Emanuel AME Church Papers (1950-1982)

 

Avery Research Center Manuscript Number 1035

 

Historical Note:

 

Emanuel AME Church is located in the area of St. Andrew’s Parish, Charleston County that once was part of the incorporated African American town of Maryville. The town lost its charter in 1936 and the area is now part of the City of Charleston. The church continues on its original site, at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Highway 61.  

 

Scope and Content: Approx. ˝ Ft. (c. 1950- c. 1982)

 

The records consist of three volumes containing minutes of the leadership of the church, detailing all elements of business and religious life; with various sporadic listings of members, monthly contributions to the church and other financial records. Many of the minutes are written in a modified form of Gullah. Miscellaneous materials include financial receipts, etc. and some information about Maryville, including correspondence of the West Ashley Civic Association. 

 

 

African American – towns – South Carolina – Maryville

African Methodist Episcopal Churches – South Carolina - Charleston

Maryville, South Carolina

Emanuel AME Church, Charleston, SC

Creole languages – Gullah – written examples

 

       

 

 

 

 

 

Emanuel AME Church Papers

 

 

Avery Manuscript Number 1035

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Church Records

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Record book (1950-1953) contains sporadic lists of church member rolls; minutes

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of mostly monthly meetings, monthly lists of income and expenditures; and lists of

 

 

member donations. Minutes, some written in modified Gullah, detail prayers and hymns  

 

sung at meetings, with all types of business discussed; with many mentions of cemetery

 

 

 

 

2

Record book (1956-1960, 1970, 1975)  contains numerous lists of church members 

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with monthly notations of donations. Mostly monthly trustee minutes discuss all manner     

 

of church business, financial and otherwise, and note prayers offered and hymns sung.     

 

Minutes from some other committee meetings included as well; records show varying

 

 

degrees of writing skills.

 

 

 

 

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Record book (1966-1982) contains various member rolls, minutes of monthly church

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trustee meetings, noting prayers and hymns and detailing all levels of business conducted

 

with financial reports and some loose materials.

 

 

 

 

4

Loose papers include many financial jottings and receipts (ca. 1950 - 1980) for

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various services and purchases; with lists (1952) of people buying raffle tickets to

 

 

benefit the cemetery; and notice (1977) re tax exempt status of church-owned land

 

 

 

 

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Miscellaneous materials include a church program, a pledge envelope and a burial

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removal/transit permit

 

 

 

 

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Maryville materials

 

 

 

 

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Correspondence (1954-1962) of West Ashley Civic Association and others  re

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maintaining and paving roads in Maryville and requests for permission to use Deming

 

 

School property for a neighborhood park and recreation center.

 

 

 

 

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Photocopies of two items re Maryville community, including data on a 1931 murder

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of 12 year old Albert Simons by 85 year old William Mims, for insurance money