Search billions of records on Ancestry.com

  
Johnson County Illinois
Gilead Church
Membership list

Submitted by Rick Girtman May 3, 2002
Source: Microfilm copy of Original Church minutes Book
This is a list of members of the Gilead Church in Johnson County, Illinois
This list includes members admitted from 1842 to 1853.
Later members will be added as time permits.

Gilead Church was Organized on Saturday 27th of Nov. 1842 by Rev. James Alexander with the following members.

William Simpson -Elder
William Barnwell -Elder
Willis Simpson -Elder

Lay members:
James Hays
Joseph L. Thomas
John Simmons
Elizabeth Hays
Eliza Hays
Nancy Barnwell
Elizabeth Stallcup
Dilliah Nichols
Cely Matthews
Caroline Matthews

Register of Communicants

Note: These are in the original order they were listed in the minutes book.
Later entries have no date listed as admission date. The entries appear to be in chronological order though. So, the names listed between 1851 and 1853 were probably admitted between those years.
 

Name                      Date admitted
J. L. Thomas Nov. 1842
Nancy Barnwell Nov. 1842
James Hays Nov 1842
John Simmons Nov 1842
Elizabeth Hays Nov 1842
Eliza Hays Nov 1842
Elizabeth Stallcup Nov 1842
Delliah Nichols Nov 1842
Cely Matthews Nov 1842
Caroline Matthews Nov 1842
Nancy May Oct 1844
May Thomas Oct 1844
Martha Ann Hays June 1843
James Mckee Oct 1844
Lewis Simpson Oct 1844
William L. Simpson Dec 1845
John Saunders Dec 1845
Easter Rushen July 1844
Maria Brill Feb 1848
William May Aug 1848
Nancy A. Barnwell June 1850
Catharine Breeding July 1850
Judeth Gorden Aug 1850
James Tuggle Aug 1850
Elizabeth Tuggle Aug 1850
Louiza Tuggle Sept 1850
Wm. Brill Sept 1850
John C. Barnwell Sept 1850
Adeline Roberts Sept 1850
Martha Simpson Sept 1850
Charlotte Simpson Sept 1850
Matilda Veach Sept 1850
Mary Simpson Sept 1850
Mary May Sept 1850
Jane Breeding Nov 1850
Eroy C. Ford May 1851
Margaret Ford May 1851
Benjamin D. Lewis May 1851
Elizabeth Mount May 1851
Sarah J. Mount May 1851
Tempa? Mount May 1851
Reubin W. Laughlin May 1851
Nancy Laughlin May 1851
James R. Barnwell May 1851
J. *. Thomas July 1851
George May July 1851
A. J. May Aug 1851
Polly Sanders Aug 1851
Alminia Thomas
Richard Laughlin
Nancy Harris
Nancy E. Waters
Nancy M. Barnwell
Mary Ann Trigg May 1853
Juliet Simpson
Polly Simpson
Abigiah Veach
Polly Ann Rose
Elizabeth Chapman
Nancy Russell
Robert H. Barnwell
William Warren
Mary Jane Russell
William Harris
Green B. Veach
Martha Veach
B. F. Veach
Franklin Eubanks
Polly Eubanks
Samuel McMahan
Elizabeth McMahan Seign.
Nancy McMahan
Polly McMahan
Elizabeth McMahan Jun.


 Return to Johnson County Illinois History & Genealogy

This page generously

Hosted By RootsWeb

Background Graphic by
 Barbara's Bordered Backgrounds