Four membership roll books,1887-2007; administrative board/official board meeting minutes, 1933-35, 1965-2007; baptismal records; marriage records; blueprints; guest books; history; memorials; photographs; United Methodist Women/Women’s Society Christian Service records. Bellaire UMC was located at 4906 Crittenden Avenue in Indianapolis. The church closed in June 2007. [M008.001]

Record book, 1850-76, including quarterly conference meetings, lists of members and financial records. The Allisonville circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church was set up in 1850, "formed of appointments taken from Noblesville and Greenfield Circuits and Indianapolis East Mission." The Circuit met quarterly. It paid one or two ministers to serve several congregations, and at one time was maintaining as many as seven Sunday school classes. The records usually mention congregations at Allisonville, Millersville, and Castleton, along with locations less easily identified: Bethel, Concord, Hopewell, Key Point, Kratzers, Perseverance, Washington, and Zion Chapel. [M008.002]

Notebook of George M. Beswick, ca.1835; diary of Mrs. George Beswick, 1854-95; 1869 deacon certificate and 1871 elder certificate of Samuel Cox Miller; 1952-53 newspaper clippings of Paw Paw Methodist Church; 1938 newspaper clipping of Chili Methodist Church; Fiftieth Anniversary (1837-1887) program of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Wabash, Indiana; listing of Swantner family baptisms, 1924-27; funeral notice of Hon. Robert Miller, 1884; letter to Lura Susie Long from her Aunt Laura Beswick McKaig (DPU 1871), May 25, 1913.  George M. Beswick was a minister in the Indiana Conference, 1831-53, and father of Laura Beswick McKaig, one of the first four women to graduate from Indiana Asbury (now DePauw) University. [M008.007]

Trinity (Seymour) UMC

Directories 1973-2006; bulletins and programs; charters; charge conference reports 1997-2002, 2004; photographs and newspaper clippings; Sunday school records. [M008.011]

Sugar Grove (Greenfield) UMC

Administrative board minutes, 1964-2004; bulletins and flyers; recognition certificates; clippings; dedication records; directories; history; homecoming celebrations;  Marsh Fun Fest; membership and baptisms; mother-daughter banquet records; officer listings 1971-2005; Sunday school record books 1918-2000; New Disciples Class 1991-92; warranty deeds and mortgage records; guest book, 1958-81; financial record1918-36; Warrington circuit membership record book, ca. 1895. [M008.019]

Baker Chapel (DeGonia Springs) UMC

Board meeting minutes 1963-2002; certificates of recognition; charge conference reports; history; membership rolls; membership transfer records; officers/leadership listings, 1970-2005; photographs; pictorial directories; trustees minutes, 1989-1995; UMW/WSCS/Ladies Aid records, 1902-1995; Sunday school records, 1928-1999. The Baker Chapel church, located in the community of DeGonia Springs, was destroyed by a tornado on November 6, 2005. The congregation of the church remained steadfast during this loss and continued to meet at various locations as a new church building was constructed. These records survived the disaster. [M008.021]