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BAPTIST RECORDS
Trevia Wooster Beverly
Church records are particularly valuable to genealogists because they
are often available for years prior to government required vital statistics
or for years for which such records have been lost or destoyed. Church
records will vary from denomination to denomination. And, the amount of
detail contained in the church record will vary with the clerk who entered
the information. If your ancestor's church is no longer in existence,
a local historical society may know the location of its records, or they
may have been forwarded to the denomination's repository.
Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives. Operated by Historical
Commission, SBC. 901 Commerce Street, Suite 400, Nashville TN 37203-3620.
Write for the legal-size sheet describing their extensive holdings.
However, be aware that by agency policy, the staff can not engage in
or assist other people in genealogical research. However, all of their
resources are available to users who can do their own research. Also avail-
able free of charge is their current catalog, 68 History Helps, and among
the items listed for sale is HC-59 Microfilm Catalog, $6.00. If ordering
these two free items, enclose a #10 business-size SASE.
The Texas Baptist repository is the library at Southwestern Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas 76122.
Other Texas Baptist universities where historical and/or genealogical
materials may be found include
Baylor University, Waco 76798 *
Dallas Baptist University. 7777 West Kiest, Dallas 75211
East Texas Baptist University. Marshall 75670
Hardin-Simmons University. Abilene 79698
Houston Baptist University. 7502 Fondren Road, Houston 77074
Howard Payne Univeristy. Brownwood 76801
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. Belton 76513
Wayland Baptist University. Plainview 79072
as well as San Marcos Baptist Academy. San Marcos 78666. A mail inquiry
will bring you knowledge of their individual holdings as related to genea-
logical and individual church records.
* The Texas Collection of Baylor publishes Tejas=Friends, and the Fall
1984 issue announced the gifts of the WELLINGTON-STONER-McLEAN Family
Papers and the QUANAH PARKER Family Papers. Mrs. Malcolm D. McLean of
Arlington contributed records created between 1833 and 1899 by two genera-
tions of her family. Her great-grandfather, Dr. Royal Wetherton Wellington,
settled near Victoria and Refugion in the early 1850s, a former resident
of Missouri and Arkansas. Included in the papers are letters written by
and to his daughter, Anna Louisa Wellington Stoner, of Uvalde and Edwards
counties. In the early 1950s, Mrs. Elsie Hamill, a teacher in Mexia, be-
came intrigued by the history of nearby Fort Parker, and Cynthia Ann Parker
who had been kidnapped as a child during a Comanche raid on the fort in
1836. She learned the address of a daughter of Quanah Parker, Cynthia
Ann's half-Comanche son who had become the last chief of his tribe. Mrs.
Hamill did not keep copies of her own letters, but she retained those
she received from Mrs. Wanada Parker Page of Lawton OK. Twenty years ofletters which present some new material on the lives of Quanah Parker
and his family.
97STIRPES XXV
JUNE 1985
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