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By 1858–59 · course unrecovered
One gazetteer line is the whole of this congregation's recovered record. Hawes' Indiana State Gazetteer for 1858–59 describes New Carlisle as containing "two churches, Methodist Episcopal and Presbyterian, and two schools," with a population of 300. No second witness has been found. Chapman's Olive Township churches section of 1880 gives full accounts of the Methodist societies, the Christian Church, and Olive Chapel, and has no Presbyterian section; Howard's Olive and New Carlisle sections of 1907 are likewise silent; the South Bend Area Genealogical Society's church-records index carries no New Carlisle Presbyterian entry; and no Presbyterian congregation appears in the town in any modern directory searched. The congregation therefore banks here at gazetteer strength — a Presbyterian church stood in New Carlisle by 1858–59, and its founding, building, and end are unrecovered — as a named gap below, its settlers the presbytery's records and the Presbyterian historical collections, a county-history re-read, and the Historic New Carlisle museum's files. Nothing from any other town's Presbyterian church is imported to fill it.
Sources
- Hawes' Indiana State Gazetteer, 1858–59, New Carlisle entry — read in the ldsgenealogy.com transcription (AI-OCR carrier).
- Chapman (1880) and Howard (1907), Olive Township and New Carlisle sections — negative witness, read first-hand.
- South Bend Area Genealogical Society, church-records index — negative witness, read in full.