The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-07-01

VS. appointed, Whp reported laNoFhbiy,
aud Suggested that a contribution of five
cents per holar, in the Sunday Schools Of
OF the cyul,y, would erect plain lnemoFi-l
and the report was adopted.
The following schools have sent in contri-
buttons:
Rose Bank I'D. X. Fitzgerald I" :. 90
Ches City I'res........T. b. Hopper %
Port Deposit NJ. Ed M. MeClenahan". is 90
Jackson .....Annie Scott, :" 80
Ebenezer " Daniel Hawk -. 10
Rising SIM " ...... w. W Carter, " =. ~
Montgomery 800. il. "a hayes e. -
Zion Presbyterian. .....J. NJ. q. Carhart . 90
Bay yiew...............loln Johnson. " E. %
The committee desires to thank these
schools who have so promptly and so liber
ally responded, and earnestly requests "a
the schools who have been notified to send
in their contributions if convenient during
the month OF June. Yours Truly.
JAMES MCCAULEY,
Leeds, Cecil Co., Nd.
The following interesting historical sketch
was addressed By the committee TO the S
Superintendents:
TIE FIRST SUNDAY SCHOOL IN CECIL
COUNTY.
About the beginning of the present
tury, Rev. John Wilson, 4 minister of the
church known as independents came over
from Leeds, England, to assist tie Cecil
Manufacturing Company, then recently
organized on the little Elk Creek, in Cecil
county, for the manufacture OF fine cloth
to which business, MIR. Wilson had served
au appreu tceship in England.
The Company not succeeding, Wilson
ught the property usxt above on the
creek, and built Il Wooden Factory, which
he called New Leeds, (now Harlan's
paper MILD and succeaieI very we'll during
the War of 1912 With he assistance of
hs neighbors. Mr. Wilsoa built the stone
church. now standing, about the year 1872.
| aud gathered considerable congregation
to whom be preached on Sundays. He had
| a pleasant voice, with little of the York.
shire dialect
1t was here that his daughter, Miss
| Suah Wilson, organized Sund y School
| in 1916 being the first in the County, if
not in the State, EheneZar ID. McGlen ahan
now living at the age of eighty six years,
was one of her scholars, and the only one
now living
At a convention of the Sunday schools
of the county at Rising sun. o tobsr 2nd,
1891, the subj act of a memorial 10 Miss
| Sarah Wilson came up, and a Committee
was appointed, wLo reported tavorably,
and suggested that u contribution of five
cents per scholar, il the Sund y schools
| of the county, would cree : pain nem
orial, and the report was adopted. After
ward committee appointed to ascer-
tain if there W as any earlier Sunday school
in the county.
| Mr.. McClenahan was present, and rep
resented that he attended Miss Wilson 5
| Sunday school in 1916 and 1917 and he
is satisfied that it the tirst in the
| county; that it numbered from 30 to 10
scholars; that all through mis- life the re
| memberauce of TIE school, and Christian
character of its founder, was a pie tssnt
recollection and he feels it his duty to do
| something to perpetuate her memory
The committee to make inquiry as to any
! prior Sunday school in Cecil county being
satisfied there was none, the following
committee was appointed ut the Sunday
School Convention, at Bay View, for the
purpose of making arrangements for raising
the means required: Rev. James b. Jones
Bay View; James McCauley, Leeds, and 5.
T. Woodrow, Liberty Grove.
The said committee now presents the
suIiact to the Sunday schools of the
county, that each may have an opportun-
itv to make 4 small contribution it they
see proper.
From the 80 or 10 scholars attending the
first school, the number has incre lssd to
thous Inds. and from one school, 10 a
number approaching one hundred. No
person doubts but that the result mas been
beneficial and is worthy of memorial tC
the memory of Miss Wilson.