Free-Will Baptist members of Magnolia and Union formed a corporate body at Evansville

The evidence

• “Free- Will Baptist Ohurch. — On July 1, 1854, the members of the churches of this denomination resident at Magnolia and Union coalesced and formed a corporate body, with headquarters at Evansville, where they met and elected the following Trustees, viz. : Peter AUer, Jesse Aller and Argalus Ballard. In the same year, they erected their present church, a large frame building, with a seating capacity of 300, at a cost of $3,000.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/16-rock-county-ch10-villages.md, PDF p. 656 / book p. 660

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources

  

• “The present membership of the church is 150. The First Baptist : July 1, 1854, members of this demomination, of Magnolia and Union, formed a corporate body with headquarters at Evansville, where they met and elected trustees. In the same year they built a frame church and a few years later added a parsonage.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/31-smaller-cities-villages-towns.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 154 / book p. 662

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources · may repeat 1879-history-of-rock-county, so not counted as independent