Rock Springs Primitive Baptist Church and cemetery
are located in Southeast Township (Sec. 11, T.1S,R1E). This is
approximately 1 1/2 miles east of Valeene, Indiana. The church was
constituted in 1826 in Stampers Creek Township at the home of Charles
Vandeveer. A house for worship was built in 1841 at the
described location at a cost of $500. First members of the church were:
John, Joel, Aaron, Charles, and George
Vandeveer with their wives; _____ Phillips
and wife, Abraham Pierson and wife, Cole
Pierson, Nancy Pierson, William
Pierson, John Pierson, Abraham
Noblitt, Woodson Noblitt, Amelia
Noblitt, and William Noblitt. The first
minister was Aaron Vandever and since him have been
Charles Vandeveer, Jonathan Jones, William Robertson, T. N.
Robertson, and Samuel McMahan(this up to
about 1880). Elder T. N. Robertson held an
interesting revival in 1876, and succeeded in gaining about a dozen
converts to the church. The cemetery has several old and unmarked
graves. Nearly all those buried here are inter-related. Most of the
inscriptions here were copied by unknown parties in 1946. Some updating
has occurred, however, more needs to be done to bring it up to the
current date (1996).
The following is a transcript of
data recorded by the Lost River Chapter of the DAR in the 1940's and
remains
their property. This
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