Commiskey
Constituted in April, 1882

 
Some four of five years ago, mainly through the efforts of Elder W.H. Lawrence, and largely by his means, a neat and comfortable meeting-house was erected in the town of Commiskey, a station on the O. & M. Branch Railroad, and deeded to the Baptist denomination, but there was no church organization in the place until Saturday, April 15, 1882, when the Commiskey Baptist Church was constituted.
   Agreeably to arrangements, a council convened at the meeting-house the day above named. After the reading if the twelfth chapter of First Corinthians, prayer was offered by Rev. A. Scott, of theM.E. Church, and an appropriate sermon delivered by Rev. Allen Hill form Neh.ii. 20. Elder Hill was then chosen Moderator and J.C. Tibbets Clerk, and recognition services were continued in the following manner; Charge by Elder Allen Hill, prayer by Elder U.M. McGuire, the hand of fellowship by council and congregation.
   The constituent members were all from Coffee Creek Church and were as follows; W.H. Lawrence, Ellison Arbuckle, Elizabeth Lowrey, Minerva Spear and Mary Tate.

 DEACONS AND CLERK.

    Wm. H. Lawrence and Alexander Arbuckle are the deacons, and Ellison Arbuckle Clerk; address, Commiskey, Jennings County, Ind.

 CHURCH WORKS

    The day the church was constituted, Elder Hill became its pastor and still serves. Arrangements were also made to open Sabbath-school the next day, and for regular church, meetings, Commiskey was received into the Association, at its last session, with twelve members.

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  The statistics of all the foregoing churches are given up to the session of 1882, which is the latest authentic report. Commiskey, I have been told now numbers thirty, and several other churches have had additions, which will considerably swell the aggregate membership of the Association. 

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