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PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH HISTORY
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
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The Congregation
about 1880
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The Baptist Council Bluffs Church was organized on August 2, 1856, at the school
house in Rockford Township, near Loveland, in Pottawattamie County, by seven
charter members, viz., Elder John Case, W. A. Reel, Sarah Reel, Sarah Deal,
Josiah
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Skelton, Sintha Mace, and Arnnith Jones. The presbytery appointed Elder John
Case, moderator and Brother Hardin Jones, clerk. The name of the church was
to be called Council Bluffs Church. The church continued to meet at the school,
or in homes, until May 1864, when they built a new church building on ground
donated by Brother Hardin Jones. In 1865 the church sent delegates to be admitted
into the Western Association of Iowa, and in 1871 the church hosted the association.
In 1877 the church entered the Missouri Valley Association, which was formed
that year, by churches lettered out of the Western Association. Council Bluffs
Church gradually grew in number, and in 1931 reported 112 members in the statistics
of the Missouri Valley Association.
Ministers who were ordained by the church include: Elders William L. Jones
(1865); Isaac Skelton (1877); Joseph Moss (1889); J. M. Arledge (1898); Edward
M. Keeney (1905); William M. Jones (1910); Edgar Carter (1922); William T.
Branson; Thomas Pile (1954); and John T. Anderson (1978).
Other ministers who served the Council Bluffs Church include Elders John
Case, Tom Jenkins, Preston Doty, H. B. Willoughby, John Q. Jones, Edmon Latham,
Mastin Doty, J. W. Syester, B. F. Butler, Leslie Henry, C. V. Smith, John
T. Anderson, Kenneth Clevenger, and Kobee Trueblood.
SURNAMES OF MEMBERS:
Abbott, Acra, Adams, Aldredge, Alumbaugh, Anderson, Arledge, Bay, Birch,
Blakely, Boston, Branson, Brayton, Bridges, Brown, Bunch, Burch, Butler, Cammel,
Campbell, Carmichael, Carter, Case, Cerben, Clark, Cobb, Coffman, Combs, Comer,
Cox, Crawford, Crogham, Crowder, Curtis, Deal, Denton, Doty, Dulaney, Duncle,
Durant, Durman, Earnhardt, Epperson, Fouts, Frazier, Fry, Frye, Gardner, Gilmore,
Golden, Goodwin, Green, Hager, Harris, Hatcher, Hathaway, Hazlip, Hendrix,
Henry, Hiles, Hill, Hinkle, Homes, Hopper, Horton, Hoy, Hume, Jackson, Jeffery,
Jenkins, Jones, Keeney, Lakely, Lamb, Landreth, Latham, Logan, Loyd, Lucas,
Mace, Mason, Mattox, McKnight, McMullen, Millard, Morrison, Moss, Motsler,
Mullenix, Myers, O'Neal, Owens, Parker, Paulson, Payne, Pew, Pile, Place,
Points, Prophet, Ray, Reel, Rhoden, Ridpath, Roberts, Roden, Rodman, Salter,
Sarr, Sayles, Selvey, Shoemaker, Showalter, Skelton, Smith, Sorick, Spencer,
Stout, Suthers, Sutton, Thomas, Trout, Walker, Watts, White, Williams, Willoby,
Wilson, Wingate, Woods, Wright, Wyett.
ADDITIONAL REFERENCE MATERIAL IN THE PRIMITIVE BAPTIST LIBRARY:
Manuscript records of the Council Bluffs Church; Minutes of the Missouri
Valley Association; Photographs of the Council Bluffs Church; obituaries of
members in church periodicals.
NOTE TO RESEARCHERS AT USGENWEB: This information is provided
with the permission of Elder Robert Webb of the Primitive Baptist Church
Library at Carthage, Illinois, November 2002. Also note that many of the members
of the above families are buried at the Jones Cemetery, the Branson Cemetery,
and the Crescent Cemetery in Pottawattamie County, Iowa.
The Church's web page can be found at:
http://www.carthage.lib.il.us/community/churches/primbap/pbl.html
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