Information Sheet

R Beaver Creek United Baptist Church (Phelps County, Mo.).

219 Records, 1866-1888.

Two volumes.

MICROFILM

These are minutes of meetings and membership records of the Beaver Creek Baptist Church in Phelps County, Missouri. The church was founded in 1866 as Willow Spring Baptist Church, and was relocated and renamed in 1874.

Eleven charter members organized the Willow Spring Baptist Church after a protracted meeting on Little Dry Fork Creek near Rolla, 13-25 August 1866. George Sturdivant was the first pastor. The congregation met at different locations, including the homes of its members. In January 1874 the members voted to move the meeting place westward to Beaver Creek, and in June 1874 they reorganized as the Beaver Creek United Baptist Church. The designation as “United” appears to have lapsed into disuse by 1875, the same year in which the congregation dedicated its church building.

The church was affiliated with the Bourbois Baptist Association until 1877, when it transferred to the Dixon Baptist Association.

The record books of the Willow Spring and Beaver Creek churches were in the long-time possession of James S. Spencer (1838-1927), an early member, clerk, and deacon of the church. Printed minutes of the annual meetings of the Bourbois Baptist Association, 1877, and the Dixon Baptist Association, 1884, have been removed from these volumes and have been cataloged separately. James S. Spencer was Beaver Creek’s delegate to those meetings.

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