hmtl5 Center Point Church: Hedges Genealogy
Center Point Church

Center Point Church



 


Notes:
Head South out of Fairmount on N600 East Road

Turn Right (west) at first gravel road (E 1100 North Road)

[note: if we had turned to the left (east) we would be going toward George & Cora’s house]

Pass the limestone quarry (on the right). Drive up the hill: the big quarry is visible in the distance on the right.

This road ends in a T intersection at 400E.

Turn Left (south).

[note: Grace and Willis and kids lived in a house that sat just West of this T intersection in 1934. Marion was in first grade when they moved. When Marjorie started school she walked a mile straight south to the school house.]

Continue straight on 400 East Road

[note: Henry and Bessie Lewis lived where trees were by that house. Marjorie went to the school for 8 years. The school was just to the north of the little hill with trees. Marjorie lived on the east side of the road.]

Continue south past intersection with 900N road. Trisler farms on east side of the road.

Center Point School was near the intersection of 800N and 400E. The school faced south.

Turn west onto 800N.

At the intersection of 800N and 300E turn south. There is a house on the east side of the road where Sophia and Rollie lived. The Moreman family lived to the north.

Center Point Church was one mile from Center Point School.

400E and 800N the church sat on the west side of the road facing east.

Address : Latitude: 39.982259, Longitude: -87.861402


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CENTER POINT CHURCH

By WlLINORE Moreman, Dist. 170 Teacher, Edna White

I have chosen this subject because I am one of the fourth generation of my family to attend the Center Point Church.

This church is located about six miles southwest of Fairmount and three miles from Jamaica. In the year of 1891 this church was dedicated by Reverend Brooks of Paris, Illinois.

Prior to this time, the people worshipped in the Center Point schoolhouse. It was in the year of 1891, while a revival meeting was being held, that a young lady, Miss Ada Hedges, now Mrs. Ada Smith of Homer, Illinois, desired to enlist in the services and work of her Lord. Her parents, being members of the Church of Christ, sought to start their daughter in the Gospel training and their own faith. A preacher of the New Testament was then called. This minister was the Reverend B. N. Anderson, who held a three weeks' meeting in the Center Point Schoolhouse, and in which building Sunday School and Church were held until February 14, 1891. Sunday School and Church had been held in the schoolhouse in former years occasionally, but there was no organization until 1891.

Then the disciples named below met and organized themselves into a congregation of the New Testament teaching:

Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hedges, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. Robert McKee, Mr. and Mrs. David Sconce, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Greer, Mrs. Matilda Hitchcock, Mrs. Jennie Hopper, Mrs. Lucy Hedges, Mrs. Anna Elliott Sullivan all now deceased.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Ellis of Macy, Indiana

Mrs. Emma Elliott Carrington of Georgetown

Mrs. Ada Hedges Smith of Homer

Mr. Harvey Elliott of Sidell, Illinois.

Elders of the church chosen at the time the church was organized were: Richard Elliott, James A. Hedges. Deacons of the Church when organized: Ed. Ellis, Harvey Elliott.

Thirty-two members were received in the first revival meeting, many of whom have "crossed the bar" but whose children and grandchildren are still carrying on the work.

The Sunday School attendance on each Sunday is from 35 to 50. There is one man attending who has not missed Sunday School in five years. This man is George Hedges of Fairmount, Illinois. Many have a one year record.

Reverend I. L. Cummins of Danville has been the minister of the Church the last five years, and it is thought that his good work has kept the Church thriving and growing.

Religion

Matches 1 to 45 of 45

   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Religion    Person ID 
1 Allen, Gladys Pearl  Center Point Church I294
2 Allen, Philora  Center Point Church I19
3 Clester, Charles Arthur  Center Point Church I331
4 Cox, William  Center Point Church I1583
5 Cronkhite, Lee  Center Point Church I926
6 Daulton, Bessie  Center Point Church I5439
7 Daulton, Joseph B.  Center Point Church I1635
8 Daulton, Myrtle Mae  Center Point Church I1638
9 Daulton, Nannie Belle  Center Point Church I1637
10 Dimick, Charles  Center Point Church I213
11 Dimick, Daniel Thomas  Center Point Church I5437
12 Dimick, Gertrude F.  Center Point Church I5435
13 Dimick, Henry Arthur  Center Point Church I1477
14 Dimick, Rebecca Jane "Jennie"  Center Point Church I212
15 Easton, Daisy Irene  Center Point Church I299
16 Ellis, Jasper Edward "Jay"  Center Point Church I281
17 Fox, Joseph Benton  Center Point Church I5290
18 Fox, Marion Fielden  Center Point Church I5349
19 Fox, Willis Benton  Center Point Church I97
20 Gritton, Cora Belle  Center Point Church I91
21 Hedges, Ada Luvina  Center Point Church I289
22 Hedges, George Fielden  Center Point Church I82
23 Hedges, Grace Gertrude  Center Point Church I96
24 Hedges, James Alva  Center Point Church I24
25 Hedges, James Alva  Center Point Church I11
26 Hedges, Jasper Newton  Center Point Church I90
27 Hedges, Lottie Pearl  Center Point Church I330
28 Hedges, Mary Dalton  Center Point Church I88
29 Hedges, Mary Lucy "Mollie"  Center Point Church I1305
30 Hedges, Ralph Jewell  Center Point Church I94
31 Hedges, Serona Demeree  Center Point Church I280
32 Hedges, Sophia Cordella  Center Point Church I92
33 Hitchcock, Ada M.  Center Point Church I2084
34 Hunt, Matilda  Center Point Church I403
35 Kelly, Levina "Vina"  Center Point Church I5442
36 Larry, Lulu  Center Point Church I5445
37 Riggen, Robert  Center Point Church I1306
38 Simpson, William "Cecil"  Center Point Church I191
39 Smith, James "Lester"  Center Point Church I293
40 Smith, Leonard Wesley  Center Point Church I298
41 Smith, Thomas Laben  Center Point Church I290
42 Tosh, Mary Etta  Center Point Church I214
43 Yeazel, Chester "Rollie"  Center Point Church I93
44 Yeazel, Harold Ralph  Center Point Church I98
45 Yeazel, Howard Baldwin  Center Point Church I100