Oak Grove Baptist Church
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
John Ewing, Soldier, Civil War Letter
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3777
Overview
Letter of John Ewing, Corporal of the 16th Ohio Infantry, to his wife and children, written from the Kanawha Valley in the vicinity of Charleston, (West) Virginia (2 November 1862). Ewing writes that he is in good health and describes recent encounters with Confederate troops. He describes in detail his experience as a Confederate prisoner, including a time he saw a "Company" of Indians with the Confederates. He also remarks on the opinions, mood, and character of the Confederate soldiers he...
Dates:
1862
Oak Grove Baptist Church Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3096
Overview
Articles of faith, rules of decorum, meeting minutes, membership rolls, and a church history of a Taylor County church of the Regular Baptist denomination. The records reflect the problems and growth of a church which changed its name and location from Laurel Run to Oak Grove and part of whose records were lost in a fire. There is a record of this church belonging to the local Goshen Baptist Association whose most prominent member is the historic sister church, Forks of the Cheat Baptist.
Dates:
1853-1959
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- Churches -- Goshen Baptist Association 1
- Churches -- Laurel Run Baptist 1
- Churches -- Oak Grove Baptist 1
- Churches -- West Virginia -- Taylor County 1
- Civil War - Ohio 16th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - Union soldiers' letters. 1
- Civil War - Union soldiers. 1
- Civil War - soldier's letters. 1
- Civil War -- letters 1
- Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
- Civil War -- Charleston 1
- Civil War -- Kanawha Valley, W. Va. 1
- Civil War soldiers letters - Union. 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha River (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
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