Members of the Evergreen Baptist Church, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana Submitted by: Jane Sanford Keppler, Source: DeSoto Parish - LAGenWeb ************************************************ Submitted to the LAGenWeb Archives ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** TIPS FOR SEARCHING RECORDS ON THE INTERNET Netscape & Ms Explorer users: If searching for a particular surname, locality or date while going through the records in the archives or anywhere....try these few steps: 1. Go to the top of the report you are searching. 2. Click on EDIT at the top of your screen. 3. Next click on FIND in the edit menu. 4. When the square pops up, enter what you are looking for in the FIND WHAT ___________blank. 5. Click on DIRECTION __DOWN. 6. And last click on FIND NEXT and continue to click on FIND NEXT until you reach the end of the report. This should highlight the item that you indicated in "find what" every place it appears in the report. You must continue to click on FIND NEXT till you reach the end of the report to see all of the locations of the item indicated. *************** Evergreen Baptist Church Location: Kinston, DeSoto Parish, LA. Organized in 1852. The earliest membership list is dated 1858. Names appearing in the minutes during the first year of church minutes. A. Q. RUTHERFORD ___ DODSON R. H. SCOTT and wife Cornelia William Bonieau TAYLOR Thomas JEFFERSON William R. BURKE and wife Sarah Calvin J. KIRVEN and wife Harriet E. KIRVEN S. D. DEWITT James SCOTT Martha E. S. FRIERSON Charles belonging to Dr. G. P. FRIERSON Brother ___ BACKUS Robert W. RUTHVAN and wife Margaret M. RUTHVAN Elizabeth S. PRIERSON Brother L. ALISON Elden O. DODSON Brother J. H. TALBERD Jefferson owned by Bro. A. GANDY Amanda, Edward, Sam, and Edward owned by Major Tomkies Mary owned by H. H. SCOTT Agnes daughter of James SCOTT Miss Margaret BEST Mr. William BEST Mr. James W. PHILIPS Molly the servant of Brother L. ALISON M. D. KATY the property of Bro. Samuel D. DEWITT Phil the property of Sister Lucinda SCOTT George, Benjamin, Bob, and York the property of Maj. TOMKIES Brother & Sister GANDY Brother J. B. BACKUS Mr. TULLY Susannah and Henry property of Mr. Robert B. FRIERSON Brother L. ALISON Riley and Hardy (colored) R. W. RUTHVAN -death-Nov. 1853 minutes Claiborne property of R.M. SCOTT Virgil property of Thomas JEFFERSON Barbary AUSTIN Charlotte property of George W. ELDREDGE Sam property of Samuel D. DEWITT Paul property of George M. ELDRIDGE