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for Primitive Baptist Churches in Forest County, Wisconsin
CHURCH:
SAMARIA (ALVIN/NELMA)
Samaria Church was organized in about 1915, with about 24 members, by Elder Alvin Spencer, who moved here in 1907, for his wife's health, from Kentucky, with their fifteen children. Several other families were also part of this church. Details of the constitution have not yet been found. The Green School was given to the church, and they met there for a number of years. One son, Elder John Ponder Spencer, also became a Primitive Baptist minister, and preached here. Samaria Church was listed in the 1916 minutes of the Red River Association of Kentucky. Samaria Church hosted the Red River Association in 1919, and 1938, and probably other times. Only a few of the minutes of this association have been found. By 1944, the church had dwindled down to 5 members, four of whom lived at Nelma, so the meetings were moved there, from Alvin. Elder William Powell served this church as pastor for many years, until his death in 1945. Obed E. Thrasher was serving the church as clerk in 1938.
SURNAMES OF MEMBERS:
Adams, Gibbs, McIntosh, Powell, Spencer, Thrasher (very incomplete due to loss of records).
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