Information Sheet

R Webster Baptist Association of Missouri.

1201 Booklets, 1963-1971.

One folder.

These booklets contains minutes from the annual sessions of the Webster Baptist Association of Missouri, of which the member congregations were located in Webster County. There are booklets for 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, and 1971.

The Webster Baptist Association traces its roots to the Union Association of 1856 and the Freedom Association of 1859. The Webster Association of United Baptists was organized in 1868 with nine member churches in Webster, Wright, and Greene counties. The Rev. Jacob Good served as moderator for the first 48 annual sessions of the Association. By 1895 the Association had 28 member congregations, but that number had fallen to 19 or 20 for the duration of these minutes. The Association was affiliated with the Missouri and Southern Baptist Conventions.

Year Place Moderator

1963 Marshfield First Baptist Church Rev. Houston J. Crosby

1964 Fordland First Baptist Church Rev. Houston J. Crosby

1965 Good Spring Baptist Church Rev. Roy Cantrell

1966 West Finley Baptist Church Rev. Roy Cantrell

1967 Prospect Baptist Church Rev. Roy Cantrell

1968 Niangua Baptist Church Rev. O. H. Coay

1970 Good Hope Baptist Church Rev. Houston J. Crosby

1971 Diggins Baptist Church Rev. Lester Rogers

The booklets include the Association’s constitution, articles of faith, rules of order, minutes, reports, statistics, financial data, obituaries, and a directory of local church officials. For this period the Association’s member churches had about 3000 members, with Marshfield First the largest single congregation with about 600 members. Most of the booklets are 28 pages in length.

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