West Rowan Charge (Rowan County, NC)
Scope and Contents
The West Rowan Charge collection consists of one box containing: WEST ROWAN CHARGE - Committees: Joint Consistory Minutes, 1851-1888 (original & photocopy) MT. ZION REFORMED CHURCH, CHINA GROVE, NC - Annual Reports, 1953-1990 (incomplete) Includes Directories - Bulletins - Church Records: Directories, 1976, 1981 - Constitutions - History: General; Anniversary Celebrations, 1939-1988 - Newsletters, 1954-1981 (incomplete) - Photographs - Programs & Activities: Skit, "Treading Where the Saints Have Trod", by Mrs. Clyde (Pat) Corriher, 1976 -Committees: Evangelism, 1976 ST. PAUL'S REFORMED CHURCH, ENOCHVILLE, NC - History: General; Anniversary Celebrations, 1946-1986; News Clippings NEW GILEAD REFORMED CHURCH, CONCORD, NC - See Church RG 137
Dates
- Creation: 1768 - 2005
Biographical / Historical
The West Rowan Charge consisted of Mt. Zion Reformed Church (aka Savitz's or Savage's Church) of China Grove, NC and New Gilead (Cold Water) Reformed Church of Concord, NC from 1845 until 1887. In 1886 St. Paul's Reformed Church of Enochville (China Grove), NC joined the charge. New Gilead left the West Rowan Charge in 1891 and St. Paul's left in 1919. Pastors of Mt. Zion Reformed Church: 1768-1786 Samuel Suther 1789-1792 Andrew Loretz 1793-1802 Samuel Weyberg 1802-1830 George Boger 1830-1834 Daniel B. Lerch 1837-1845 John Lantz 1845-1856 Jeremiah Ingold 1858-1863 Samuel J. Fetzer 1863-1866 Jesse W. Cecil 1866-1874 John Ingle 1874-1875 Jesse W. Cecil 1875-1876 H. F. Long (supply) 1876-1877 Julius H. Shuford 1877-1881 Peter M. Trexler 1881-1891 Paul Barringer 1892-1894 Peter M. Trexler 1895-1900 Anthony Shulenberger 1901-1907 Joshua L. Bowers 1908-1912 M. M. Noacker 1912-1936 John H. Keller 1937-1946 Huitt R. Carpenter 1946-1946 G. Harold Myers (summer student) 1948-1954 G. Harold Myers 1954-1954 David E. Faust (supply) 1955-1959 Elden M. Spangler 1959-1959 John J. Carey (supply) 1960-1967 C. Larry Fisher 1968-1975 Robert F. Godfrey 1968-1974 David G. Kelly, Jr. (Associate Pastor) 1975-1988 G. Harold Myers 1976-1979 Wilton S. Haffey, Jr. (Assoc. Pastor) 1980-1987 Lawrence R. Bolick (Christian Ed.) 1987-1991 Debra A. Ebling (Associate Pastor) 1988-1989 Bobby Bonds (interim) 1989-???? William J. Campbell 1991-1994 Patricia J. Cadle (Associate Pastor) Pastors of St. Paul's Church 1886-1891 Paul Barringer 1892-1894 Peter M. Trexler 1895-1900 Anthony Shulenberger 1901-1907 Joshua L. Bowers 1908-1912 M. M. Noacker 1912-1918 John H. Keller 1918-1919 J. M. Luther Lyerly (supply) 1919-1938 Lee A. Peeler 1938-1939 John C. Peeler 1939-1942 Joseph D. Andrew 1942-1946 Frank K. Bostian 1946-1947 Carl T. Daye 1948-1948 David E. Faust (supply) 1948-1948 Richard A. Cheek (summer student) 1948-1952 Lewis E. Everline 1952-1953 Student supply from Catawba College 1953-1956 Carl R. Martin 1956-1958 Jacob A. Palmer (supply) 1958-1962 George R. Johnson 1962-1965 Harold H. Holtom 1966-???? G. Ermine Plott (supply) 1968-1974 Collie Seymour 1975-1979 Charles B. Terrell 1979-1983 Donald Sledge 1982-1991 Paul L. Pickler 1992-1996 Thomas O. Dekle 1997-2000 Allen Tyndall 2005-???? John Blazer
Extent
1 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Subject
- Andrew, Joseph Dixon (1913-1973) (Person)
- Barringer, Paul (1850-1925) (Person)
- Boger, George (1782-1865) (Person)
- Bolick, Lawrence Ray (1948) (Person)
- Bonds, Bobby Ray (1931) (Person)
- Bostian, Frank Keller (1912-1991) (Person)
- Bowers, Joshua Lindsay (1874-1951) (Person)
- Campbell, William John (1942-2020) (Person)
- Carey, John J. (1931-2017) (Person)
- Carpenter, Huitt Rudisill (1907-1981) (Person)
- Cecil, Jesse W. (1833-1899) (Person)
- Cheek, Richard Albright (1927-2014) (Person)
- Daye, Carl Theodore (1921-1989) (Person)
- Everline, Lewis Edward (1926) (Person)
- Faust, David E. (1897-1984) (Person)
- Fetzer, Samuel J. (1820-1861) (Person)
- Fisher, Charles Larry (1932) (Person)
- Godfrey, Robert F. (1931-2009) (Person)
- Ingle, John (1835-1926) (Person)
- Ingold, Jeremiah (1816-1893) (Person)
- Johnson, George Richard (1898-1988) (Person)
- Keller, John Haney (1874-1958) (Person)
- Lantz, John (1811-1873) (Person)
- Lerch, Daniel B. (1806-1834) (Person)
- Long, Henry F. (1845-1908) (Person)
- Loretz, Andrew, Jr. (1761-1812) (Person)
- Lyerly, James M. Luther (1862-1923) (Person)
- Martin, Carl Reed (1892-1942) (Person)
- Myers, G. Harold (1923-1998) (Person)
- Noacker, Milton Monroe (1860-1930) (Person)
- Palmer, Jacob Alexander (1885-1970) (Person)
- Peeler, John Calvin (1886-1957) (Person)
- Peeler, Lee Alexander (1886-1966) (Person)
- Pickler, Paul Lee (1952) (Person)
- Plott, George Ermine (1888-1975) (Person)
- Shuford, Julius H. (1849-1924) (Person)
- Shulenberger, Anthony (1848-1928) (Person)
- Spangler, Elden Morningstar (1920-1996) (Person)
- Suther, Samuel (1722-1788) (Person)
- Trexler, Peter Melanchon (1844-1923) (Person)
- Tyndall, Allen, Jr. (1941) (Person)
- Weyberg, Samuel (1773-1833) (Person)
- Cadle, Patricia J. (or. UCC 1991) (Person)
- Ebling, Debra A. (or. UCC 1987) (Person)
- Haffey, Wilton Stuart, Jr. (or. UCC 1975) (Person)
- Holtom, Harold Hubert (or. UCC 1962) (Person)
- Kelly, David Grey, Jr. (or. UCC 1968) (Person)
- Sledge, Donald Dennis (or. UCC 1967) (Person)
- Terrell, Charles B. (or. UCC 1975) (Person)
- Dekle, Thomas Ozwell (1927-1996) (Person)
- Seymour, Collie (1918-2003) (Person)
Geographic
- Title
- West Rowan Charge (Rowan County, NC)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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