====== Sand Run Baptist Church (BE 356) ====== Part of the [[Francisville]] community near [[Hebron]], the Sand Run Baptist Church has had a long history within the [[Boone County|county]]. The [[churches|church]] and it's adjoining [[Sand Run Baptist Church Cemetery|cemetery]] are still active today. Sand Run Baptist Church Excerpt from the //History of Sand Run Baptist Church, Boone County, Kentucky// by [[Robert E. Kirtley]], [[1876]]: "Sand Run Church was constituted on the 20th of March, [[1819]], with seventy-eight members, fifty-five white and twenty-three [[african-americans|colored]]. Among the prominent members in the organization were Chichester Matthews, and William Montague, ordained ministers; [[Lewis Webb]], the former clerk of [[Bullittsburg Baptist Church|Bullittsburg]]; [[Cave Johnson]], Jeremiah Kirtley, Cave Montague, William N. McCoy, Beverly R. Ward, Benjamin Mitchell, Andrew Brockman, William Gaines, Benjamin Dulaney, Elijah W. Dulaney and others. "During the early history of this young church, her discipline both formative and corrective, was most excellent. She sought out and brought into active exercise the gifts of her members. Men of business capacity were appointed to attend to business. Men that could sing were called on to exercise their gifts. Men that could talk to edification and comfort were encouraged in that work." ===== More Information ===== * [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/history/search/results?qu=sand+run&te=|Sand Run Baptist Church, 1810-1972]] * //[[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/26384/0|Sand Run Baptist Church Minutes, 1830]]//. * Whitaker, William. //North Bend Association of Baptists Circular Letter, 1830//. [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/34892/0|transcript]] and [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/34892/1|original page scans]] ==== Related websites ==== * Cemetery information at [[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2163401&CScn=sand+run&CScntry=4&CSst=19&CScnty=996&|FindAGrave.com]] ===== Related Topics ===== * [[Baptist]] churches * [[Churches]] of Boone County * [[Historic buildings]] * [[North Bend Association of Baptists]]