Robeson County NcArchives Church Records.....Bethesda United Methodist Church
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BETHESDA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH                                                    
                                                                                    
                                                               
Organized circa 1811

This church is certainly one of the older Methodist churches which is located in 
southern Robeson County, North Carolina.  The present building, built in 1928, 
has a cornerstone with date of organization listed as 1711.  This date of 
organization on the cornerstone is perhaps an error of the hands of engraver, as 
there were no settlement of people of organized Christianity in this area of the 
state here prior to the decade of the l750s.  From looking at Methodist records 
[published and unpublished] as well as county and other records, the church was 
most likely organized about the year 1811, or very soon thereafter.  No earlier 
records concerning the congregation of church can be found previous to the year 
1865.  Most of the fragments of the early records concerning Bethesda comes from 
Minister's Journals, Methodist Conference and Circuit records,  the Christian 
Advocate, as well as other early newspapers from southeastern North Carolina.  
From this early source we also glean deaths which occurred within the 
congregation between the years of 1870-1878.  These deaths were as now follows: 
BETHESDA METHODIST CHURCH DEATHS 1870-1878

NAMES OF MEMBERS                    DEATH DATES

CAROLINE JONES                      JUL 21 1870

NICHOLAS T. SEALY                   APR 25 1874

MARY C. SEELY                       JAN    1875

ALICE M. BARFIELD                   JUL 03 1875

JOHN JENKINS                               1876

HENRIETTA F. FLOYD                         1876


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