Melville Methodist Church (Melville, La.) records
Scope and Contents
The Melville Methodist Church (Melville, La.) records consist of two church registers and a Sunday School record book. The older register contains the following sections: pastors (1893-1917), marriages (1889-1922), infant baptisms (1890-1926), and members (1886-1921). The second register contains the following sections: pastors (1926-1927), marriages (1927), baptisms (1927-1928), and members (1923-1925). The Sunday School record book contains the following sections: class rolls (1922), financial records (1923-1948), and meeting minutes (1922-1923).
Dates
- 1886 - 1948
Creator
- Melville Methodist Church (Melville, La.) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Physical rights are retained by the Centenary College of Louisiana Archives and Special Collections. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.
Biographical / Historical
Melville Methodist Episcopal Church South (Melville, La.) was organized in 1886. In 1887, the congregation purchased an abandoned Baptist church building and moved it to Church Street. In 1894, this building was destroyed in a storm and rebuilt. In 1949, the congregation sold their church building and property to construct a new church located at the intersection of First and Payton Streets.
Extent
3 Volumes
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Organized by subject, then chronologically.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Collection donated by Doris B. Johnson in 1983.
Creator
- Melville Methodist Church (Melville, La.) (Organization)
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Melville Methodist Church (Melville, La.) records
- Author
- Created by Carolyn Garison in 1983, updated by Olivia Brignac and Chris Brown in 2017.
- Date
- 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Centenary College of Louisiana Archives and Special Collections Repository