Hi Kaye:
Abraham Stark is also in my line. His daughter Rebecca married Peter Chastain, and
Peter's daughter Eliza married Nathan Stout.
-Bart Emanuel
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In a message dated 4/28/2004 9:43:01 AM Eastern Standard Time,
bwebb9(a)juno.com writes:
http://www.carthage.lib.il.us/community/churches/primbap/pbl.html
Hello: my name is Kaye Haughee and my husbands fourth great
grandfather was
Abraham J. Stark who founded and pastored several of the Primitive
Baptist
Churches in Indiana and surrounding areas. He was pastor of the Little
Flock for
six years according to an article we have and Prarrie Creek seven
years,
Friendly Grove and Mount Pleasant churches on limited terms. I know he
is buried
in Friendly Grove Cemetery Lewis Township Clay County Indiana. I would
greatly appreciate any information you might have on him and his
brother Aaron and
his different sons who were also connected to different churches.
Thank you
for your time.
Kaye Haughee
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004
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From: CEHAUGHEE(a)aol.com
To: INCLAY-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [INCLAY] Friendly Grove and Little Flock churches, Bretheren churches
In a message dated 4/28/2004 9:43:01 AM Eastern Standard Time,
bwebb9(a)juno.com writes:
http://www.carthage.lib.il.us/community/churches/primbap/pbl.html
Hello: my name is Kaye Haughee and my husbands fourth great grandfather was
Abraham J. Stark who founded and pastored several of the Primitive Baptist
Churches in Indiana and surrounding areas. He was pastor of the Little Flock for
six years according to an article we have and Prarrie Creek seven years,
Friendly Grove and Mount Pleasant churches on limited terms. I know he is buried
in Friendly Grove Cemetery Lewis Township Clay County Indiana. I would
greatly appreciate any information you might have on him and his brother Aaron and
his different sons who were also connected to different churches. Thank you
for your time.
Kaye Haughee
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Date: 28 Apr 2004 15:22:03
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From: jearondeau(a)comcast.net
To: INCLAY-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: Bee Ridge Cemetery???? Vigo County??
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Message Board Post:
Bee Ridge Cemetery is in Dick Johnson Township, Clay County Indiana. You can get there by
taking old 40 West from Brazil, turn North at the consolidated school and proced to Bee
Ridge Christian Church. The cemeter is next to it.
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004
17:45:14 EDT
From: ALANMCCUL(a)aol.com
To: INCLAY-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [INCLAY] Friendly Grove and Little Flock churches, Bretheren churches
Kaye -
This is what "History of Clay County" by Blanchard published in 1884 had to
say about Abraham Stark and his sons.
Pg 81 The MIssionary Baptists organized two societies in the South part of
the county at an early day - Good Hope Church, near Middlebury, about 1832, and
Friendly Grove Church, in Lewis Township, a few years later. The former
society built the log house on the present James Moody place, about 1835, the
first house of worship in the South part of the county. About 1839 or 1840, the
foundation of Friendly Grove Church was laid out on the Joseph Chambers place,
one mile Northwest of the present site. THis location was afterward
abandoned, adn the foundation put down where the builiding now stands a year or two
later, on Congress land, which the citizens afterward bought. The first house
built was an eight-square log one. The first ministers in these societies were
Abraham Stark, his sons, Daniel and Stephen. This denomination now numbers a
membership of about 300, comprising four societies, and having three houses,
aggregating $2500 in value."
Pg 196 It says that the log church one mile South of Middlebury was erected
in 1832 or 1833, and had no regular pastor until 1839. The church was
assisted in the meantime by William Stansel, Abraham Stark, Asa Frakes and Samuel
Sparks.
Pg 332 Friendly Grove Baptist church is the oldest religious society in
township organized in 1847. The early preachers were Revs. Chambers, Stark, and
Liston.
It goes on to say that Abraham Stark and David Stark were pastors of the
church.
It also says that in Lewis Township, from 1850 to 1857, there were seven
families living in the township. Among the voters were seven Crists, seven
Puckets, and seven Starks.
Alan McCullough
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004
20:38:16 -0500
From: Joe and Sharon Mills
To: INCLAY-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [INCLAY] Friendly Grove and Little Flock churches,
Bretheren churches
Bart,
References to Brethren churches in Indiana can be found in Roger
Sappington's "The Brethren in the New Nation." It's been some time since
I
read the book, but I know there were mentions of Brethren groups in Putnam
and Owen Cos. You may also find references in county histories, where
religious organizations are mentioned.
You might check the archives of the BRETHREN list for the Stout
surname. It will definitely show up. Or, if you don't find what you are
looking for, you might join the list for a time. Several historians on the
list have access to the limited history kept by Brethren churches of the
era.
Sharon Mills
At 08:22 AM 4/28/2004, you wrote:
Does anyone know what kinds of records (if any) were kept by Firendly
Grove (Baptist Church) and Little Flock (Primitive Baptist) in Lewis
township? Also, which Bretheren church was closest to Lewis Township?
I have both of the Clay County histories and the Lewis Twp history.
I am researching STOUTs in Clay County. My g-g-gfather Nathan STOUT was
apparently one of the founding members of Little Flock. Most of the other
STOUT families in Lewis Twp attended Friendly Grove. Nathan's son George
Washington STOUT is mentioned in oral tradition as having been a minister
in the Bretheren church, and was later an elder in the Methodist church in
Kansas and Oklahoma. Nathan's family lived in Lewis township from before
1850 to around 1882, and then went on to Kansas and OK and
beyond. Several of Nathan's children were married by Absalom Briley.
-Bart Emanuel
Bart Emanuel
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