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[Identification of item], in the Elk Creek Primitive Baptist Church Records, #4357, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Alleghany County (N.C.)--Church history.
• Church records and registers--North Carolina.
• Elk Creek Primitive Baptist Church (Alleghany County, N.C.)
• Primitive Baptists (N.C.)
• Reeves, Enoch.

The Primitive Baptist church at Elk Creek is located near Sparta, Alleghany County, N.C. The church dates at least from 1839, the date of the earliest entry in these records. The church remained active as of 1983.

MICROFILM ONLY. One volume of minutes of monthly church meetings and lists of members and their status in the church, 1839-1890. The minutes include records of the business of church meetings and the names of preachers and other church officials. The volume also includes a lengthy obituary and the text of a hymn, circa 1874, concerning the Reverend Enoch Reeves, one of the first preachers of the Elk Creek Church. Three petitions, 1873 and 1877, from other congregations to the Elk Creek Church were inserted in the volume.