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R Franklin Baptist Association (Mo.).
153 Centennial
program, 1932.
One folder, photocopies.
This is a report on the annual session of
the Franklin Baptist Association, held at Three Rivers Church, Ste. Genevieve
County, Missouri, on the hundredth anniversary of the church and the Association. Included are the constitution and lists of
member churches of the Association, and histories of the church and the
Association.
J. C. Duckworth organized the Franklin
Baptist Association in 1832. It held
its first meeting at Meramec Church in Union, Missouri. Representatives from ten churches attended
the first meeting. At that time the
Association covered a large area, including parts of Crawford, Gasconade, St.
Francois, and Jefferson counties.
Initially nearly one hundred square miles in area, the Association’s
size fluctuated over time as churches joined the Association or left to form
or join other associations in southeastern Missouri. By 1932, the year of its centennial, the Association’s
membership included twenty-four churches with approximately 1400 members.
The annual meeting of the Association in
1932 was held at Three Rivers Church in Ste. Genevieve County, which, along
with the Association, was celebrating its centennial. The fifty-page program commemorating the event contains much
information on the Association and its programs, including homes for aged
Baptists and orphans, and work to further the causes if temperance and
Christian education. There are also
brief histories of the Baptist faith and the Franklin Baptist Association, and
a longer history of Three Rivers Church.
The church’s history contains excerpts from the minutes of its
organizational meeting in 1832. It also
includes a list of members of the congregation, 1832-1847.
There is an index to the centennial
program in the front of the booklet.
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