Carlisle United Methodist Church (Sullivan County - Carlisle, Indiana)   
MC 485                                                                                                                          



ARCHIVES OF DEPAUW UNIVERSITY
 
AND INDIANA UNITED METHODISM


Carlisle UMC

Size: 1.0 linear feet

Restrictions: None

Accession #: Unknown

Provenance: Unknown

Historical Sketch

The First United Methodist Church of Carlisle was founded in 1818 as First Methodist Episcopal Church. They met in a building that was also used as a local school and a place of worship for the Presbyterians. In 1871, the old church property was sold and new lots were purchased. In 1874, the new church was dedicated.

Collection Statement

The collection includes church bulletins; records survey forms; newspaper clippings; Mary C. Cooper Estate; Ulysses S. Cox Estate; church history; First UMC history; membership roll; church board minutes; committee members; Women=s Foreign Missionary Society: miscellaneous records and treasurer=s reports; 5 bound volumes of historical records.

MC 485

Church Bulletins 1940,1983,1984

Church Records Survey Forms

Newspaper Clippings

Mary C. Cooper Estate 1954-56

Ulysses S. Cox Estate 1954

History of the Carlisle Circuit 1933-1934

History of the First UMC 1818-1984

Illinois Conference, Wabash District 1829-1831

Full Membership Roll, Constituency and Preparatory

Membership Roll, Leadership Directory 1982

Full Membership Roll, Leadership Directory, Budget, Birthdays and Anniversaries 1983

Minutes of Church Board (incomplete) 1945-56

Church

Committee Members 1955-56

Superintendent of Vincennes District 1867-1958

Historical footnotes for the minutes 1955

Women's Foreign Missionary Society-Miscellaneous

Women's Foreign Missionary Society--Treasurer's Report 1903-1908

Historical Record of the Carlisle UMC, including partial records of classes, probationers, members in full

    connections, marriages, baptisms. One volume 1866-1897

Historical Record of the Carlisle UMC, including records of classes, probationers, members, statistics,

    marriages and baptisms. One volume 1873-1887

Historical Record of the Carlisle UMC, including records of probationers, classes, members in full connection,

    marriages and baptisms. One volume 1887-1897

Historical Record of the Carlisle UMC, including board members, statistics, probationers, members in full

    connection, marriages, and baptisms. One volume 1879-1908

Historical record of the Carlisle UMC, including yearly report of 1908, records of probationers, members

    in full connection, marriages and baptisms.

One volume 1908-1920