FOREWORD

Triplett Baptist Church records for the period 1857 to 1907 were in the hands of Evelyn Simons, a descendant of G. G. Springston who had been Church Clerk for thirty years of this period. She presented them to my brother, George who was named for G. G. In 1986, we met a member of the present Little Creek Baptist Church, who told us they were trying to put together a history of their church. Knowing that we had records of a church from that vicinity, we agreed to get him a copy.

After examining the church records, we concluded that these were too fragile to survive much more examination by researchers. We felt that the original, together with a typed copy, belonged in the Roane County Museum. Copies of the typed copy could then be distributed to interested parties. (I typed this in 1988, but now in 1999, I am re-typing it on my computer to make the information available electronically.)

This copy is supposed to be an accurate copy of the original, including misspellings, poor grammar, or sentence structure. However, I find that occasionally I introduce an unconscious "correction". For this, I apologize. Some of the ink was badly faded and some of the beautiful penmanship was hard to decipher, causing me to introduce "blanks", "Question Marks", and probably some mistakes.

Included is an alphabetic listing of names appearing in church records, along with page numbers where they appear. Indexing was done manually and is unedited. There are cases where father and son or mother and daughter names are the same, and only through examination is it possible to distinguish which entry applies.

Jack Springston 6/1/1999