This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stancil, Johnson, Massengill Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RO.2ADE/199 Message Board Post: I'm searching for contact information for Salem Primitive Baptist Church located in Wilders Township, Johnston County, NC. The church is standing and in good repair and the cemetery is well-cared for. However, the archivist for the Primitive Baptist association has no record of this church and I can find no telephone listing. The church is located on SR 1742 (which is a dirt road). If you know of a current member of this church (I assume it is still operational) I can contact for information or have any ideas about how I might find a contact, please respond. A name and phone number or email address would be very much appreciated. Many thanks. Carla Stancil Townsend
At 10:43 AM 7/2/2003 -0600, CarlaTownsend@nc.rr.com wrote: >I'm searching for contact information for Salem Primitive Baptist Church >located in Wilders Township, Johnston County, NC. The church is standing >and in good repair and the cemetery is well-cared for. However, the >archivist for the Primitive Baptist association has no record of this >church and I can find no telephone listing. The church is located on SR >1742 (which is a dirt road). > >If you know of a current member of this church (I assume it is still >operational) I can contact for information or have any ideas about how I >might find a contact, please respond. A name and phone number or email >address would be very much appreciated. > >Many thanks. > >Carla Stancil Townsend It sounds like this church may be on a circuit. Have you checked with other Primitive Baptist churches in the area? If the church does not have a sign, it may have gone under private ownership, and, if so, would be cared for by whoever bought it. Sometimes churches do lose their records. I am not a Primitive Baptist and have no relatives in that church. I am basing what I am telling you on my experiences with Methodist churches. Elizabeth Whitaker Easley, South Carolina