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17, and Father F. W. Cleary, who came in De- cember, 1917.
The first building, costing $800, was used until about 1874-5 when $9,000 was expended for a church edifice and rectory, during the pastorate of Father Heller. The parish has no parochial school at this time, but owns the old buildings once used as a convent and school, which are valued at about $3,500.
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH OF CARTHAGE was organized in 1860, one year prior to the Civil War. It charter members were : Father Lamar, James Madden, John Culkin, Sr., P. Lynch, Judge Jolın D. Miller, Joseph Helfrich, Mrs. Anna Roberts, Judge J. B. Risse, Owen P. Carroll, James Cox, P. Darham, E. P. Hull, Patrick Sweeney, Hugh Markey, Frank McNally, P. Welch, Mrs. Ella Babington, Mrs. J. B. Risse, Mrs. J. Miller, Mrs. B. Graham, Mrs. Catherine Darham, Mrs. B. Connaughton, Mrs. Judge L. Martin
The following have served it as pastors : Rev. Father Lamar attended from Macomb from 1860 to 1865; P. L. Hendrick; H. J. Reimbold; J. K. Heeler ; J. Zumbueln, 1877-78, first resident priest; Henry A. O'Kelly, 1878-80; J. E. O'Reilly, who placed first bell in church ; J. Mc- Kenna, 1882-1894; Charles O'Brien, 1894-96 ; Foley, 1896-98; J. E. Walsh, 1898-1907; M. J. Brennan, 1907-12; William E. O'Brien, 1912-16, and Rev. Dr. Lewis B. Landreth, 1916.
A new church was built and other improve- ments were made under Rev. Landreth and his predecessor. The present church was built in 1915-16 at a cost of $29,000, interior $3,200, total $32,200. It is a handsome brick structure, seats 350. In the basement is an Assembly Hall with a stage, three drop curtains, oil painting donated by the business men of Carthage. The membership is about 420.
ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH at Gittings Mound in Durham Township, was or- ganized in 1865 with charter members as fol- lows: M. G. Gittings, Ivo Gittings, Henry Git- tings, Thomas Markey, Sr., William McQuillian, Philip H. Farren, Mrs. Katherine Heisler, Wil- liam Dean, Mrs. J. McGrath, P. Glynn, Joseph Glynn.
The various pastors serving this church have been as follows: Rev. Fathers Lamar, P. L. Hendrick, H. J. Reimbold, J. K. Heeler, J. Zum- bueln, Henry ,O'Kelly, J. E. O'Reilly, J. Mc- Kenna, Charles O'Brien, Foley, J. E. Walsh, M.
J. Brennan, William E. O'Brien and Rev. Dr. Lewis B. Landreth.
The original church building was erected in 1865 at a cost of $7,800, but was burned May 10, 1918. A new building was erected in 1919, and it was dedicated free of all debt. Rev. Lewis B. Landreth of Carthage attends this church every fourth Sunday. The old church seated 450. The new building seats about the same number and has a modern Sunday school- room complete in every way. The historical old cemetery donated by M. J. Gittings as church property, fifty-four years ago, is connected with this church.
ST. MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH OF WEST POINT was organized in 1880. The charter members were J. B. Howard, Steve Laffey, P. Newell, J. Cavanaugh. V. Gunn, Mrs. Mary Newell, T. E. Laffey, M. D. Laffey, Mrs. Mary Clampitt and Rev. H. A. O'Kelly. The pastors who have served this parish are as follows: Rev. Fathers Henry O'Kelly, J. E. Reilly, J. McKenna, Charles O'Brien, Foley, J. E. Walsh, M. J. Brennan, Wil- liam E. O'Brien and Lewis B. Landreth.
The present membership is about seventy-nine. The church was erected in the spring of 1880, and cost completed $6,500. The parochial school in connection has a seating of 159, and is thor- oughly modern.
ST. JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH OF LA HARPE Was organized in 1885 with the following charter members : Patrick Glynn, J. Lee, Mrs. Ed Kime, Mrs. Albert Anderson, Mrs. A. Yeager. This church is attended from Carthage, and hence has the same list of pastors. (See Catholic Church of Carthage.)
A great many years ago the congregation bought the little brick school house in the north- east part of La Harpe and converted it into a place of worship. A modern Sunday school is connected with the church work. Regular church services are held twice each month.
SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH OF DALLAS CITY was organized in 1908. It had for charter members: Martin F. Dettmer, Steve E. Mc- Bride, A. McAndrews, Victor A. Van Arx, John Hogan, James M. McAndrews, P. H. Ferren, Rev. M. J. Brennan. The pastors serving here since organization have been: Revs. Martin J. Bren- nan, William E. O'Brien and Lewis B. Landreth.
The church edifice was erected October, 1908, and cost complete $9,000. The parochial school seats 250 pupils, is modern and clear of all debt. The membership is about eighty-nine.
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CHRISTIAN
MT. PLEASANT CHURCH. The Christian (or Disciples of Christ) and the Methodist Episco- pal denominations are probably the strongest of any of the churches, either Protestant or Catho- lic, in this county. The Christian churches num- ber twenty, while the Methodist Episcopal have more than a dozen.
The oldest Christian Church in the county is the one known as the Mt. Pleasant Church, which is situated midway between Carthage and Plymouth, ten miles from each place, and four and one-half miles from Bentley. Its history dates back to 1833, when there came from Adair County, Ky., Gilmore Callison and his wife Elizabeth, her brother James McClure, who had been baptized in 1830 in Green River, Ky., by the pioneer preacher of the Christian faith, John D. Steele; Mrs. Betsy Massie; Green Browning, and others. These persons met on the first Lord's Day after their arrival, at the home of Mr. Callison, to "break ,bread," and then formed a Church of Christ. This was be- yond question the first "Christian" church es- tablished in Hancock County and it became the Mother church of congregations at Ply- mouth, Carthage, Augusta, Oak Grove, Denver and Bentley.
From the work entitled "History of the Disciples In Illinois" we quote the following concerning this pioneer church organization : "The settlers soon gave to the place its name, 'Mt. Pleasant.' In 1839 Josiah Callison was or- dained as an elder and William Smith was made a deacon. The two Callisons served this and other communities as preachers. People came from five to twenty-five miles to the public worship. They came on horseback and in wagons, sometimes drawn by oxen, and were entertained by those living near the grove. Young people walked from two to five miles to church.
"Robert, John, James, George and Elizabeth Stark united with the church some years after its organization. The Starks, Pattens, Drons and others were firm friends of Alexander Campbell in Scotland. Margaret Patten was one of his friends who ministered to him in prison. He called her and her girl companions his "Min- istering Angels." Robert Stark when he first came from Scotland, and probably James Stark also, made his residence at Mr. Campbell's home in Virginia. Elizabeth Stark married Simeon
B. Walton and settled near the church. He united with the congregation in 1843. James and Mary A. Black came from Elkton, Ky., in 1852. He was ordained an elder and when there was no regular minister preached for the con- gregation till 1875. William and Lucy Lyon Bridgewater united with the church in 1852.
Mrs. Alzada Groves, an octogenarian, says that when she first knew the Mt. Pleasant church, the women wore homespun as did the men also, all made by the home folks. The women were proud of a calico dress and a sunbonnet. The men wore skin caps and straw hats that were braided and sewed by the women. After her marriage Mrs. Groves often walked two miles to church, and carried her baby. In the early days it was common to hear the wolves howl at night; but their proximity and blood- curdling howls did not keep anyone away from church. A mother and her son were driving through the timber one night when a wolf fol- lowed them. The boy drove the horses while the mother sat at the end of the wagon and kept it off with a pitchfork.
At one time Robert Foster settled in the community and preached for the congregations. The members built a house for him on a farm about three miles from the chapel. Before that time Mr. McClure met a man on the road near Tuckertown, who asked him where he lived. Upon his reply the man said: "Why that is over in the Campbellite settlement. Are they not dangerous and do they not have humps on their backs, and horns?" Mr. McClure an- swered: "I am one of them. They are not dangerous and they look like most people, I guess. Come over to our meetings."
In August, 1858 or 1859, a district meeting was held at Mt. Pleasant which lasted two weeks. Many preachers were present, among them Thomas Munnell and one of the Erretts. People came from afar to attend it.
In 1875 the Mt. Pleasant mission built a chapel in Denver and began to establish a Christian congregation there.
This has been an apostolic church and has done a world of good. It has had a host of faithful and truly good men and women con- nected with it. In the winter of 1912-13 a father and his daughter walked four miles, by reason of the snow blockading the roads, rather than miss public worship. This church gave Henry Black, J. O. Walton, Mrs. Sadie McCoy Crank and Miss Ava S. Walton to the ministry.
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Bentley is a mission of the Mt. Pleasant Church. It was organized at the end of 1890, and a chapel was erected later.
THE HARMONY TOWNSHIP SOCIETY was organ- ized as early as 1837 and is the second oldest in the township. They erected a meeting house on Section 13, in the eastern part of the town- ship, as early as 1850. Early in the seventies this church society was moved to the village of Denver, where it is now a part of one of the county's strongest churches.
THE AUGUSTA CHURCH, the third Christian church in the county was organized in 1850 at Augusta by James Stark. The record of this church says, "Mr. Stark was ordained at Jack- sonville, Ill., in 1837, and moved to Augusta in 1842. He was willing at all times to preach the gospel as opportunity offered. Meetings were held in the homes of Benjamin Gould and Wil- liam Dron. A chapel was erected in 1850. Elders Stark, Dron, Gould, Young and others led the Lord's Day meetings till 1868, when Elder E. J. Lampton conducted services and acted as pastor for six years. About a score or more have served as ministers at this place, and many others have spent part of their time there."
More than 1,000 members have been enrolled in this church from the date of its formation to 1915. It has given to the ministry James Mc- Clure, Robert E. Henry and Mrs. Mary Pickens- Buckner. A recent report from this church gives these facts: The charter members were James Stark and wife and two daughters, Helen and Mattie; William Dron and wife, John H. Brown- ing and wife, John DeGroot and wife, Henry De- Groot and wife, Henry A. Young and wife, Mrs. James Holt, Mary DeGroot, Harvey Laflerand and wife, C. W. Browning and wife.
The following is the list of all pastors : Revs. E. J. Lampton, J. Carroll Stark, H. R. Trickett, T. W. Cottingham, James McGuire, M. P. Hay- don, W. K. Slater, J. W. Carpenter, A. L. Fer- guson, R. Corey, A. Swartz Thomas Hodkinson, E. T. Cornelius, H. M. Garn, L. H. Hooe, J. W. Wright, H. F. Kern and F. W. Leonard.
The present membership is about 175, with a Sunday school enrollment of about 150. The present edifice is a splendid frame structure, with a spacious Sunday school room, auditorium, classroom and balcony, with a basement under entire building in which is a furnace-room, kitchen and dining hall.
THE PLYMOUTH CHURCH was organized in
-1855 under J. R. Ross. The present member- ship is about seventy-three; the value of prop- erty is $9,000. The charter members of this society were: David and Susan Palmer, John and Zerilda Ritchey, Jonas and Margaret Myers, J. W. Bell, A. B. Moore, John and Rebecca Madi- son, John Hendrickson and David and Nancy Wade.
The Christian Church of Carthage was or- ganized at a meeting held at the court-house by Jolın Errett and M. M. Goode in the Spring of 1864. The date of organization was April 13th. The congregation was organized with the following members, who were present in person or by some representative of the family, and were regarded as charter members, to-wit: Allen McQuary, Alice Crawford, Margaret Crawford, Elizabeth Scofield, William W. Hughes, Elizabeth Hughes, Dr. and Mrs. James M. Mayfield, Mr. and Mrs. William Patterson, Jesse C. Williams, Mary A. Williams, and Vir- ginia Wilson. Harrison Crawford became a' member of the church at a later date. Rebekah Spangler and Nancy Gibson were early, if not charter members. Jesse C. Williams, who was born in Kentucky on August 22, 1819, died at Carthage on December 5, 1917, at the advanced age of ninety-eight years.
The congregation had no pastor at first, but had occasional services by ministers passing this way, and met regularly from the time of its organization, even when no minister was present. for the purpose of engaging in song and prayer and the communion service. Suclı services on Sunday morning were then regarded by the Christian church as the principal service, and a sermon by a minister as an additional and desirable part of the service, but not as a necessary part thereof, and not as dispensing with the primary object of the Sunday services.
Among other ministers who passed through Carthage and held a brief meeting of one or two weeks' duration for the congregation, were B. B. Tyler and H. D. Clark. B. B. Tyler was a very bright young man, just out of college at that time, who afterwards distinguished him- self as a minister in New York City and at other principal points. H. D. Clark had served in the Union Army in the Civil War and had just_returned home from the army when he held this brief meeting at Carthage. His first convert as a minister was Mrs. Eliza Taylor, mother of Charles W. Taylor, late of this city, who was baptized by Mr. Clark in Crooked Creek.
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It may be added that John Errett was a brother of Isaac Errett, for many years editor of The Christian Standard at Cincinnati, and that M. M. Goode afterwards had a long and suc- cessful career in the ministry, principally at St. Joseph, Missouri.
Dr. William Booz of this county, preached for the Carthage congregation in the court house a few times, as did also Mr. Coffey and Mr. Featherston, then temporarily residing in the county. Mr. Coffey had committed many parts of the scriptures, and was able to recite correctly all the Psalms with closed book.
In September, 1865, Elder E. J. Lampton be- came the pastor of the Carthage congregation, preaching for that church two Sundays of every month and preaching at other points the re- mainder of the time. He was an able pulpit man, knowing the Bible thoroughly, and relying upon that book and his experience in life as the foundation of his sermons. He and his wife are now living at Louisiana, Missouri. He has been a consistent and faithful preacher for more than sixty years.
Other ministers who have served this congre- gation may be mentioned here in the order of service : William Griffin, H. R. Trickett, J. H. Garrison. George Brewster, Eli Fisher, Charles J. Scofield from 1881 to 1895, and three years or more subsequently, William P. Shamhart, J. C. Coggin, Sherman Hill, J. M. Elam, W. W. Denham, A. L. Cole, E. M. Smith, and R. B. Fouts, the present pastor. Mr. Scofield was the first to hold services regularly, his pre- decessors having preached for the congregation for one-fourth or one-half of the time only. Since about 1881 the services have been held regularly.
William Griffin was county superintendent of schools for eight years, and rendered able serv- ice in the pulpit to the church during this period, without compensation. J. H. Garrison preached for this congregation one-fourth of the time for about one year. He was then liv- ing at Quincy and editing a church paper. Afterwards the plant was moved to St. Louis and the paper became known as The Christian Evangelist of which Mr. Garrsion now living in California, is still editor emeritus. H. R. Trick- ett lived near Golden's Point and was a man whose eccentricities were as manifest as his great ability. His mind was a storehouse of knowledge, his thoughts were expressed in glowing and beautiful terms, but he was a stu-
dent, and not a pastor, and this defect impaired his efficiency as a minister. Mr. Brewster was the father of Mrs. Geraldine Miller, the wife of our present County Clerk, and was a lineal descendant of Elder William Brewster of Ply- mouth Rock fame. Mr. Scofield served the church at first when it was financially weak, and served without compensation a large part of the time, earning his livelihood by the prac- tice of the law or by his salary as circuit judge, and contributing whatever salary was at any time paid him, to the work of the church. The ministers who served the congregation more re- cently have been men of ability and the work has prospered under their superintendency.
The first church building, the little frame church, 32 by 48, was built south of the creek on part of lot 6 in block 25, which tract is now used by the public school as a play ground. This building was dedicated on September 2, 1866, President B. H. Smith of Christian Uni- versity at Canton, Missouri, having charge of the services. Mr. Smith was a man of unusual physical and mental endowment, and it was worth something to the congregation and others present to see and hear him.
After the congregation had prospered until this small building had become insufficient for its purposes, the present church structure was erected. This was done at considerable sacri- fice, as the congregation was not composed of wealthy people, but it was accomplished never- theless, and the new building was dedicated on September 2, 1888, with J. G. Waggoner, now of Canton, Illinois, in charge of the services. It was on the afternoon of this Sunday that Mr. Trickett preached the sermon above alluded to. Mr. Waggoner spoke in the morning and evening.
For some years after the building had been erected, the audience room was one of the best in Carthage, but subsequently large churches with accommodations for large audiences were built by the Presbyterian, Methodist and Bap- tist congregations.
From this congregation some efficient work- ers have gone into the field. A. L. McQuary, whose boyhood days were passed at Carthage, and whose father, Allen McQuary, was the first elder of the congregation, was engaged for many years in Missouri in pulpit work, and especially in Sunday School work, as one of the organizers under direction of the State Sunday School Association.
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Q. H. Felpar
Lucy M. Felgar
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George A. Miller, while attending Carthage College, was converted and became a member of the Christian church of that city, and after- wards developed into one of the most able and successful of the ministers of the church in the United States. For many years he has been the successful pastor of one of the churches at Washington, D. C., and he is still the popular and able pastor of that congregation. Mrs. Lura V. Porter, formerly Miss Lura V. Thomp- son, for a long period of years has been one of the principal workers in the Christian Woman's Board of Missions in the United States, and has travelled extensively throughout the entire country for the purpose of organizing local societies and instructing and assisting in the work of that organization. Her labors have been successful to a marked degree. Other workers, whether directly or indirectly con- nected with the Carthage congregation, have done successful work in other fields than that of the local congregation.
Three societies or associations of the women of this congregation have contributed largely to its efficiency and financial support. These have been known as the Willing Workers, Ladies' Aid, and Carthage Auxiliary of the Christian Woman's Board of Missions.
The Ladies Aid had a membership at first among the middle aged women of the congrega- tion, and the Willing Workers among the younger women of the congregation, but in the course of time this distinction ceased, and one of the main differences has been in methods of work. Each of the societies has been engaged in raising money for the work of the church. The Willing Workers Society was organized in the early part of the ministry of Charles J. Scofield, under the direction and superinten- dency of Mrs. Rose S. Scofield. The member- ship was small at first, but has been gradually increased, and at present comprises a large number of the women of the congregation. Many thousands of dollars have been contrib- uted by these two societies to the work of the local church. The Carthage Auxiliary of the C. W. B. M. is an organization for missionary purposes. It has a large membership. Its work is conducted regularly and systematically. Large contributions have been made to the foreign work through the labors of this auxil- iary. For some years the Carthage Auxiliary has had and supported its own missionary in China, Miss Wenona Wilkinson, and is still sup-
porting her in her self-sacrificing labors in the orient. For some time Mrs. Helen Egbers was the efficient treasurer of this auxiliary, but when her health began to fail Mrs. Rose S. Scofield took charge of the work, and ever since 1905 has been and still is the treasurer. The office of treasurer of this society involves the work of soliciting contributions, of looking after the regular monthly payments of the members, and the responsibility of seeing that funds are raised in these and other ways for advancing the missionary work, and especially for making payment at stated times of the amounts re- quired for the support of Miss Wilkinson. The amount contributed for this purpose was $600.00 yearly until within the last year or two when the amount has been raised to $1,000.00. (The C. W. B. M. has lately been merged with the other missionary societies of the church at large in one organization known as The United Missionary Societies. )
THE WEST POINT CHURCH was organized in 1864, by this denomination under the leadership of David Hobbs. Among the charter members were: Henry Hindle and wife, Elijah Rhodes and wife, David and Almira Wiggle, Mrs. Joseph McMillan, Mrs. Samuel Barber, Mrs. John S. Kelly and Miss Mary Louis. The meetings were at first held in a small schoolhouse. Later services were held successively in the new school- house, the town hall, the Lutheran chapel, and then in 1876, in their own building. John Stark and Joseph Tanner were among the earliest ministers who supported the church.
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF _WYTHE was or- ganized in 1865 by E. J. Lampton. The present membership is about thirty-nine. The prop- erty valuation in 1914 was $1,500.
THE DENVER CHURCH was organized in 1875 by J. C. Reynolds. Thirty-four of the Mt. Pleas- ant church constituted it and were later dis- missed by letter from the parent church. The first officers were: James Black, M. K. Kirk and George M. Browning, elders, with Joseph Dorsey and J. S. McClure, deacons. These are now all deceased. This church has always been strong and aggressive for the upbuilding of the kingdom. The membership is about 185; the Bible Class has an enrollment of about 202, and the church property is held at figures approach- ing $20,000.
THE BURNSIDE CHURCH was formed by J. H. Garrison in 1875. The first members of this church were: Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Pettit, Mr.
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and Mrs. William Bray (aged eighty-seven and eighty-four in 1913), Mr. and Mrs. William Pettit, Mr. and Mrs. Hatch, Joshua Shreeves (aged ninety-two) Mrs. Sarah Decker, D. C. Tyner, with the following four: Mrs. D. C. Tyner, Mr. and Mrs. E. Glaze and Mrs. O. C. Ing.
The present membership is about sixty-eight. The value of the church property is about $2,000. The Bible school, formed in 1875, has an enrollment of about ninety.
THE LA HARPE CHURCH was organized in 1877 by H. P. Tandy. A congregation was formed here as early as 1850, but its life was brief. In March 1877, evangelist G. W. Maples held a successful meeting and the church was organized the following month. Meetings were held in a hall until 1883-4 when the church was com- pleted. There were sixty-two charter members, but some of the names are not now on record. We give the following from the rolls: Mrs. Bary Butcher, Mrs. Adeline Curtis, H. S. Dick- son, Mrs. Mary C. Dickson, M. C. Frits, Zera Kern, Mrs. Sarah Walker, Mrs. Jane Wolf, Mrs. Jane Wilkinson, Mrs. Lottie Warren, Mrs. Mary Barner, E. O. Barner, Harry Barner, Mrs. Emma Warren, Bruce Payton, Mrs. J. F. McAlister, Mrs. Salina Charter, Mrs. Benj. Warren, Mrs. John Warren, Mrs. Mariam Gilman, Joel Brad- shaw, Mrs. Joel Bradshaw, Helen Manifold, Mrs. Helen Manifold, Mrs. Hattie Manifold, James M. Robinson, Mrs. James Robinson, Miss Mabel Warren, George Locke, Mrs. George Locke, Mrs. Jolın Riggin, Mrs. John Sperry, Mrs. Dr. Butler, John Warren, Miss Jane Bradshaw, C. S. Churchill, James M. Isensinger and Mariam Thomas. The present membership of this church is about 333, and that of the Sunday school about 200.
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