Religion

Scope and Contents This collection includes "Events Since the Remodeling and Rededication of Hibernia Church in 1960: Tragedy and Sorrow or a Blessing in Disquise?", an essay written by church historian Mrs. Buford E. (Effie Pearl) Bower in September 1966. The typewritten document details the response of the church and community following the 1965 lightning stike that damaged the more than 100 year old church. The essay includes a 1966 black-and-white photograph of the newly built church building; a newspaper...

Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, receipts, financial documents, essays, histories, research notes, newspaper clippings, photographs, postcards, pamphlets, periodicals, and other papers and ephemera from the Roscoe R. Leak and the Buzzard, Leach, and Leak families (also spelled Leake) ranging from 1842 to 1958 and undated, regarding family, business affairs, and Indiana history, specifically genealogy, history in Hendricks and Clark counties and church history, including the Disciples of...

Scope and Contents This collection includes a typewritten copy of "Charter Members of the Salem Christian Church in 1842," a six-page composition by Lennie Martin Berkey consisting of biographical sketches of the first 26 members of the church (circa 1942). The collection also includes a typewritten copy of "A Great Church is Born," a 1942 script for a play containing a prologue that recounts the establishment of the Disciples of Christ and the Christian church taken from a program prepared by Mrs. Cecil...