Cold Spring First Baptist Church Records
1794-1854
By Jean Young Houston
The "Mouth of the Licking Church" was constituted in 1794 at the home William DeCoursey. The original church building was erected on property owned by Major David Leitch and Association, about six miles from where Licking River empties into the Ohio River. The first minister, John Smith from Columbia, Ohio, was succeeded by Bethuel Riggs, a preacher active in this area for many years. By 1840 the total membership was 72. The church was called "Old Licking" from 1820 until it became the First Baptist Church old Spring in 1924. It is located at 3810 Alexandria Pike, Cold Spring.
The two old record books, kept at the church, are in very good condition. There are no church business records recorded until April 1841. Minutes begin in 1877 in the second record book, and an incomplete membership list included. In the small cemetery behind the church the earliest gravestone inscription is in the year 1816.
Records in this consolidated listing are derived from the following sources:
(a) Constituting members 1794
(b) Members admitted 1794-1854
(c) Gravestone inscriptions of persons born before 1854. Some death dates are
contained in the membership lists.
Baker, Charles, adm. by bapt. 1818; d. 26 Sept. 1868. (b) (c)
Baker, E B, circa 1840 (b)
Baker, Elizabeth Sr., possibly 1838. (b)
Baker, Ella, (Mother), b. 1854; d. 1930 (c)
Baker, Francis, adm by bapt. 1845 (b)
Baker, Henry, (Father), b. 1853; d. 1932 (c)
Baker, Margaret, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Baker, Martha, adm by bapt. 1820 (b)
Baker, William, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Bates, Mary, adm by bapt. 1844 (b)
Bates, Wiley, adm by bapt. 1844 (b)
Battle, John J., d. aged 74 yrs; husband of Lorena Reese Battle. U. S. Navy
Mispah. (c)
Beal, John, third pastor, 1807-1817 (b)
Beggs, Margaret, (Mother), d. 19 Feb. 1878, aged 74 yrs. (c)
Bett, Elizabeth, adm by bapt. 1842 (b)
Bett, Gabriel, adm by bapt. 1840 (b)
Bett, Horace, adm by bapt. 1840 (b)
Boggs, Caroline F., adm by bapt. 1845 (b)
Boke, Elizabeth, Jr., adm by bapt. 1824 (b)
Briggs, Walter, adm, by bapt. 1851 (b)
Brown, George W., b. 1839; d. 1908 (c)
Bruce, Ambrose, d. 11 Feb 1840, aged 26 yrs. (c)
Bruce, Margaret, b. 15 Jan 1790; d. 12 Apr 1869 (c)
Carson, America, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Clark, Mary, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Colwell, Sarah, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Cook, William, b. 2 Apr 1829; d. 28 Apr 1857 (c)
Coopper, Ann, adm by bapt. 1839; d. July 1843 (b)
Cooper, Baldwin, adm by bapt. 1839; d. July 1843 (b)
Cornelius, Elizabeth, adm by letter 1841 (b)
Crisminger, Elizabeth, adm by bapt. 1842 (b)
Croxen, Elizabeth, d. 1834(54?) (c)
Croxen, Marmaduke, son of John & Mary, d. 4 Dec. 1816 (c)
Croxen, Mary Jane, adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
Culberson, George, adm by bapt, 1854 (b)
Culberson, Robert, restored to membership 1854; d. 1855 (b)
Davrainville, Elizabeth J, d. 23 Dec. 1880, aged 37 yrs (c)
Davrainville, Mitchell F, b-16 Nov 1840; d-13 Oct 1906 Sgt. Co. H., 102nd Regt.
Pa. Inf. (c)
Dean, Hiram, adm by bapt. 1854; Co C, Ohio Inf. (no date) (b) (c)
Dean, Joseph, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Dean, Matilda, b. 1839; d. 1918 (c)
Dean, Thomas, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
DeCoursey, Elizabeth, adm, by letter 1837; d. 1844 (b)
DeCoursey, Margaret, adm by bapt. 1842 (b)
DeCoursey, Mariah, adm by bapt. 1839 (b)
DeCoursey, Martha, adm by letter 1841 (a) (b)
DeCoursey, Marthy, (a) Jr., adm by bapt. 1841 (b)
DeCoursey, William, Jr., adm by letter 1841; d. 29 March 1858 (b)
DeCoursey, William, Sr., adm, by letter 1837; d. 1841 (a) (b)
Devenport, Elizabeth, b. 2 March 1788; d. . 20 Dec. 1850 (c)
Devenport, Sims, b. 15 March 1826; d. 11 Nov 1847 (c)
Diltz, John, adm, by bapt. 1851 (b)
Doehli, Oscar, b. 1856; d. 1914 (c)
Doehli, Zetta, b, 1856; d. ___ (c)
Doty, Mrs., d. 1858 (b)
Doty, Emeline, adm by bapt. 1851; d. 1853 (b)
Doty, Samuel, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Dye, John, adm by bapt. 1854; d. 1885 (b)
Dye, Martha, wife of Matthew Corbett, d. 31 Jan. 1847, aged 21(31) yrs. (c)
Dye, Martha, d. 13 Aug. 1849, aged 82 yrs. (c)
Dye, Mary, adm by bapt. 1838; d. 1893 (b)
Flemming, Mary, adm by letter 1832 (b)
Gard, Elizabeth, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Gard, Jason, adm by bapt. 1845 (b)
Gard, Sarah, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Gillilan, John, adm by bapt. 1845 (b)
Green, Elizabeth, adm by bapt. 1842 (b)
Green, Elizabeth Jane, adm by bapt. 1849 (b)
Grizzle, Benjamin S., adm by letter 1843 (b)
Grizzle, Mary Jane, wife of G. W., d/of Sheley & Margaret Walker, d. 1875, aged
25 yrs. (c)
Guy, Hesekiah, adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
Hall, Sarah, adm by bapt. 1839 (b)
Hammond, Davis (d), adm by letter 1854; d.1858 (b)
Harrison, Minrva, adm by bapt. 1842 (b)
Harrison, William, adm by letter 1852; d. 1872 (b)
Hawkings, Sarah, adm by bapt. 1830 (b)
Hawkings, William J., adm by bapt. 1839 (b)
Hawkins, John, adm by letter 1854 (b)
Helm. Ann, adm by bapt. 1854; m. James Digby 22 Oct. 1856; d. 1858 (b)
Hill, Dewitt Clinton, s/of Simon & Jane, d. 4 Oct 1850, aged 8 mos. (c)
Hill, Eliza Jane, d/of Simon & Jane, d. 10 July 1849, aged 7 mos. (c)
Horner, Virginia, w/of John W, d/of Rev James & Sarah Vickers, d-15 July 1861,
26 yrs. (c)
Howell, Berry, d. 6 May 1834, aged 29 yrs. 3 mos. 8 days (c)
Ivins, Joshua, adm by letter 1854 (b)
Jinkins, Richard, restored to membership 1854 (b)
Jolly, America, adm by bapt. 1838 (b)
Jolly, James, adm, by bapt. 1842 (b)
Kelly, Joseph & wife. (a)
Layens, Francis, adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
Leroy, Henry, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Lightfoot, John, adm by bapt. 1843 (b)
Lightfoot, Lucinda, adm by letter 1843 (b)
Lightfoot, Sarah, adm by bapt. (possibly 1851) (b)
Lightfoot, William, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Long, Nicholas, adm by bapt. 1834; d. 1846 (b)
Marsh, Elizabeth, wife of Isaac, d. 18 April 1861, aged 70 yrs. 6 mos. 8 days
(c)
Marsh, Isaac, b. 6 Aug. 1791; d. 6 June 1878 (c)
Marsh, Lucinda, adm by bapt. 1843 (b)
Marsh, William, adm, by bapt. 1839 (b)
Maxfield, Zephniah, (Father), b. 1833; d.1895 (c)
McCarty, Mary Jane, adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
McColum, John, adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
McColum, Mary, adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
McColum, Matilda, adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
McCormac, Robert J., adm by bapt. 1842 (b)
McCrosslin, Mr., member in 1843 (b)
McGlotten, Eliza, listed in 1854 membership list, but hand written notation says
d. 1853 (b)
McHallen, Mary A., adm by bapt. 1845 (b)
Morgan, Rhetta, adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
Morrow, David T., adm by bapt. 1838 (b)
Morrow, Mary, adm, by bapt. 1838 (b)
Murnan, Charles M., adm by bapt. 1839 (b)
Murnan, Elizabeth, adm by bapt. 1820; d. 4 Feb 1843 (b)
Murnan, Francis, adm, by bapt. 1854 (b)
Murnan, George W., adm, by letter 1852 (b)
Murnan, James, adm, by bapt. 1842 (b)
Murnan, Jane, adm by bapt. 1839 (b)
Murnan, Sarah, wife of Charles M., adm by bapt. 1839; d. 29 Dec 1851 (b)
Murnan, Susan, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Nichols, William, adm by bapt. 1845 (b)
Nigeman, Florentine S., adm by bapt. 1837 (b)
Nigeman, Louise, adm by bapt. 1842 (h)
Oliver, Eliza, adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
Orr, Lucy, d. 20 Sep 1863, aged 83 yrs 9 mos. (c)
Orr, Mary, adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
Orr, Rebecca, adm by letter 1832 (b)
Parke, Martha, adm by bapt. 1845 (b)
Parker, Naomi, adm bapt. 1841; d. 1851 (b)
Parsons, Edith, adm by letter 1850 (b)
Parsons, Elijah, son of J. & M., b. 19 Oct 1827; adm by bapt. 1845; d. 1849 (b)
(c)
Parsons, Hesekiah, adm by letter 1854 (b)
Parsons, John, adm by bapt. 1841 (b)
Parsons, John W., adm by bapt. 1842 (b)
Parsons, Mary, adm by
bapt. 1840 (b)
Pearce, Mary, adm by bapt. 1840; d. 1885 (b)
Perry, John N. b. 12 Jan 1832; adm by bapt. 1842; d. 13 July ___ (b) (c)
Perry, Sarah, wife of John. (One stone, dates broken off) (c)
Perry, Mary, adm by bapt. 1842 (b)
Pettit, Mary Jane, adm by bapt. 1852 (b)
Peyman, Elizabeth, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Porter, Georgean, adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
Porter, Thadduess, adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
Rees, Amanda, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Rees, Eliza, adm by bapt. 1842 (b)
Rees, Eliza, adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
Rees, John, adm, by bapt. 1810 (h)
Rees, Mary, adm, by bapt. 1851 (b)
Rees, Thomas H., (Brother) b. 10 June 1814; d. 27 Jan 1892, aged 78 yrs. 17 days
(c)
Rees, Thomas J., adm, by letter 1843 (b)
Reese, Amanda, adm by bapt. 1845 (b)
Reese, Ann J., adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Reese, John R., b. Alma, Va., 30 July 1786; d. 30 Sep 1868, aged 82 yrs (c)
Reese, Malinda J., adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
Reese, Milly, adm by bapt. 1812 (b)
Reese, Thomas H., adm by bapt. 1839 (b)
Reese, William H., (Father), b. 19 March 1825; adm by bapt. 1842; d. 1902
(b) (c)
Riggs, Bethuel, and wife (a)
Rogers, Mary, adm by bapt. 1820 (b)
Roice, June, adm, by letter 1844 (b)
Sethman, Caroline, adm by bapt. 1820 (b)
Sethman, Missouria A., (Sister), b. 1844; d. 1866 (George Brown lot) (c)
Sethman, Sarah, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Shackleford, ___tain, adm by letter 1831 (b)
Shafer, Ruth Ann, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Shafer, Thomas, adm by bapt. 1851; d. 17 Aug 1881, aged 74 yrs. (b) (c)
Smith, Lydia, adm by letter 1807; d. 1844 (b)
Standley, Agness, adm by bapt. 1842 (b)
Standley, Eliza, b. 1821;adm by bapt. 1845; d. 1857 (b) (c)
Standley, Mary, adm by bapt. 1851; d. 186? (b)
Standley, Meredith, adm by bapt. (circa 1838); d. 1841(or 1847) (b)
Standly, Sarah, adm by bapt. 1824 (b)
Standly, William W., son of Elijah & Sarah, d. 9 Apr 1842, aged 18 yrs. (c)
Stebbins, Amariah, adm by bapt. 1839 (b)
Stebbins, Letha (Lepha) Ann, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Stebbins, Permelia, adm by letter 1839; d. 1849 (b)
Stibbins, Sarah, adm by bapt. 1838 (b)
Stil(1)well, Amos, son of Amos & Elizabeth, d. 28 Jan 1856, aged 18 yrs. 8 mos.
28 days (c)
Stillwell, Amos, s/of Joseph & Hannah, b-20 Sep 1802;adm by bapt. 1820;d-12
Apr 1865 (b) (c)
Stillwell, Catherine Jane, d/of Joseph & Hannah;adm by bapt. 1845 (b)
Stillwell, Elizabeth, consort of Amos; d/of Joshua & Margaret Murphy Iliff, b.
in Pa., 29 Nov 1811;adm by bapt, 1839; d. 7 Oct 1851 (b) (c)
Stillwell, Hannah, consort of Joseph, adm, by bapt. 1817; d. 26 Nov 1843, aged
72 yrs. (b) (c)
Stillwell, Joseph, son of Joseph & Mary Ogbourne Stillwell, b. in N. J., 17 Sep
1765;adm by bapt. 1817; d. 6 March 1845 (b) (c)
Stillwell, Joseph, son of Joseph & Hannah, d. 18 July 1857, aged 68 yrs. 8 days
(c)
Stillwell, Margaret, wife of James DeCoursey, adm by bapt. 1842 (b)
Stillwell, Margaret, d/of Amos & Elizabeth, b-1831;m. John Bennett 14 Dec
1852;d-1873 (b)
Stillwell, Marthy, adm by bapt. 1825 (b)
Stillwell, Sarah Ann, wife of John, d. May 1847 (b)
Stillwell, William, Rev, adm by letter 1848 (b)
Streeter, Squire, adm by bapt. 1828 (b)
Summons, Charles, d. 25 July 184?, aged 34 yrs (c)
Taylor, Charles, son of G. & S., b. 21 July 1848; d. 15 Nov 1851 (c)
Terrell, Nancy A., adm by bapt. 1842 (b)
Terrell, William B., adm by bapt. 1842; d. 1847 (b)
Thompson, Closs & wife (a)
Thornell, Brother, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Thornell, Margaret T., adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Thornell, Samuel, adm by letter 1853 (b)
Thornell, Sister, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Townsend, Jesteen, b. 20 May 1845; d- 24 Sep 1850 (c)
Truesdell, Archie (Arghey), b. 12 June 1843; d. 5 Dec 1882 (c)
Vickers, C. W., adm by bapt. 1839; dismissed by letter 1857 (b)
Vickers, Catherine, consort of Rev. James, d. 21 March 1832, aged 77 yrs. 2 mos.
(c)
Vickers, Charles, adm by bapt. 1854; dismissed 1857 (b)
Vickers, Christian, member in 1849 (b)
Vickers, Christopher, member in 1848 (b)
Vickers, Garland, adm by bapt. 1837; dismissed 1852 (b)
Vickers, Hariet S., adm by bapt. 1845; dismissed by letter 1854 (b)
Vickers, J. J., adm by letter 1832 (b)
Vickers, James, adm by bapt. 1842; dismissed by letter 1850 (b)
Vickers, James, Rev., adm by letter 1832; d. 29 Feb 1860, aged 65 yrs. 4 mos. 22
days (b) (c)
Vickers, James V., Jr., member in 1848 (b)
Vickers, John M., adm by bapt. 1837 (b)
Vickers, Joseph, adm by letter 1841; dismissed by letter 1858 (b)
Vickers, Katherine, adm by bapt. 1842; dismissed by letter 1850 (b)
Vickers, Letty, wife of Charles, adm by bapt. 1838; dismissed 1857 (b)
Vickers, Lettice, consort of Elder Robert, adm. Nov 1851 (b)
Vickers, Lucinda, wife of James, adm by bapt. 1843 (b)
Vickers, Margaret, adm by bapt. 3 Feb 1844 (b)
Vickers, Margaret S., adm by bapt. 1818 (b)
Vickers, Robert, (Elder), adm by letter 1837 (b)
Vickers, Sarah, adm by letter 1834 (b)
Vickers, Sarah, 2nd wife of James, d. 22 July 185(4) in her 5(4) yr (c)
Vickers, Thomas F., preacher in 1846. (b)
Vickers, William S., adm by bapt. 1837; d. 30 March 1844 (b)
Walker, Andrew, b. 1 March 1792; d. 11 Feb 1856, aged 63 yrs.
11 mos. 16 days (c)
Walker, E. C., adm, by letter 1854 (b)
Walker, Elizabeth Lewis, d/of William H & Jane H, d. 26 Aug 1851, age 1 yr 1
mo 11 days (c)
Walker, Chester, adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
Walker, John, adm by bapt. 1851; d. 28 Sep 1872, aged 66 yrs (b)
(c)
Walker, John Drury, son of J. & S., b. 15 Feb 1854; d. 21 July 1862 (c)
Walker, Milton, adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
Walker, Nancy, adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
Walker, Nancy, d/of A. & M., b. 14 Feb 1846; d. 6 April 1852 (c)
Walker, Susan, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Walker, Susan, wife of John, adm by bapt. 1854;d. Feb 1873, aged 70 yrs (b) (c)
Walton, Margaret, deceased by 1851 (b)
Walton, Nancy, adm by bapt. 1838 (b)
Ware, America A., d/of W. & F., b. 6 Oct 1847; d. 3 May 1850 (c)
Ware, Daniel, member in 1854 (b)
Ware, Elizabeth, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Ware, Emily, adm by letter 1841 (b)
Ware, Frances, wife of William, d. 23 August 1871, aged 58 (c)
Ware, Francis, adm by letter 1836. (b)
Ware, Lester, adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
Ware, Isaac, adm by bapt. 1838 (b)
Ware, Israel, adm by letter 1806; d. 9 Sep 1847, aged 69 yrs. 1 mo. 2 days (b) (c)
Ware, E., 24th Ohio Regt. (No dates.)
Ware, James M., son of J. & R., b. 23 Apr. 1812; d. 17 July 1857 (c)
Ware, John, adm by bapt. 1840 (b)
Ware, Martha A., wife of William M., d. 5 March 1842 (c)
Ware, Martha, Jr., adm by letter 1840; d. 1841 (b)
Ware, Martha, Sr., adm by letter 1822; d. 1846 (b)
Ware, Mary Jane, adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
Ware, Nancy, adm by letter 1843. (b)
Ware, Nancy, adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
Ware, Rhoda, adm by bapt. 1842 (b)
Ware, Robert, adm by bapt. 1845 (b)
Ware, Sally, adm by bapt. 1842; d. 1854 (b)
Ware, Susan, adm. 1812; d. May 1857 (b)
Ware, Susan, adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
Ware, William, husband of Frances, d. 5 May 1869, aged 60 yrs (c)
Ware, William, adm by bapt. 1840 (b)
Ware, William J., adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
Ware, William M., adm by bapt. 1837 (b)
Ware, William T., son of J. & R., b. 10 June 1838; d. 25 Aug 1856 (c)
Watson, Nancy, adm by bapt. 1838 (b)
Wells, Washington, adm by bapt. 1854 (b)
White, George, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Willison, Catherine, b. 3 Feb 1827; d. 22 Oct 1906 (c)
Willison, Cornelius, b. 24 May 1825;adm by bapt. 1844; d. 5 Sep 1890 (b) (c)
Willison, John James, b. 1843; d. 1864 (c)
Youtsey, Adam, b. 13 Dec 1834; d. 17 July 1861 (c)
Youtsey, Catherine, adm by bapt. 1845 (b)
Youtsey, Elizabeth, adm by bapt. 1842; excluded 1843 (b)
Youtsey, Henry, b. 12 July 1801; d. 7 March 1859 (c)
Youtsey, Katherine, adm by letter 1842 (b)
Youtsey, John H., b. 7 Nov. 1831;adm by bapt. 1854; d. 13 Oct 1860 (b) (c)
Youtsey, Joseph S., d. 19 July 1866, aged 68 yrs. 6 days (c)
Youtsey, Mary A., wife of M. A., born Tyrone, Ireland, 28 March 1822; d. 11
March 1855 (c)
Youtsey, Mary Ann, b. 23 June 1830; d. 11 Dec 1863 (c)
Youtsey, Sally Jane, b. 11 Feb 1840; d. 11 Sep 1860 (c)
Youtsey, Sarah, adm by bapt. 1844; d. 5 March 1849 (b) (c)
Youtsey, Sarah, adm by bapt. 1851 (b)
Youtsey, Thomas, adm by bapt. 1842 (b)