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Hoosier Baptists: Indiana Baptist Convention Death Notices Hoosier Baptists: Indiana Baptist Convention Death Notices Timothy Mohon Since first appearing as independent local congregations in seventeenth-century England, Baptists have held tenaciously to the autonomy of the local church. This Baptist distinction has been traditionally troublesome for the genealogist since local autonomy by definition precludes uniformity in record keeping and record holding. While rejecting outside control, Baptists historically have sought ways to foster connection among their churches. Following the English Civil War (1642–1649), Baptists began to collect their local bodies into associations. The Baptist association, unlike dioceses, presbyteries, conferences, and other organizations of denominational bodies, has no ecclesiastical authority over member churches, unless the members freely give it authority, which they rarely do. The first Baptist association to be formed in what is now the United States was the Philadelphia Baptist Association in 1707.1 Baptists began developing larger groupings—state and national conventions—in 1814, but not among all persuasions of Baptists. Therefore, understanding how, where, and when various associations formed can help the researcher know where to look for those Baptist records that have been collected in denominational, academic, local, and state libraries and archives. Several research lists concerning Hoosier Baptists, compiled by the author, are published in Online Connections in the Genealogy Across Indiana Department: “Baptist Associations in the State of Indiana: A Roster” (with a key to Baptist sub-denominations); “Baptist Associations in the State of Indiana: An Inventory of Published Proceedings” (with holdings throughout Indiana and in Louisville, Kentucky; Atlanta, Georgia; Cleveland, Ohio; and Nashville, Tennessee); and Hoosier Baptists: Indiana Baptist Convention Death Notices “Indiana Baptist Associational Minutes Printed in the Annual Proceedings of the Indiana Baptist Convention, 1916–1931.” To view these lists, visit the Genealogy Across Indiana Department of Online Connections on the IHS website, https://indianahistory.org/research/family- history/family-history-online-resources/genealogy-across-indiana/, and look for articles titled “Hoosier Baptists.” Articles published in The Hoosier Genealogist: Connections Genealogy Across Indiana Department, beginning with the Spring/Summer 2009 issue, give brief histories for several Indiana Baptist associations, telling when and where they were formed, when they disbanded or were absorbed into other associations, and introducing the secondary sources and authors that have discussed these associations. This article provides a listing in alphabetical order of death notices found in the minutes for the Indiana Baptist Convention from 1833 to 1900. While the articles described above give an abundance of information for Indiana Baptist associations and their nineteenth-century members, they represent less than half of the information available. More work on this important resource would make a valuable contribution to historical and genealogical research. INDIANA BAPTIST CONVENTION 1833–Present Thirty-seven individuals, representing twenty churches, met together on Friday morning, April 26, 1833, at the Brandywine Meeting House in Shelby County to organize “for the purpose of promoting” and “uniting the energies of the Baptists of Indiana in support of the gospel of Christ.”2 Known by various names throughout its history, the Indiana Baptist Convention (IBC; 2 © 2021 Indiana Historical Society Press. All rights reserved. Hoosier Baptists: Indiana Baptist Convention Death Notices today, the American Baptist Churches of Indiana and Kentucky) still strives toward this goal. The year 1833 was a major watershed for Hoosier Baptists. When first organized as the “General Association of Baptists of Indiana,” those gathered represented a very small proportion of the nearly three hundred Baptist churches across the state. For many theological and practical reasons, a significant number of Indiana Baptists opposed organizing mission-sending agencies. Ironically, the organization that sought to unite the Baptists served instead to divide the Regular Baptists across the state into two camps, Missionary and Anti-Missionary (or Primitive).3 Throughout the next century, the IBC raised funds to help support the ministry of local churches statewide. This was accomplished in two ways: first, missionaries (normally local preachers, not “outsiders”) were commissioned to evangelize and plant new churches in a particular area; second, local pastors’ salaries were supplemented. Many Baptists were unable to pay any salary to their pastors, and this support helped to maintain the preaching ministry in countless congregations.4 This desire to undergird local ministries was also supported through education. Franklin College was inaugurated in 1834 as the first step in this direction, aiming to bring higher education to young Baptists. A number of the college’s founders had been present at the first meeting of the IBC in 1833. At the IBC’s 1834 meeting, a report was presented to establish an “Indiana Baptist Sunday School Society.” In the second half of the century a Sunday school missionary was provided to establish and strengthen schools in the churches across the state.5 It is important to be aware of the names for the IBC as one seeks to find records for it in the various archives. Taking the list up to the present-day, the various titles for this statewide organization are listed below: 3 © 2021 Indiana Historical Society Press. All rights reserved. Hoosier Baptists: Indiana Baptist Convention Death Notices 1833–1836: General Association of Baptists of Indiana 1837–1845: General Association of Baptists in Indiana 1846–1863: Indiana Baptist General Association 1864–1895: Indiana Baptist State Convention 1896–1986: Indiana Baptist Convention 1986–2000: American Baptist Churches of Indiana Since 2000: American Baptist Churches of Indiana and Kentucky Because associations, like member churches, are autonomous, there are no rigid guidelines concerning archival storage of their historical records. Therefore, the annual minutes of a Baptist association often can be found in a variety of locations. Minutes for the Indiana Baptist Convention have been found in several repositories, but there are no extant minutes for the years 1859, 1862–1863, or 1865. American Baptist Churches of Indiana and Kentucky 1350 North Delaware Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 Indiana Baptist Convention records for years: 1873–1996 4 © 2021 Indiana Historical Society Press. All rights reserved. Hoosier Baptists: Indiana Baptist Convention Death Notices Franklin College B. F. Hamilton Library and Archives 101 Branigin Boulevard Franklin, IN 46131-2623 Indiana Baptist Convention records for years: 1833a–1833b, 1835–1858, 1860, 1864, 1866–2001 Indiana State Library, Indiana Division 315 West Ohio Street Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269 Indiana Baptist Convention records for years: 1854–1855, 1857–1858, 1860–1861, 1873–1899, 1901–1916, 1919–1969 Indiana University Herman B. Wells Library 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, IN 47405-3907 Indiana Baptist Convention records for years: 1876, 1920–1921, 1923, 1925–1934 5 © 2021 Indiana Historical Society Press. All rights reserved. Hoosier Baptists: Indiana Baptist Convention Death Notices Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives 901 Commerce Street, #400 Nashville, TN 37203-3630 Indiana Baptist Convention records for years: 1834, 1849, 1868–1869, 1876–1882, 1884–1885, 1891–1892, 1900, 1902, 1905–1914, 1916–1954, 1973 Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Archives and Special Collections 2825 Lexington Road Louisville, KY 40280 Indiana Baptist Convention records for years: 1833–1835, 1837, 1839–1843, 1846–1858, 1864, 1866–1870, 1873, 1876–1882, 1884– 1996 Many American Baptist associations began to include obituaries in their annual published proceedings around the middle of the nineteenth century. While not uniform in approach and scope, these minutes are often similar in format. Some of these death notices include extensive genealogical data, while others merely list churches with names of deceased members from the previous year. Individuals who served as pastors generally have more extensive accounts. After each name is the year of the printed minutes that are abstracted, page number for the entry, and either a brief account or a full listing of the notice. There were two meetings in 6 © 2021 Indiana Historical Society Press. All rights reserved. Hoosier Baptists: Indiana Baptist Convention Death Notices 1833. The April 1833 meeting is listed as 1833a and the October 1833 meeting is listed as 1833b. Notes 1. Parts of this article were published previously in The Hoosier Genealogist in an introduction to Timothy Mohon, “Death Notices in the Annual Minutes of the Friendship Baptist Association in Central Indiana, 1855–1900,” Part 1: A–E (Fall 2002): 164–67; Part 2: F–S (Winter 2002): 238–41; and Part 3: T–Z and Church Roster (Summer 2003): 96–101. 2. The published proceedings of annual meetings for various Indiana Baptist associations are designated as Minutes. Minutes Indiana Baptist Convention (April 1833): 1, 5. 3. Minutes, Indiana Baptist Convention (April 1833): 7; Randy K. Mills, “The Struggle for the Soul of Frontier Baptists: The Anti-Mission Controversy in the Lower Wabash Valley,” Indiana Magazine of History 94 (December 1998): 303–22. 4. William Taylor Stott, Indiana Baptist History, 1798–1908 (Franklin,
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