Brick Reformed Church (Whitsett, NC)

Collection

Identifier: Church RG 297

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Brick Reformed Church collection consists of 2 boxes containing: - Bulletins - Cemetery Records: Tombstone Inscriptions - Church Records (original & transcription): Baptisms, 1767-1944; Confirmations, 1772-1898; Marriages, 1772-1941; Deaths, 1773-1937; Communicants, 1802-1945; Membership; Officers, 1927-1944; Pastoral Register, 1927-1942. Transcriptions & Indexes by D. I. Offman. Typed by Calvin Hinshaw & David Holt, 1959. Revised 1998 - Constitutions, 1859 - Financial Records, 1772, 1813, 1925-1929 - History: General; News Clippings - Photographs - Committees: Consistory Minutes, 1857-1912, 1935-1936

Dates

Creation: 1767 - 1944

Biographical / Historical

Brick Church was established between about 1745 and 1760 with the influx of German Americans from Pennsylvania. It was established as a union church (Reformed and Lutheran) and first called the Church on Beaver Creek, changing names to Clapp's or Klapp's Church, then to Brick Church. After meeting in a log school house for some time, the Reformed congregation, led by Rev. Samuel Suther, moved to a different school house and eventually built their own building. Pastors include: early years Christian Theus 1749-???? James Martin 1764-???? Richard Dupert 1770-1781 Samuel Suther 1786-1788 John Bithahn 1788-1800 Andrew Loretz (supply) 1801-1807 Henry Diefenbach 1813-1814 James R. Reily (supply) 1821-1825 John Rudy 1828-1840 John H. Crawford 1841-1893 George W. Welker 1893-1898 James D. Andrew 1898-1902 George A. Stauffer 1904-1904 William S. Clapp (supply) 1904-1905 Paul Barringer (supply) 1905-1906 M. L. Klopfenstein (supply) 1907-1907 C. Columbus Wagoner (supply) 1907-1911 Joshua L. Bowers 1912-1914 Dugan C. Cox 1916-1920 Albert Klinger 1920-1922 J. M. Luther Lyerly (supply) 1922-1923 William C. Shaw (supply) 1924-1924 William A. Groff (supply) 1925-1926 Hoy L. Fesperman (supply) 1926-1926 Harvey A. Fesperman (supply) 1926-1927 Harvey A. Welker (supply) 1927-1937 Charles E. Hiatt 1938-1941 Aubrey W. Hedrick 1942-1946 Sterling W. Whitener 1946-1949 Arthur R. Detwiler 1949-1950 Richard A. Cheek; John Lackey (student); Hoy L. Fesperman; John C. Peeler (supplies) 1950-1953 John C. Chatlos 1953-1955 John C. Peeler (stated supply) 1955-1956 Bobby R. Bonds (student); Wayne Fouts; John Settlemyre; Donald P. Lyerly; Jacob A. Palmer (supplies) 1956-1962 James C. Cress 1963-1965 Carroll E. Bartholomew 1965-1966 John G. Truitt (stated supply) 1967-1968 Dan l. Hulseapple 1969-1974 Joshua Levens 1975-1979 Bland Leebrick 1980-1982 Eric Disher 1984-1985 Carl Wallace (supply) 1986-1987 Dale Davis 1987-1989 Michael L. Wilburn 1990-1991 Linwood Hubbard (supply) 1991-2001 R. Charles Boyd 2001-2002 Wally Fonville (interim) 2003-2004 Emmett Floyd (interim) 2004-2005 James Rosser (interim) 2005-???? Jon Bailey