing those pictures please contact me at > > jbhannah@earthlink.net . > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus