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Religion -- Arkansas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:

James Warthen Workman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 538
Scope and Content Note Pastoral and personal papers of Dr. Workman (1897-1984).Materials include course notebooks from Yale University; course schedules; daily vest-pocket notebooks; notebooks for student pastoral work and other purposes; correspondence; family and personal papers; sermon notes; articles concerning religion, including those from the Arkansas Gazette; teaching outlines; church papers; Lone Star Steel Company papers and publications; Veterans Administration...
Dates: 1891-1984
Found in: Special Collections Department / James Warthen Workman Papers

Kingston Presbyterian Church Documents

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1498
Scope and Content Note The Kingston Presbyterian Church Documents consists of letters, and 123 photocopied glass slides, dated from 1921 - 1925. Papers concerning the Kingston Church were found at the First United Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas February 15, 2003. The centerpiece of the collection is an unsigned letter presumably penned by Reverend Elmer J. Bouher circa 1923 petitioning a "sister" church in Rochester, New York for...
Dates: 1921 - 1925
Found in: Special Collections Department / Kingston Presbyterian Church Documents

Magnet Cove Missionary Baptist Church History Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MC 10
Scope and Content Note

History of the Magnet Cove Missionary Baptist Church, 1868-1968, compiled from the Church records by Clara A. Golden.

Dates: circa 1968
Found in: Special Collections Department / Magnet Cove Missionary Baptist Church History Manuscript

Kurt W. Marquardt Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 540
Scope and Content Note Correspondence, clippings, notes, photographs, and other materials pertaining to the ministry of the Reverend Kurt W. Marquardt. The collection consists mainly of sermon and Bible lesson notes, articles, and 35 mm slides pertaining to or documenting the religious work of the Reverend Kurt W. Marquardt. Sermon and Bible lesson notes and outlines were originally grouped by themes in envelopes and folders. Envelopes and folders have been removed, but the order has been maintained...
Dates: 1930s to 1980s
Found in: Special Collections Department / Kurt W. Marquardt Papers

Methodist Church Center Point Circuit Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 989
Scope and Content Note Records pertaining to the Center Point Circuit, Washington District, Ouachita Conference, of the Arkansas Methodist Church, consisting of: minutes of the Second Quarterly Meeting, Center Point, March 31, 1866; minutes of the Third Quarterly Meeting, Piney Grove, 1866; list of names taken from the Baptisms, 1866?; typescript of "History of Center Point Circuit" by W.D. Lee, n.d.; article by W.D. Lee, "Old Center Point Camp Ground Has Been Used as Place of Worship for a Hundred...
Dates: 1866-1937
Found in: Special Collections Department / Methodist Church Center Point Circuit Records

Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington District, Greenville Circuit Report

 Collection
Identifier: MC 627
Scope and Content Note

Handwritten report of Fourth Quarterly Meeting Conference, Mt. Zion, 9 September 1844, signed by Andrew Hunter. Includes lists of members present, votes on character of official members, money collected, and resolution concerning a separate organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church in states with legalized slavery.

Dates: 1844
Found in: Special Collections Department / Methodist Episcopal Church, Washington District, Greenville Circuit Report

Northwest Arkansas Churches of Christ Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MC 802
Scope and Content Note

The material was collected by Paul Haynie in the course of his research on the history of the Churches of Christ in Arkansas. Included are photocopies of church records; programs, directories, and other church publications; histories of the churches compiled by members; genealogies; and photographs.

Dates: 1879-1988
Found in: Special Collections Department / Northwest Arkansas Churches of Christ Materials

Edward Parker Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1887
Scope and Content Note

The Edward Parker Correspondence contains correspondence between Edward; his father, Nathan B. Parker; his mother, Elizabeth Langford Parker; his brother, Henry D. Parker; his first wife, Annie Reynolds Parker; and his daughter, Mary Elizabeth Reid. The letters within the collection reveal general information about the Parker family, their personal experiences during the Civil War, their involvement with Shakerism, and Edward’s duties as a riverboat clerk.

Dates: 1817-1908
Found in: Special Collections Department / Edward Parker Correspondence

Providence Baptist Church Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1789
Scope and Content Note

Materials in the collection includes correspondence, board meeting minutes, membership lists, financial records, and photographs.

Dates: 1891-2008
Found in: Special Collections Department / Providence Baptist Church Records

Halsey Prudden Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1903
Scope and Content Note

The Halsey Prudden Correspondence contains biographical information about the Prudden family, and correspondence discussing Arkansas frontier life, and religion. Additional the collection contains two sets of transcribed correspondence; one created by Emma Carmen, Prudden's niece and one provided by Jane Bradford, Prudden's great-great niece.

Dates: 1819-1988
Found in: Special Collections Department / Halsey Prudden Correspondence

Nathaniel Madison Ragland Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS R12
Scope and Content Note Correspondence, sermons, clippings, biographical sketch, minutes of meetings, broadsides, notebook, ledger, and other material pertaining to the ministry of, and to the civic, educational, religious, ecclesiastical, and other interests and activities of the Reverend Nathaniel M. Ragland, pastor of First Christian Church of Fayetteville, Arkansas from 1885 to 1908, to the history of that congregation, to marriages and deaths among its membership, to the history of Arkansas College in...
Dates: 1860-1946
Found in: Special Collections Department / Nathaniel Madison Ragland Papers

Records of the First Presbyterian Church, Bentonville, Arkansas

 Collection
Identifier: MC 950
Scope and Content Note

The records contain a printed history of the church, six volumes of church minutes and Presbyterian Session records, and four groups of loose-leaf minutes. The history of the church was created as a memento for Homecoming Sunday, May 7, 1989. The church met in celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the first General Assembly of Presbyterians in the United States. Volumes 1-5 are also available on 1 reel of microfilm.

Dates: 1870-1989
Found in: Special Collections Department / Records of the First Presbyterian Church, Bentonville, Arkansas

South by Southwest Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 971
Scope and Content Note Letters, diaries, ledgers, legal documents, and printed items dealing with a wide variety of Arkansas subjects and people. In addition, fragile ledgers may be viewed on 2 reels of microfilm. Included are nine letters, written from 1866 to 1876 from Fort Smith (Sebastian County), Fayetteville (Washington County), Little Rock (Pulaski County), and Washington, D.C., by James E. Trott, George William Sellers, Charles Whiting Walker, Elias C. Boudinot, Margaret Waterson, James M....
Dates: 1828-1992
Found in: Special Collections Department / South by Southwest Collection

Florence Cypert Spore Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 799
Scope and Content Note Letters, papers, scrapbooks, and photographs pertaining to the Seat-Cypert-Spore families of Searcy, Arkansas. Series one holds papers pertaining to the Seat family, including an autobiographical sketch of Captain Benton Bell Seat and diaries kept by him after he moved to Arkansas in 1903. Series two holds papers dealing with the Cypert family, from Jesse Newton Cypert to the five children of Judge Eugene Cypert. Materials concerning the Hardy-Haymond-Crow families, relatives of...
Dates: 1854-1976
Found in: Special Collections Department / Florence Cypert Spore Papers

St. Agnes Episcopal Church (Morrilton, Arkansas) Record Book

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1201
Scope and Content Note

Record book listing births, deaths, marriages, and communicants.

Dates: 1885-1911
Found in: Special Collections Department / St. Agnes Episcopal Church (Morrilton, Arkansas) Record Book

St. Paul's Episcopal Church Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1079
Scope and Content Note The records contain three historical files pertaining to the origins and the development of St. Paul's Church. These documents range from handwritten notes, manuscripts, typewritten passages, and correspondence to published material. The collection further contains formal correspondence, an organizational chart, two ledgers with the minutes of the meetings (ca 1876-1960) and one file with the minutes for the period of 1968 to 1981; two Women's Guild secretary books containing the Guild's...
Dates: 1876-1982
Found in: Special Collections Department / St. Paul's Episcopal Church Records

St. Paul's Episcopal Church Records Addendum

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1079a
Scope and Content Note The first and second accessions of the collection overlap somewhat; the two parts should be used together. The second accession contains materials pertaining to church property: mortgage documents, abstract, bill of sale, title, insurance papers, warranty deeds. In addition are records of bills paid, cash received, accounts, pledges, and other financial records. Boxes 3 and 4 contain the records of the church vestry. Boxes 5, 6, and 7 document the activities and programs of the Womens...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1976-1985; 1848-1985
Found in: Special Collections Department / St. Paul's Episcopal Church Records Addendum

Glenn Steward Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 803
Scope and Content Note The papers include sermon notes and religious essays pertaining to topics such as instrumental music in worship, cigarette smoking, and salvation. The papers also include bulletins from the Thompson Street and Robinson Avenue Churches of Christ (Springdale, Arkansas) and other Arkansas Churches of Christ, Church of Christ membership directories from Springdale and Johnson (Washington County), a photograph of Harbart Hooker, and a photograph of Glenn and Beulah Steward. Researchers should...
Dates: 1920-1977
Found in: Special Collections Department / Glenn Steward Papers

Union Baptist Church Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1819
Scope and Content Note

Materials in this collection include minutes books.

Dates: 1834-2006
Found in: Special Collections Department / Union Baptist Church Records

Uniontown Christian Church Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 788
Scope and Content Note The papers were preserved by the Uniontown Christian Church as a chronicle of its activities from the inception of the church late in the nineteenth century to the present. These materials are a history both of the church itself and of the individual members of the community of Uniontown who were its members. Materials in the collection include: a small body of correspondence from Andrew Scott to the Churches of Christ in Illinois, from A. M. Baker to J. D. Hart, and from J. D....
Dates: 1891-1978
Found in: Special Collections Department / Uniontown Christian Church Records

Washington County Historical Society Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1368
Scope and Content Note The historical papers which comprise Series 1 were maintained to support historical and genealogical research at Headquarters House in Fayetteville, where the society has its offices and a historical museum. The original order of the files has been retained as far as possible, with some adjustments to provide easier access to the materials. There is great variation in the type and quantity of materials in these files, reflecting their existence in a continuing research and publishing...
Dates: circa 1833-1995
Found in: Special Collections Department / Washington County Historical Society Collection

West Fork (Arkansas) Regular Baptist Church Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 908
Scope and Content Note

The West Fork (Arkansas) Regular Baptist Church Records were collected in two accessions. The first accession consists of photocopies of a transcript of church records from 1830-1849 and a photocopy of an annual session of the Zion Church.

The second accession consists of a transcript of the West Fork Church's minutes from 1850.

Dates: 1830-1903
Found in: Special Collections Department / West Fork (Arkansas) Regular Baptist Church Records

White House Church of Christ Records

 Collection
Identifier: MC 459
Scope and Content Note

Records of the White House Church of Christ (originally named Union Church House) White River Township (Arnett), Washington County, Arkansas, 1867-1896. Haynie paper includes typescript of church records.

Dates: 1867-1896
Found in: Special Collections Department / White House Church of Christ Records

White River Presbyterian Church Minutes

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1730
Scope and Content Note

Records consist of handwritten minutes taken during meetings, lists the names of church members, elders, deacons and ministers, marriages, births, and baptisms within the White River Presbyterian Church congregation.

Dates: 1831 - 1868
Found in: Special Collections Department / White River Presbyterian Church Minutes

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