Bethel Reformed Church (Bear Creek, NC)
Scope and Contents
The Bethel (Bear Creek) Reformed Church collection consists of one box containing: - Annual Reports, 1977 (includes Directories) - Bulletins - Cemetery Records: Records, copied & indexed by Mary Sink Berrier, 1991; Tombstone Inscriptions (in published history) - Church Records (transcription): Baptisms, 1818-1913; Marriages, 1858-1900; Membership (in published history) - History: General; News Clippings, Published - Legal Records: Deeds - Photographs - Auxiliary Organizations: Vacation Church School Certificate DUTCH BUFFALO CREEK MEETING HOUSE/ BETHEL BEAR CREEK UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST, by Bostian, Cruse, Moose, & Moose, 1974, 2007.
Dates
- Creation: 1745 - 2007
Biographical / Historical
From 1745-1806 there was an informal congregation that met at the Dutch Buffalo Creek Meeting House. In 1806 they organized to become Bethel (Bear Creek) Reformed Church Pastors who have served this church include: 1806-1830 George Boger 1830-1834 Daniel B. Lerch 1837-1853 John Lantz 1853-1869 Thornton Butler 1869-1874 John C. Denny 1876-1881 Robert F. Crooks 1882-1884 G. Dickie Gurley (supply) 1884-1891 Calvin Boyd Heller 1894-1900 Paul Barringer 1901-1906 John H. Keller 1907-1909 E. Garver Williams 1910-1911 Anthony Shulenberger 1911-1913 Border L. Stanley 1914-1918 William C. Lyerly 1919-1921 Aaron R. Tosh 1921-1929 Charles W. Warlick 1930-1941 William S. Gerhardt 1942-1949 Aubrey W. Hedrick 1950-1953 Thomas Hoffman 1954-1958 Merle R. Sollinger 1958-1967 Charles E. Hiatt 1967-1971 Harold Holste 1971-1972 Harvey Black (supply) 1972-1981 Henry Meier 1981-1982 Paul Pickler 1982-1983 Phillip Grigsby 1984-1989 Charles Smith 1990-1992 Richard Rogers 1993-1995 Lloyd Pendergraft 1996-2006 Charles Jones 2006-???? Bobby Bonds (interim)
Extent
1 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Subject
- Barringer, Paul (1850-1925) (Person)
- Black, Harvey Wilson (1896-1985) (Person)
- Boger, George (1782-1865) (Person)
- Bonds, Bobby Ray (1931) (Person)
- Bostian, Frank Keller (1912-1991) (Person)
- Butler, Thornton (1820-1870) (Person)
- Crooks, Robert Franklin (1847-1924) (Person)
- Denny, John Calvin (1825-1898) (Person)
- Gerhard, William Seibert (1881-1959) (Person)
- Gurley, George Dickey (Dickie) (1847-1924) (Person)
- Hedrick, Aubrey Wilson (1912-2000) (Person)
- Heller, Calvin Boyd (1853-1935) (Person)
- Hiatt, Charles Edward (1897-1982) (Person)
- Hoffman, Thomas E. (1926-1989) (Person)
- Holste, Harold Wayne (1931-2019) (Person)
- Keller, John Haney (1874-1958) (Person)
- Lantz, John (1811-1873) (Person)
- Lerch, Daniel B. (1806-1834) (Person)
- Lyerly, William Clarence (1889-1954) (Person)
- Meier, Henry John (1912-1995) (Person)
- Moose, Thomas Luther (1906-1994) (Person)
- Pendergraft, Lloyd Albert (1941) (Person)
- Pickler, Paul Lee (1952) (Person)
- Shulenberger, Anthony (1848-1928) (Person)
- Smith, Charles Martin (1867-1923) (Person)
- Sollinger, Merle F. (1909-1995) (Person)
- Stanley, Borden Levi (1883-1965) (Person)
- Tosh, Aaron Robert (1888-1983) (Person)
- Warlick, Charles Wharton (1876-1967) (Person)
- Williams, Edward Garver (1848-1920) (Person)
- Grigsby, Phillip Newman (or. UCC 1976) (Person)
- Jones, Charles F. (or. UCC 1964) (Person)
- Rogers, Richard Allen (or. UCC 1981) (Person)
Geographic
- Title
- Bethel Reformed Church (Bear Creek, NC)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the E&R Library & Archives Repository
555 W. James Street
Lancaster PA 17603 United States
717-290-8734
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