Information Sheet

 

 

R         Rocky Point Baptist Church (Ripley County, Mo.).

569                  Records, 1885-1933.

                                    One roll.

 

MICROFILM

 

 

 

These are the record books and miscellaneous papers of Rocky Point Baptist Church in west­ern Ripley County, Missouri.  The record books include lists of members and minutes of business meetings from the organization of the church in 1885 through 1923.  The papers in­clude corre­spondence and minutes of meetings from 1909 through 1933.

 

Rocky Point Baptist Church was organized on 29 July 1885 at Alsup Schoolhouse in west­ern Ripley County.  The Reverend Jesse B. Roach presided over the organization of the church and was the pastor for the first eight years of its existence.  Other pastors through 1926 included James Rutledge, J. J. Looney, C. A. Fowler, J. F. Glass, N. A. Brown, George Kenner, Charles Penrod, Knox Belue, and M. L. Winters.  M. T. Smith was the first clerk of the church and kept the records for nearly thirty years.  The congregation was a missionary Baptist organization.  Rocky Point first affiliated with the State Line Baptist Association, but joined the Eleven Point Baptist Association in 1888.

 

The records of the church consist of two volumes and a group of miscellaneous papers.  The volumes include minutes of church business meetings and membership rolls from the organiza­tion of the church through 1923.  Business consisted of the acceptance and dismissal of new members, appointing delegates to associational meetings, and disciplining members for unac­ceptable con­duct.  The papers include miscellaneous correspondence and incomplete minutes of meetings through 1933.

 

The records of Rocky Point Church were filmed for the donor on 16mm film by the Mis­souri State Archives.

 

 

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