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As a branch of this great doctrine of God's sov- erignty, which the Presbyterian Church has ever taught and lived upon, you are pointed to
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III. The Doctrine of a Particular Providence.
It is the doctrine that there are no accidents in this world; that all things are ordered of the Lord, and sure, that everything that takes place occurs under either his permissive or ordering providence; that a sparrow does not fall to the ground without his no- tice; that even the hairs of your head are numbered.
You will perceive at once the influence over the hearts of men of this precious scriptural truth. It puts God in the very midst of your life ; gives him a place in all the events that concern your being. You may say, "I have set the Lord always before me. Be- cause he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved." Here, in God's immediate connection with the events of every life, directing and controlling human destiny, is the basis for all authority. The submission of the will and the life to such a God prepares one to sub- ordinate himself to the just claims of the State.
As society can not exist without law and govern- ment, without the recognition of mutual obligation, and the subordination of individual interest to the general good, you can not fail to see the bearing upon society of a system of truth which exalts God, rec- ognizes his authority over us, and undertakes obedi- ence to that authority. Here is the material for the best citizen.
A fruitful source of danger to human society has ever been the disposition to ignore authority. There is no greater peril in the present hour than is found in the irreverence, the breaking away from authority, the pushing of insubordination to the extreme of law- lessness. The pendulum now swings to the extreme
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of liberty, even to license. Individual liberty is in danger of being pushed to the point of anarchy. Hence the need of the world, whatever may be the wish, is the recognition of authority. That system of doctrine and life which teaches men obedience to rightful authority in morals has proved to be and will continue to be the power which will conserve the highest interests of society. These doctrines of our Church have not only inspired men to achieve liberty, but to preserve it by subordinating the individual life and interest to the common good.
IV. Further, the doctrine of the Supreme Authority of the Scriptures as the Word of God, hence the only infallible rule of life and duty, has had a prominent place in the teachings of our Church.
The Scriptures are held to be the word of God to a lost world-the light that is to enlighten every dark- ened soul. Every system of morals or theology is to be brought to the test of this truth. Here again our Church in her teaching and life has put herself on the side of authority-of divine authority. She has rec- ognized a source of truth unfailing-a court of appeal beyond which nothing can be desired. She is accus- tomed to submit her judgment and all her philosophies to a "thus saith the Lord," and has therefore to the full extent of her life and influence again exalted di- vine authority.
While other branches of Christ's Church have held the theory of the inspiration of the Scriptures, and do hold to this theory, yet none have more carefully or more valiantly made a practical test of this theory So marked has been the doctrine and life of our
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Church on this subject, that we have been charged (as if it were a fault) with accepting doctrines of the Bible, simply because they are found in the word of God; doctrines which human reason can not fathom, which God has not explained, only revealed.
The chief value of this subordination of our will and wisdom to the authority of God's word lies in two directions: first, it is an acknowledgment of au- thority, and so far prepares the way for all just author- ity in the State; and, secondly, it is an acknowledg- ment of the best and highest authority, that which can give the largest blessings to society and to the State.
The moral force of Presbyterian doctrine and life will be seen again in the doctrine which our Church has ever held and inculcated on the subject of
V. Parental Responsibility.
We recognize the children of believers as in cove- nant relation to the Church. We hold ourselves morally bound to teach them the truth of God's word, to train them to habits of reverent piety, praying with them and for them, to teach them obe- dience to parental authority, respectful deference to the aged, and to all that are in authority. While we can not claim to have succeeded perfectly in our work in this regard, yet probably no branch of the Church has done so much faithful work in this direction. Presbyterians have been proverbial in the past for their careful instruction of their children, for teach- ing subordination in the family.
In these days of less carefulness and faithfulness our fathers have been criticised-but with no just
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ground-for over-much painstaking in the moral train- ing of their children.
Every intelligent mind, familiar with the history of society, can perceive the value to the world of such family culture. Especially do those who have to do with the administration of justice in the State have occasion to mark the value of this sort of nurture.
The lawlessness, the profligacy and pauperism which afflict society are not the outgrowth of such family discipline. They come from the homes where children are neglected, where prayer and scriptural study are not known, where disobedience to parents is the school which prepares the young for open vice and crime. We can not overestimate the value to the State of the highest forms of life in the Christian home. Without morals and nurture in the family we can have no morals in the State. When once the popular vices of society have entered the family and rooted out all religious nurture there, taught insub- ordination and willfulness in our homes, then society is prepared for anarchy and ruin. But so long as the Church of Christ is true to her covenanted chil- dren, the State will be secure in the morality and piety of her coming citizens, legislators and adminis- trators of government.
The moral force of our Church doctrine and life will be discovered in the prominence which has been given to
VI. The Law of the Christian Sabbath.
Our Church has taken and ever maintained the high and scriptural ground that "the Sabbath was made for man;" for his physical, intellectual and
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moral being. Hence we have not only taught that the Sabbath was to be a day of physical rest, but also a day of respite from all secular pursuits and pleasures, a day for religious worship, for communion with God, for the study of his word. This has been the doctrine of our Church, and her life has grown out of these views.
The influence of such doctrine and life upon society has made itself felt. It has kept prominently before society the scriptural observance of the Sabbath, and has wrought out the best civil and social conditions for the race. It has produced a moral and religious sentiment on this subject, without which just govern- ment could not long exist; for no nation can live and prosper without a Sabbath. History has but one utterance on this subject. The desecration of the Jewish Sabbath led to the demoralization and over- throw of Jewish national life. The loss of the moral · values, which the proper observance of the Sabbath had given them, left them a prey to all the vices of the surrounding nations. When their Sabbath was gone they fell. They could not build up and strengthen national virtue without it. On this point history has repeated itself, as often as any nation that has known the uses of the Sabbath has abandoned those uses. No other fact of history has been put on record more distinctly than this. Vice, immoral- ity, lawlessness, debauchery of every kind, enter the national life as fast as the Christian Sabbath is given up. France, with her culture, her bravery, her love of liberty, her military power, her heritage of soil, climate and great men, has found no resting-place,
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no settled life, since she abandoned the command of God to " Remember the Sabbath-day, to keep it holy." But cast your eye across the English Channel, to the land of Sabbath observance. There is stability of government there. The stern men who through England, and Scotland especially, are often sneered at for their sturdy virtues are yet the men that furnish the material for stable government. When revolu- tions have come to those lands in the past they have brought a better life. The land of Knox, with its strict Sabbath observance, has furnished the solid character for continual progress in civil and religious life. Perhaps there is no spot on earth which more clearly illustrates the prophecy of the text: "Out of Zion shall go forth the law," than Scotland, where the doctrine and life of the Presbyterian Church has had its best development.
It is easy in this volatile age to criticise the stern, honest, decided men of the Scottish churches, but it is not so easy to produce such men. They can not be made from the doctrines of naturalism. They were born of the creed that exalts God, acknowledges his authority over the life and conscience. The material of which are made such men as William the Silent, Luther, Calvin, Knox, Melville, Cromwell, Milton and Bunyan is not found in the liberalism of to-day. Though these men were not all Presbyterians, they were one in the Calvinistic system. Froude, whose peculiar religious views will not expose him to the charge of a bias in favor of "the severe doctrines,". has well said: "The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness." The same author, in his
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candid and able "Address before the Students of St. Andrews," having held a different creed all his life, makes the concessions to the Calvinistic system, which the facts of history force upon every honest mind. He says: " I am going to ask you to consider how it came to pass, that, if Calvinism is indeed the hard and unreasonable creed which modern enlight- enment declares it to be, it has possessed such singu- lar attractions in past times for some of the greatest men that ever lived, and how-being, as we are told, fatal to morality the first symptom of its operation, wherever it was established, was to ob- literate the distinctions between sins and crimes, and to make the moral law the rule of life for States as well as persons.
" I shall ask you why, if it be a creed of intellectual servitude, it was able to inspire and sustain the brav- est efforts ever made by man to break the yoke of unjust authority. When all else has failed, when patriotism has covered its face, and human courage has broken down * when intellect has yielded * when emotion and sentiment, and tender imaginative piety have become the hand-maids of superstition, and have dreamt themselves into forget- fulness that there is any difference between lies and truth, the slavish form of belief, Calvinism, in one or other of its many forms, has borne ever an inflexible front to illusion and mendacity, and has preferred rather to be ground to powder like flint, than to bend before violence or melt before enervating temptation." This impartial testimony of Mr. Froude was given in the face of his own earlier prejudices, and after a care-
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ful survey of the history of his own nation, and of the influence of Calvinism on the world since the Reformation.
It is the testimony of history. Had the Presby- terian Church been ever true to her mission, had she spent less time in the ecclesiastical enforcement of her doctrines, and more in that enforcement which her life would secure, her power over the world would have been even greater than it has been.
Thus it has not seemed to me out of place, in con- nection with the half-century celebration of the or- ganization of this church, to call to mind the faith and life which planted this church in the wilderness fifty years ago, and which has maintained the institu- tions of the gospel until this present time.
With no zeal for that denominationalism which is uncharitable and even divisive, which would build itself at the expense of what is beautiful and true in every Christian denomination, we yet cleave to the system of doctrine which has made itself felt in the past, and which is a power in the present.
Let us remember that while there can be no life without doctrine-for "he that cometh to God must believe that he is "-yet there may be doctrine with- out life, there may be a dead faith. Hence we shall only prove ourselves worthy of our fathers, and of Him who is the Father of all renewed souls, in pro- portion as we live lives which will commend the gospel of God. It is life that God demands of us to-day, not only profession but life-stern, honest, true, godly life; so that "Out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem."
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APPENDIX.
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APPENDIX.
NOTE .- The following list of names was prepared by Judge D. D. Banta, while preparing the "Historical Address" for the half- century meeting. As it is a paper of great interest and value, he * has kindly consented to furnish it as an appendix to the present volume. Indeed, to those who have been members of the First Presbyterian Church of Franklin, this list of names will have a value scarcely less than the preceding pages of this volume. S. E. WISHARD.
A LIST of the names of the members of the Pres- byterian Church of Franklin, entered in the order of their admission, in which is shown whether they were admitted on certificate or on examination, and the time when any of them died or were dismissed, in so far as the church records disclose these facts.
DATE.
NAMES.
How Ad- mitt'd
DIED.
DISMISSED.
1824
Nov. 30
George King
. .
Eleanor King
April 7, '31
66
Joseph Young
Sept. 2, '52 66
Nancy Young
David McCaslin
June 17, '30
Oct. 13, '51
1825
June 25
Simon Covert
cer.
May 13, '31
66
Mary his wife
66
Sept., 1827
1827
May 30 Patsy Freeman 66
66
66
Mrs. Jane Voorheis
Mrs. Ann Covert
Oct., 1828
66
John Henderson
66
66
Mary Henderson
66
66
John Covert
66
.
66
Catharine his wife
66
1828
Jan. 30
John Campbell
ex.
Dec. 13, '35
66
Agnes his wife
66
March 3
Samuel Johnson
66
Sept. 27, '33 66
66
Susanah his wife
66
(233)
May 13, '31 66
66
Mrs Margaret Gilcrees
Jane his wife
ex.
234
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DATE.
NAMES.
How Ad- mitt'd
DIED.
DISMISSED.
1829 Jan. 10
William Magill
cer.
May 13, '31
66
Sarah his wife
66
66
Elizabeth his d'ghter
66
Mrs. Rachel Voorheis
66
66
John Voorheis
66
May 13, '31 66
66
Hannah his wife
66
May 13, '31
66
Lana his wife
60
Mary Demaree
66
ex. 66
Jan. 12
Mrs. Lydia Herriott
66
May 13, '31
66
Mahala his wife
June
Mrs. Margaret Smiley Mrs. Charity Bergen
Dead
66
Robt. Gilcrees
66
Oct. 10, '56
Elizabeth his wife
66
May 13, '31
66
Mrs. N. Rutherford
66
66
Daniel Covert
60
May 13, '31
66
Rachel his wife
66
66
August
Thomas Henderson Mary his wife
66
66
66
Isaac Vannuys
66
Ellen his wife
66
66
Mrs. Eliza Williams
Feb. 16, '30
Sept. 16, '54
66
Charlotte his wife
May 17, '43
1830
Feb. 4 S.
Saml. Vannuys
cer.
May 13, '31
Anna his wife
Peter Demaree
66
April 24 66
Newton McCaslin
Martha his wife
ex. cer. 66
Mar. 28, '32
66
Mrs. Mary Luyster
Caleb Varnay
66
Nov. 1, '73.
Mary his wife
Dorcas Voorheis
Peter Lagrange
66
David McCaslin
Stephen Luyster
Eli Gilcrees
235
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DATE.
NAMES.
How Ad- mitt'd
DIED.
DISMISSED.
April 24 David McCaslin, Sen. cer
Dec. 19, '50
Mary his wife
"
May 16, '41
66
Saml. Mckinney
Feb. 15, '51 66
Milly Magill (colored)
ex.
May 13, '31 1834
Thomas Graham
cer.
Polly his wife
James H. Graham
66
66
Polly R. Graham
Saml. C. Graham
1834
66
Betsy his wife
Cornelius Covert
66
May 13, '31 66
Nov. 20
Margaret Mitchell
Rhoda H. Monfort
Nov., 1830
Elizabeth Monfort
April 26,'45 May 13, '31
66
Nancy his wife
66
66
Susan his wife
66
66
Peter Bergen
66
Anna his wife
66
66
1831
May. 21 Archibald C. Graham
1834 Dismissed.
Catharine King
John Wilson, Sen.
Sept. 29, '50 66
John Wilson, Jun.
66
Sally McCale
Dec. 23, '45
66
Samuel Allison
66
66
Mary his wife 66
Esther A. Wilson
Alexander Wilson
Catharine his wife
Hannah Brice
66
Mathew Thompson
ex.
66
66
Jacob Covert
Ann Covert
66
66
July 1 S. Nov. 7 66
Susanah his wife
66
John B. Johnson
Andrew Carnine
Theodore List
Jane Wilson
236
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
DATE.
NAMES.
H OW Ad- mitt'd
DIED.
DISMISSED.
Aug. 27
Robt. Robb
Mary Parr
Catharine Banta
Ann Eleanor Robb
ex.
Nov. 7, '39 Sept. 22, '50
Dec. 28 1832 Apr. 12
William G. Shellady
Margaret Banta
May 3, '37 Sept. 25, '42
66
Catharine Thompson Ephraim Herriott
April 14,'46
Nov. 12, '58
66
Margaret his wife 66 ex.
Dec. 27, '37
Sep. 28
Eliza Jane Shellady Douglass G. Shellady cer. William A. Ross Elizabeth his wife
66 66
Aug., 1855
66
Abram S. Howsly
cer.
1832 April 4, '37 66
1833 Apr. 4
66
Nancy Thompson John McCord
ex.
Feb. 23, '34 April 13, '50
66
Elizabeth his wife
66
Mary Wilson
Oct. 18, '45
Aug. 31 Apr. 30
Elizabeth King
James Kerr
Elizabeth Kerr
Sept., 1844
James McCaslin
ex.
Elizabeth his wife
Cornelius Hutton
cer.
Oct. 13, '51
Dec 29 1834 Feb. 25 66
Mary C. King
ex.
April 11, '37
Mar. 28
Mrs. Elizabeth Reese cer. Mrs. Mary Decker 66 John C. King ex.
May 16, '35 April 26,'44
Margaret Bergen Alexander Adams
66
cer.
-
cer. 66
Nov. 7, '39
Elizabeth Shellady
Oct. 22, '33
Mary Bergen
John Young
ex.
66
Jane B. Howsly
cer.
ex. cer. Apr. 11, '73 Mar. 15, '44
Mrs. Ann W. Monfort cer.
237
OF FRANKLIN, INDIANA.
DATE.
NAMES.
How Ad- mitt'd
DIED.
DISMISSED.
Mar. 28
Jane Adams
cer.
April 9, '41 1838
66
James D. Shellady
Margaret Mckinney
ex.
1851 Nov. 10, '37
66
Edward Crow
cer.
66
Mary A. his wife Sallie Hendricks
ex.
66
June 19, '50 Mar. 15, '39
66
Elizabeth Adams
Mar. 31
66
Abdallah Thompson Sam. Watson Shellady
April 18,'39
Clelland Adams
66
Rachel Bergen
cer.
May 31, '44
66
Zebulon Wallace 66
1835 Apr. 25
George Adams his wife
ex. 66
April 24, '51
Elisha Thompson
cer. Oct. 13, '42
Hannah his wife
August, '42
66
Emily Thompson Zerelda Thompson Eli N. H. Adams John A. Magill Mary H. his wife
ex cer.
Mar. 8, '37
Mrs. Nancy Yetrick Mrs. Marg. Howlett John Sharp
Aug. 8, '36
66
Temperance his wife Harvey Sloan
Oct. 13, "74
1836
Apr. 13 Apr. 29
Jane Eckles
Jane Allen Garrett Ditmars
ex. cer. 66
Oct. 4, '45
April 7, '38
Nov. 1
Thomas Alexander
Mary his wife
Mar. 13, '41
June 21, '45
Apr. 26 Oct. 30
Hervey McCaslin
66
Mar. 30
Lydia Adams
Sally Adams
Marian Israel
Mrs. Sarah Banta
66
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DATE.
NAMES.
How Ad- mitt'd
DIED.
DISMISSED.
Apr. 29
Sarah his wife
Oct. 29
Dr. Saml. Ritchey
1837
Mar. 27
Tunis Vannuys
Mar. 7, '47
Catharine his wife
66
Nov. 3, '44
66
Charity Vannuys
April 11,'39
66
John Vannuys
66
John Henderson
66
Oct. 1, '48 April 8, '50 66
Sep. 2
David V. Demaree
ex. cer. ex.
Aug 29,'40 1874
Feb. 27, '41
Sep. 3
Anderson Wallace
66
Mrs Mary Reid
cer. ex.
June 3, '39
Sep. 4
Elizabeth Smiley
Mar. 19, '55
Elizabeth Thompson
Feb. 27, '41
Dec. 3
Sarah D. allison
cer.
Aug. 8, '50 .
1838
Allen McCaslin
ex.
66
Jan. 7
John Henderson
66
Nov. 30, '45 Oct., 1856
Apr. 7
Mary Sturgeon
cer.
April 17, '42
Apr. 8
Madison Kelly
cer.
66
66
Eliza his wife Jane Patterson
ex.
Oct. 22, '43
66
Sophia Vestal (col'ed)
66
May 6
Samuel C. Graham
cer.
66
Elizabeth his wife
July 1
Robert Jeffry
Sept., 1850
66
Harriet his wife
66
Sept. 27,'43
July 21
Elizabeth Young
66
Oct. 13
Rebecca Adams
ex.
1839
Jan. 19
Nathaniel Peppard
cer
Sarah his wife
66
66
Isabella his wife
Mrs. Mild'd McCaslin
William McCaslin
Jacob Young
Dec. 17, '42
John Henderson his wife
66
Jan 6
Abraham Bergen
Liza Dawson(color'd)
ex.
April 7, '38 April 11,'37
239
OF FRANKLIN, INDIANA.
DATE.
NAMES.
How Ad- mitt'd
DIED.
DISMISSED.
Jan. 19
Mary A. McCaslin
ex. 66
66
William Kelly
John Adams
66
Jan. 20
Harvey B. Shellady
60
Apr. 19
John Jackson Rebecca his wife
cer.
Dead Feb. 15, '41 Dead
Mar. 14, '68
Apr. 20 Mrs America Sloan
ex.
Apr 21 Zerelda Henderson
Oct. 8, '45
July 21 John Herriott
66 Elizabeth his wife
66
James Henderson
66
Oct. 8, '50 Oct 25, '43
July 22 George Bergen July 24 Jane Thompson Nancy A. Mckinney
66
Feb. 20, '44
66
S. Amanda Shellady
66
June 13, '47
July 26
Cynthia Ann Shaffer Mrs. Mary Murphy
Dead
66
66
66
Catharine Ross
June 4, '69 Dec., 1851 April 24, '51
July 28
Elizabeth Adams
66
Elizabeth Mckinney
66
April 13,'50 April 23,'60
66
Mary E. McCaslin
Sept. 26,'50
July 23, '53
66
Is ac P. Monfort
cer. ex.
Oct. 13, '51 July 27, '45
Aug. 12
Jan. 8, '44
Sep. 22
Stephen Dickerson
May 9, '40
Oct. 11
Hervey McCaslin, Jr. Mary Jane Graham
cer. ex. 66
Oct 13, '51 April 26,'45
1840
Aug. 15 Mary Ann Thompson
Sep. 13
Mrs. H. Mitchell
cer. 66
Nov. 14 |Mrs. Eliza Shellady
Jan. 8, '44
66
George F. McCaslin Cornelius D. Vannuys Alexander Wilson
66
July 27 .6 Jane Wallace
John McCaslin
Geo. Adams, Jr.
Elizabeth Herriott
Margaret McCaslin 16
240
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
DATE.
NAMES.
How Ad- mltt'd
DIED.
DISMISSED.
1841 Feb. 27 66
Mrs Marg. McCaslin Elizabeth Thompson
ex.
66
July 27, '45 April 23, '60
June 18 June 19
Dr. John H. Donnell Hannah Demott
cer. 66
Mrs. Mary Gibson
ex.
6.
Mary his wife
Oct. 1844 Aug. 29,'50
1842
Jan. 15
Mrs Alma Sickles
66
66
Saml. E. Barr
66
Catharine Hoover
66
66
April 13,'50
Jan. 16
Martha Adams
66
Jan. 8, '44
Feb 2
Elizabeth Aten Aaron Aten
ex.
Sept. 7, '56
Margaret his wife
66
Sept. 4, '42
66
Mary Ann Headly Adrian Aten
66
Jan. 2, '51
Feb. 5
Joanna Bergen
66
Oct. 13, '51
66
Catharine Vannuys
66
Jan. 21, '66
66
Martha Black
66
Emeline Vannuys
Sept 20,'45
Aug. 16,'45 Oct. 13, '51
66
John Logan
66
John Herriott
66
Feb. 6
Caroline Vannuys
66
Oct. 10, '44
66
John W. Getty
66
Jan. 4, '48
Feb. 9
William C. Wilson
66
July 10, '56
66
Duane Hicks
66
Mary Bergen
Oct., 1849
Feb. 13
T. H. Alexander
66
Sept. 4, '42
Feb. 16 |Lafayette W. Fletcher
66
66
Lawrence Monfort
66
April 13,'50
66
Easter McCaslin
66
S muel Lambertson
66
Feb. 22, '43 July, 1843 Feb. 19, '43
Jan. 17
cer.
James Fletcher
Robert Henderson
Thomas R Alexander
Harvey L Gibson
James H. L Vannuys
241
OF FRANKLIN, INDIANA.
DATE.
NAMES.
How Ad- mitt'd
DIED.
DISMISSED.
Feb. 16
Ellen Jane Thompson Emily Alexander
ex
Feb. 10, '51
66
Sept. 4, '42
John Thompson
Geo. H. Jeffry
Feb. 19
John H. Alexander
66
Sept. 4, '42
Hannah Aten
Mar. 18, '49
James F. Young
66
Oct., 1849
S A. E. Henderson
66
Aug. 26, '47
John Ritchey
66
Nancy McCord
cer.
April 6, '48 Oct. 25, '45
Sarah his wife
ex.
66
James Wilson
Dec. 3, '62
July 24
James R. Alexander
cer.
Sept. 4, 1842
66
Rebecca his wife
July 27, '45
Feb. 4
Mary Ann Allison James Ferguson Hester Ferguson
ex. cer.
Feb., 1851
Feb. 1, 1849 66
Apr. 8
Jabez B. Bright
ex.
April 14, '43
66
Dec. 18, '59
May 20 1844 Jan. 1
Albert Banta
cer.
Aug. 17, '45
Dismissed
Feb. 1
Mrs. S McCracken
66
Aug. 8, '50
May 10
Joseph Henderson Elizabeth Ellis Margaret Ann Ellis Hetty Thompson Wasson McCaslin
ex.
Dec. 18, '59
66
Jan. 30, '50
66
Oct. 26
W. McCalla Moreland cer. Aug. 25, '45
1845
Dec. 6
Mrs.Sarah Henderson
ex.
Aug. 8,1850
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May 20
John Prosser
Robt. McIlhany
Minerva Hicks
John McLean
Oct. 22 1843
Mary Eliza his wife Mrs. Martha Allis(Ellis?)
Feb. 3
Martha his wife
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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
DATE.
NAMES.
How 1 Ad- mitt'd
DIED.
DISMISSED.
1846 Apr. 4
Peter H. Banta
ex.
Mitchel Henderson John McCaslin John Kenton
66
Aug. 8,1850 June 4,1869 Feb. 10, '57
66
Martha his wife
66
1847
Jan. 23
Mrs. Rachel Gilcrees Allen McCaslin, Jr. Samuel Allison, Jr. Eliza J. Mckinney Dorothy J. Aten
66 66 66
1851 Dismissed Mar. 9, 1853
66
Margaret Ann Aten Amanda T. Hutton
1.
Oct. 13, '51
66
Leander D. Shellady Henry Goodman James Wilson
66 66 66
Mar. 19, '55
66
Wm D. McCaslin David A. McCaslin
Sept., 1856
Sept. 17, '54
Mar. 14
Robert Young
66
Oct., 1849
Mar. 21
Malcolm McLean Geo. Allison
66 66
April 13,'50
Mar. 26 Mary Ann McCaslin
Mar. 28
Mrs. Jane High
Aug. 28
Geo. Bergen
cer. 66
Aug. 19, '49 66
66
Margaret his wife
66
Nov. 28, '48
66
Mary Ray Monfort 66
Sept. 22, '50
1848
Mar. 5
Mrs. Mary Ann Saye Robert Overstreet
ex.
Sept. 11, '55
Oct. 10
Mrs. EMILY Mathews (Elsie?)
cer. 66
Aug. 11, '52
Dec. 24 1849 Feb. 10
Christiana Banta
66
June 24, '49
66
Mrs. Sarah Carson
66
Feb. 11
Moses Hines
1857
66
Sarah his wife
Apr. 9
John McClain
Dec. 1, 1852
66
Sept. 16, '54
ex.
Mar. 10 66 66
66
Feb. 10, '57
66
66
66
Jane Annesly
cer.
243
OF FRANKLIN, INDIANA.
DATE.
NAMES.
How Ad- mitt'd
DIED.
DISMISSED.
Dec. 30
Hampton Terrill
cer.
April, 1871 Dead
Sept. 17, '54
1850
Jan. 30
Mrs. M. J. McDermed
Apr. 13
Mrs. A. McCaslin
cer.
Oct. 13, '51
66
Mrs. C. McClain
Dec. 1, '52
Sarah J. Hutton
ex.
Oct. 13, '51
June 29
Mrs. Sarah A. Gibson 66
cer.
Jan. 13, '51
Sep. 22
Mrs. Rebecca Lowe
Jan. 9, 1855
Dec. 14
Mrs. S. McKee
66
Jan. 3, 1855
66
Miss S. M. Breckenridge Mrs. Paulina Logan
Oct. 10, '56
1851
Mar. 9
Mary Ann Hamilton
Mar. 24
Mrs. - Zeiglar
ex.
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