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| Albums |  | Center Point Church (7) Stories of historical days in Vermilion County, Illinois https://archive.org/details/storiesofhistor0tugg/page/56/mode/2up 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. |
Matches 1 to 50 of 50
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, Arthur Charles | Center Point Church | I331 | |
| 4 | Clester, Bonnie May | Center Point Church | I5448 | |
| 5 | Clester, Mona Virgie | Center Point Church | I5449 | |
| 6 | Cox, William | Center Point Church | I1583 | |
| 7 | Cronkhite, Lee | Center Point Church | I926 | |
| 8 | Daulton, Bessie | Center Point Church | I5439 | |
| 9 | Daulton, Joseph B. | Center Point Church | I1635 | |
| 10 | Daulton, Myrtle Mae | Center Point Church | I1638 | |
| 11 | Daulton, Nannie Belle | Center Point Church | I1637 | |
| 12 | Dimick, Charles | Center Point Church | I213 | |
| 13 | Dimick, Daniel Thomas | Center Point Church | I5437 | |
| 14 | Dimick, Gertrude F. | Center Point Church | I5435 | |
| 15 | Dimick, Henry Arthur | Center Point Church | I1477 | |
| 16 | Dimick, Rebecca Jane "Jennie" | Center Point Church | I212 | |
| 17 | Dubree, Medora Ethel "Dora" | Center Point Church | I309 | |
| 18 | Easton, Daisy Irene | Center Point Church | I299 | |
| 19 | Ellis, Jasper Edward "Jay" | Center Point Church | I281 | |
| 20 | Fox, George Wann | Center Point Church | I5444 | |
| 21 | Fox, Joseph Benton | Center Point Church | I5290 | |
| 22 | Fox, Marion Fielden | Center Point Church | I5349 | |
| 23 | Fox, Willis Benton | Center Point Church | I97 | |
| 24 | Gritton, Cora Belle | Center Point Church | I91 | |
| 25 | Hedges, Ada Luvina | Center Point Church | I289 | |
| 26 | Hedges, George Fielden | Center Point Church | I82 | |
| 27 | Hedges, Grace Gertrude | Center Point Church | I96 | |
| 28 | Hedges, Isaac Sylvester | Center Point Church | I308 | |
| 29 | Hedges, James Alva | Center Point Church | I24 | |
| 30 | Hedges, James Alva | Center Point Church | I11 | |
| 31 | Hedges, Jasper Newton | Center Point Church | I90 | |
| 32 | Hedges, Lottie Pearl | Center Point Church | I330 | |
| 33 | Hedges, Mary Dalton | Center Point Church | I88 | |
| 34 | Hedges, Mary Lucy "Mollie" | Center Point Church | I1305 | |
| 35 | Hedges, Ralph Jewell | Center Point Church | I94 | |
| 36 | Hedges, Serona Demeree | Center Point Church | I280 | |
| 37 | Hedges, Sophia Cordella | Center Point Church | I92 | |
| 38 | Hitchcock, Ada M. | Center Point Church | I2084 | |
| 39 | Hunt, Matilda | Center Point Church | I403 | |
| 40 | Kelly, Levina "Vina" | Center Point Church | I5442 | |
| 41 | Larry, Lulu | Center Point Church | I5445 | |
| 42 | Riggen, Robert | Center Point Church | I1306 | |
| 43 | Simpson, William "Cecil" | Center Point Church | I191 | |
| 44 | Smith, James "Lester" | Center Point Church | I293 | |
| 45 | Smith, Leonard Wesley | Center Point Church | I298 | |
| 46 | Smith, Thomas Laben | Center Point Church | I290 | |
| 47 | Tosh, Mary Etta | Center Point Church | I214 | |
| 48 | Yeazel, Chester "Rollie" | Center Point Church | I93 | |
| 49 | Yeazel, Harold Ralph | Center Point Church | I98 | |
| 50 | Yeazel, Howard Baldwin | Center Point Church | I100 | |