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Stateline Primitive Baptist Church

Title: Stateline Primitive Baptist Church
Description: Elder Joseph Scales (born 9-19-1892 and died 4-25-19700) (son of James and Mary Scales) baptizing a man in a creek. New church members were baptized in the river or creek. Elder Joseph Scales, pastor of State Line Primitive Baptist Church, and Elder Andrew Taylor are baptizing a new member in Lovills Creek c. 1949. The creeks runs through the present Cross Creek Country Club in Surry County. Other bodies of water used for baptism were the Ararat River and Stewart's Creek
Subject: Surry County (N.C.); Mount Airy (N.C.); Stateline Primitive Baptist Church; Church; Baptist; baptism
Source: "Moments in History" (A documentary of the James M. Scales family)
Contributor: Mount Airy Museum of Regional History
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
Format: photograph
Type: still image
Coverage: Mount Airy (N.C.)
Identifier: Mta_SPBC_i12023.001_mam
Date: 1949
Is Part Of: baptism; Baptist; Church; Mount Airy (N.C.); Stateline Primitive Baptist Church; Surry County (N.C.)