Concord Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1854--, 6 mi. E. of
Vienna, RFD., Vienna, Johnson County.
Organized
October 15, 1854 with 9 members. Present church edifice erected
in 1876, a plain frame structure with bell and belfry. Dedicated
in 1878. Remodeled in 1937, and rededicated in June 1938. First
settled pastor, Rev. William Standard, tenure unknow.
Present
Pastor, Rev. Lloyd Noble, 1938--, Anna.
See: May
Chapman, History of Johnson County, Herrin News, 1925.
Copy in office of County Superintendent of Schools, Courthouse,
Vienna.
Session Minutes: 1881--, 1 v. hdw.,
in custody of Arthur Thacker, RFD. 1.
Register:
(members, communicants, baptisms, deaths), 1881--included in Session
Minutes.
Financial Records: incorporated
in Session Minutes.
Sunday School Records:
1939--, 1 v. hdw.
[Source: Inventory
of the Church Archives of Illinois: Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
Prepared by Illinois Historical Records Survey, division of community
service programs, Work Projects Administration. Chicago, Illinois:
Illinois Historical Records Survey, Illinois Public Records Project,
February 1942, pages 98-99]
Report of the Board of Missions.
Recommendation
2: That the Concord Church be declared inactive.
Last
Session Clerk: Hartwell Murrie
[Source:
Minutes of Ewing-McLin-Illinois Presbytery of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church, August 21, 1982, page 21.]