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Excerpts from HISTORY OF THE BLUE RIVER BAPTIST ASSOCIATION, MISSOURI by Martin Rice. Inter-State Publishing Co. Kansas City, Missouri. 1890.
"... .the new Association was not formed until after the next meeting of the Fishing River Association, which was held at New Garden meetinghouse, in Ray County, ou the 22d of August, 1834, and following days... The Association proceeded to appoint James Savage, Jackson Tandy, Joseph White, Enoch Finch, and Richard Fristoe, with the Moderator and Clerk, a committee to arrange the business of the Association, against Monday, and requested Brethren Henry Hill, Wm. Thorp and James Williams to preach on Sunday ... It was also resolved among other things that each church should be entitled to four delegates in the Association, and no more [the messengers from the Pleasant Grove congregation being James Savage, his brother William Savage and William's sons Hiram William and William Bollin Savage]." (pg 4-5)
"... it will be seen that the Blue River Association dates its existence from the 11th of October, 1834, and commenced its career of Christian usefulness with 10 churches and 384 members or communicants.." (pg 6)
"...The ministering brethren belonging to Blue River Association, at the time of its organization, so far as we can find from the minutes, and so far as our recollection serves, were the following : Robert Fristoe, John Warder, Enoch Finch, Thomas Stayton. Moses A. Stayton, Gabriel Fitzhugh, Joseph White, John T. Ricketts, William Simpson, Joab Powell, Henry Avery, John Jackson, Hiram Savage, Wm. B. Savage, Vincent Snelling, and Jesse Butler, some of whom were licentiates, and all of whom have died, and gone to receive their reward, except Hiram Savage, who was still living in Texas a short time since [sic; Hiram may have died in 1879]; and of the 384 members then connected with the Association, we know of but one, an aged sister, the writer's mother, who is now a member of the Associational Union." (pg 8) |
