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Brushy Fork Baptist Church

Shelby Township, Jefferson County and Pleasant Township, Switzerland County

The church was founded in 1818 with the founding Pastor, Stephen Moore.  The first church was located in 1825 on Stephen Ellis’s land on the border of Jefferson and Switzerland Counties.  In 1845 they had a building at the site of the current graveyard in Jefferson County.  They sold it in 1865 and moved to an 1866 brick building in Switzerland County, I mile west of Pleasant on the Switzerland-Jefferson County line, south of SR 250.  (Information from Churches and Church Records in Jefferson County, Indiana, compiled by Jackie Richards in 2006, Jefferson County Public Library)

The following information can be found on microfilm 126 (and 128) located in the Jefferson County Public Library.  The information covers the years from 1818 through 1949.

The microfilms were transcribed onto note cards in the past and then later typed in this digital format, from the note cards.  Transcription from the original microfilm may have had errors.

Abbreviations

  • Mem    = Member

  • J.          = Joined

  • Conf.   = Confirmed

  • Exp.     = Expelled?

  • b.         = Born

  • Rest.    = Restored

  • Bapt.   = Baptised

  • Ment.   = Mentioned

  • Letter  = Received Letter

  • Dism.   = Dismissal letter

  • Recd    = Received Experience

  • d.         = Died

  • Rel.      = Received Relation

  • Rest.    = Restored