Church history
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
African-American Heritage Exhibit materials
Collection
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0001
Scope and Contents
This collection contains research materials gathered during 2001 for an African American heritage exhibit put on by Rockbridge Historical Society. It also contains a booklet from 125th anniversary of the First Baptist Church in Lexington, Va.
Dates:
Inclusive 1992-2001 approximate
Buena Vista Presbyterian Church Register
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0295
Scope and Contents
This register of the Presbyterian Church of Buena Vista, Virginia was prepared during the pastorates of Reverend A.C. Hopkins and Reverend J.S. Montgomery, 1908-1926. It includes records of pastors, 1890-1924; elders, 1890-1925; deacons, 1912-1925; communicants, 1902-1926; baptisms, 1908-1924; marriages, 1925-1926; deaths, 1925-1926.
Dates:
Inclusive 1908-1926
Collection of research materials about William R. Clark
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0432
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a donor letter and accompanying materials about William R. Clark, specifically a photograph and a copy of his Curriculum Vitae. The letter includes memories of interactions with Clark. There is also a photograph of male members of the Randolph Street Methodist Church, Lexington, Virginia (ca. 1955).
Dates:
Inclusive 1950-2008
E. D. Heppert Collection of research materials on Burning Spring/Ebbing Spring Church
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0427
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of research materials on Burning Spring/Ebbing Spring Church in Glade Springs, VA gathered by E. D. Heppert.
Dates:
Inclusive 1972-1973
Grace Memorial Church Records
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0367
Scope and Contents
This collection is the minutes of a February 4, 1884 committee meeting at the church describing the funeral of former Virginia governor John Letcher (1813-1884) the week before, and the decision to name a group consisting of Lexington, Virginia notables to write a sketch of Governor Letcher's life. This group included G. W. C. Lee, Francis H. Smith, J. T. Preston, A. T. Barclay, and Col. Edmund Pendleton.
Dates:
1884
"Home School for Young Boys" Broadside
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0340
Scope and Contents
This broadside titled 'Home School for Young Boys, Grace Church Rectory, Lexington, Va.' by Reverend William Nelson Pendleton and Mrs. General Edwin G. Lee, who was his widowed daughter, provides information about the upcoming semester at their school.
Dates:
circa 1870
Lexington Presbyterian Church Records
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0327
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the records of various women's missionary societies in the Lexington Presbyterian Church (Lexington, Virginia), including minutes written by Margaret Junkin Preston and Ellen Glasgow. There is also a handwritten history (one page, front and back) of the Presbytery that explains the connection between Washington College, Lexington Presbyterian Church, and the Presbytery, which was written circa 1824.
Dates:
Inclusive 1824-1927; Majority of material found within Bulk 1877-1927
New Monmouth Presbyterian Church records
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0168
Scope and Contents
This collection includes deacons' minutes, sunday school records, the church register, cemetery records, congregational meeting minutes, and financial records of New Monmouth Presbyterian Church. Also includes some issues of the New Monmouth News/Newsletter, August 1979 - December 1981, March 1984, December 1987, May 2001, no date.
Dates:
1858 - 1984