My Minnick folder has yielded a photocopy of a Certificate of Church Membership. I don’t believe this record can be found in an online collection.
Certificate of Church Membership
This Certifies
that Emaline Minnick
having in the presence of God and the public congregtion renewed the
solemn promise con1tained in her baptismal covenant, and the beliefs
in the doctrines of the Holy Scriptures as set forth in the Articles of
our Church and expresed her willingness to be governed by its Discipline has this
day been duly received into full connection with the
Methodist Episcopal Church at Kewanee Station
Illinois according to the form of Discipline
Central Illinois Conference
Benj Applepee, Pastor
[Filed Kewanee] July 14 18[6]7
- Crawford Family Papers; privately held by Marcia Philbrick, Seneca, Kansas, 2016. Emaline Minnick’s Certificate of church membership. Photocopy obtained from Doris Ryan of Yates Center, Kansas. ↩︎
While I failed to locate this record in any database of church memberships, I was able to locate information about the pastor. THe 12 Mar 1897 issue of the Kewanee Daily Courier contained a death notice for Rev. B. Applebee.
Rev. B. Applebee, a former Methodist minister of this place, but now of Red Oak, Iowa, died while at supper one day last week, of neuralgia of the heart. He was pastor in Kewanee during the 60’s and was a very successful revivalist. (Kewanee Daily Courier, 12 Mar 1897, page 3)
