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From: Shirley Brewer <>
Subject: Re: [ILFAYETT-L] Bear Creek Baptist Church/ Primitive Bap. Curcuit
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:35:15 -0800
References: <20010118.155333.-365997.6.bwebb9@juno.com>


Robert L Webb wrote:
>
> Shirley, I think you and I may have communicated before, about Elder John
> Lawler (1818-1889), but it has been quite a while ago (maybe a few
> years). I don't want to ignore your inquiry, as it is important to me,
> too. I think your reference to a "Circuit" probably means an
> "Association," as that is what they were called. The Kaskaskia Regular
> Baptist Association is the one which Bear Creek Church and most of the
> other PBC's in Fayette county were part of. I have a file of minutes of
> the Kaskaskia Association, the oldest being 1836 (it was organized in
> 1830 or 1831). I have tried to glean a little of the history of the
> churches into a chaper on Fayette county, as well as other counties
> throughout Illinois, which I am compiling into book form. Also have a
> database of names of members which I can find.
> I will stop here and see if I am on the right track to help, or not.
> Elder Robert Webb
> Primitive Baptist Library
> Carthage, Illinois
>
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 12:46:22 -0800 Shirley Brewer <>
> writes:
> > Hi List :
> > Would any one have an knowledge of the Primitive Baptist Circuit. I
> > presume that there was more than one church. Bear Creek Baptist
> > CHurch
> > is the one I am interested in Rev Lawler was the rev and he lived in
> > Sharon Twp. Would any one know about this?
> > Shirley Brewer
> >
>
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Thank you very much . I am looking for my George Brewer connections he
had a brother which we no nothing about .He went to this church the last
5 years of his life in the 1929-30's . Can you check for Brewers them.
Thank you very much
Shirley

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