Church and Family History Assistance
for Primitive Baptist Churches in DeWitt County, Illinois
CHURCHES:
NEW PROVIDENCE
New Providence Regular Predestinarian Baptist Church was organized in June 1853 by Elder Michael Mann, and Brethren R. S. Scroggins and J. Froman. The charter members were Simon Williams, Sarah Williams, Ellenor Baird, Lucilla Duncan, Tarlton Embree, Ursula Breslford, Elizabeth Gamble, and John B. Moore. The following served the church as pastor, viz., Elders John B. Moore, Stephen Hukill, Pallas McKay, John H. Myers, James H. Ring, and Lemuel O. Davis. New Providence Church united with the Sangamon Association, and remained a member of that body until 1861, when it went into the organization of the Salt Creek Association. In about 1867, it was decided to dissolve this small association, and New Providence Church afterward reunited with the Sangamon Association. In May 1873, Elder John B. Moore and his wife Tamar deeded about an acre of land to New Providence Church and all those interested in the burial ground as a place of interment. New Providence Church erected a comfortable meeting house, about two miles east of Kenney, in Tunbridge township, (Twp. 19, Sec. 13.). The cemetery is still known as the Old Baptist cemetery.
ADDITIONAL REFERENCE SOURCES AVAILABLE FROM THE PRIMITIVE BAPTIST LIBRARY, CARTHAGE, IL:
Obituaries of some of the members and pastors in the indexed volumes of church periodicals such as Messenger of Peace and Primitive Monitor. Minutes of the Sangamon Association of Regular Predestinarian Baptists. Biographical History of Old School or Primitive Baptist Ministers in the United States of America, published in 1909. Free pamphlet regarding the life of Elder George Y. Stipp, who held a public debate at Kenney.
SURNAMES of families who held membership in this church include (if you know of others, please advise us and send proof): Armstrong, Ashert, Baird, Balis, Blue, Breslford, Conklin, Cox, Davis, Duncan, Embree, Gamble, Hukill, Johnson, Kemp, Knight, McKay, Moore, Nesbitt, Pugsley, Smith, Squires, Stipp, Story, Whitehead, and Williams.
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