Mifflintown, Westminster/Mifflintown Presbyterian Church

According to our records, the Mifflintown and Lost Creek congregations in the Presbytery of Huntingdon were originally one church known as the Cedar Spring (sometimes Springs) Presbyterian Church in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania.  This church dates back to 1759. In 1800, the congregation expanded into two buildings about eight miles apart to house its growing congregation. The Lost Creek Presbyterian Church was organized in the town of McAlisterville, PA, while the Mifflintown Presbyterian Church remained in Mifflintown. The congregation was run as one church, sharing a minister and was listed in the General Assembly Minutes of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. as the Mifflintown and Lost Creek Presbyterian Church.  In 1875, the congregations split. While the Lost Creek Church still goes by that name, the Mifflintown Presbyterian Church changed names to Westminster Presbyterian Church.  

A search of our catalogs shows the following records which contain genealogical information from Westminster Presbyterian Church deposited in our holdings:

• Mifflintown, Pa. Westminster Presbyterian Church. Pastoral records, 1806-1870. 2 volumes. Includes baptisms, 1806-1844; communicants, 1816-1864; marriages, 1806-1870. (Call number: V MI46 M587pr)
   
• Mifflintown, Pa. Westminster Presbyterian Church. Registers, 1872-1940. 3 volumes. Includes communicants, marriages, baptisms and death records. (Call number: V MI46 M587wr)
   
• Mifflintown, Pa. Westminster Presbyterian Church. Session minutes, 1875-1949. 4 volumes. (Call number: V MI46 M587ws)
   
• Sherrard, T. J. Pastoral register, 1869-1902. Register of Rev. Thomas Johnson Sherrard while pastor at Mifflintown, Brookville, Honey Brook and Chambersburg, Pa. churches; includes sermon texts. (Call number: VAULT BX 9225 .S574 A31)
  • v.1 (Mifflintown, Pa.): Membership, 1872-1879 -- Baptisms, 1872-1880 --Marriages, 1877-1880.
  • v.2 (Brookville, Pa.): Membership, 1880-1883 --Marriages, 1880-1883 -- (Honey Brook, Pa.): Membership, 1883-1886 -- Marriages, 1880-1883.
  • v.3 (Honey Brook, Pa.): Membership, 1888-1889 --Baptims, 1888-1889 -- Marriages, 1888 -- (Chambersburg, Pa.): Membership, 1890-1894 -- Baptisms, 1891-1894 -- Marriages, 1890-1893.
  • v.4 (Chambersburg, Pa.): Membership, 1895-1901 --Baptisms, 1895-1901 -- Marriages, 1895-1901.
• Westminster Presbyterian Church (Mifflintown, Pa.). Records and minutes. 1950 – 1979. (Call number: 97 0923a)

Other records of the Westminster Presbyterian Church deposited in our holdings include: Congregational meeting minutes and reports, 1875-1952 (2 vols.); Ladies Aid Society records, 1934-1943 (1 vol.); Westminster Guild records, 1915-1932 (2 vols.); Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society minutes, 1892-1913; including Woman's Home Missionary Society minutes, 1892-1904; Woman's Foreign Missionary Society minutes, 1892-1904; and Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society minutes, 1904-1913 (2 vols.); Young Ladies Foreign Missionary Society minutes, 1892-1895 (1 vol.). (Call number: V MI46 M587+)

Westminster in Mifflintown is an active congregation and may still have their earliest records. You may wish to contact them directly to see what else may exist:

Westminster Presbyterian Church
208 Lemon St
Mifflintown, PA 17059
717-436-2219
email: westminsterupc@pa.net

A search of our catalogs does not show any records of the Lost Creek Presbyterian Church deposited in our holdings.  

The Lost Creek Presbyterian Church is also an active congregations and may still have their records.  You may wish to contact them directly.

Lost Creek Presbyterian Church
PO Box 91
McAlisterville, PA 17049-0091
717-463-3138
email: www.lostcreekpres.org
office@lostcreekpres.org