Eddie Mikell, I was wondering if this book lists who the preacher is at the Bethany Baptist Church? Thanks, Sam Cottrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eddie Mikell" <mikell@virginia.edu> To: <MSLAWREN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 8:54 PM Subject: History of Bethany Baptist Church > Transcribed from handwritten Bethany Baptist Church records by Eddie Mikell, > all rights reserved. > E-mail mikell@virginia.edu for purchasing information on Lawrence County and > Jefferson Davis County > publications available on CD and hard copy. > Thank you for your support! > > > > (Eddie note - well as you can see from the bottom of the list, members are > already starting to get excommuncated! Looks like sin is heating things up > in the ol' church. Details to follow - guess things just don't change that > much..... ha.) > > > > MISSISSIPPI STATE, LAWRENCE COUNTY > > > > We, whose names here unto subscribed do certify that having been called upon > by a little body of members collected together on the waters of Whitesand > Creek, in order to form a constitution, we formed a presbytery and examined > into their standing and finding them ripe for a constitution, we set them in > order as a church to keep house for God to be known and distinguished by the > church at Bethany. Given under our hands, this 18th day of September, 1819. > > > Wm. Cooper > > > Micajah Fulgham > > > John P. Martin >