-----Original Message----- From: mrgentry@bellsouth.net <mrgentry@bellsouth.net> To: NCHALIFA-L@rootsweb.com <NCHALIFA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, February 06, 2000 11:56 PM Subject: Re: [NCHALIFA] Kehukee Baptist Church >Ann and Bea: > >I have already traveled the path to gain the old records from this church several >months back. I found out from the NC Archives, that they will not make copies of >microfilms from the records without consent of the controlling church. I asked >both the Archives and Wake Forest who the controlling church presently is, and >they told me they did not know. The Archives further told me that probably the >only way to see the records, was to visit the Archives to view them. If any >information is found on them, then I could have copies made. > >I also have some acestors which were members of the church, and would like to >look at their old records which started me on finding them last year. > >Mike Gentry > >Slowm@aol.com wrote: > >> Hello Ann, I apologize for being so long in responding to your query re: >> Kehukee Baptist Church in Halifax Co NC. >> I also have an ancestor who attended this church and in 1995 I wrote to the >> church inquiring about their records. It seems that there is also a KEHUKIE >> Baptist Church which has a black congregation. My letter went to them and a >> member of that Church gave it to Mr. Wilbur Weeks who was the caretaker at >> the time. Mr. Weeks gave it to Mr. Charlie Dunn Alston who responded to me. >> Mr. Alston is affliated with the Halifax Co Genealogical Society and you may >> wish to contact him. However, in his letter, he stated that the last member >> of the Church died in 1979 and it has been inactive since them. For a while >> there were yearly meetings for relatives and friends of members but they have >> also died out except Mr. Weeks and he was in poor health. Mr. Alston also >> said that the minutes of the church's quarterly meetings from about 1859 >> (when the church was reorganized) until the last member died in 1979 are on >> microfilm in the North Carolina Archives. He said sometimes an obit was >> written and placed in the minutes, sometimes not. He also referred to it as >> Primitive Baptist Church. He said the minutes are not indexed so be prepared >> to spend some time. You can contact Mr. Alston through the Halifax Co >> Genealogical Society. >> Hope this helps. >> What surnames are you researching out of Halifax Co.? >> My surnames are HUDSON/HUTSON, BRILEY, DAVENPORT >> >> Bea Hudson > Hello all, Are there any CARLISLE'S or MADRY'S buried at the Kehukee Bapttist Church???? I think their Allsbrook's cousins are. I'm doing Carlisle and Madry research of these families in the Scotland Neck area. Thank you, Lynn Hawkins