The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-01-04

receiver of the land office, acted as ,
lay reader.
First Members.
The FIRST families who Joined Will
the church here were Mr. and Mrs {
NJ Barnes and Miss Bessie w II
HlakemCre, w II Cannon, Judge and |
Mrs j II Cotteral T w + Crozier
Edgar w Jones. w c McCMng, John
Cattle, Chas Metz, f A Corlett, Mrs
n A Burns, Mr. and Mrs Frank II
Greer, A G Grissell Frank Cannon
Geo Baghurst, y Hart, r X John
son, f B Lille, Elizabeth Lille, Har
rleu May Tyler Arthur Peck Tyler
II II Tyler, d s Mckay Stewart Nc
Hay, Cal Ilorner and family, II C
Nicholson and family, Geo Orner and
Wife, A j Spengel, Veder b Paine and
family, w Sutton and family, Silas
Scely and family, Horace Speed, II
flavinghOrst, Mrs Ruth Baldwin, A &
c Bierer Willard Stapleton, J l. Tur-
her, Mr. and Mrs Chas White, Frank
White II Gochenor Nathan and Mary
Glbert, Geo Gilbert and family, f l.
Hallock, G c Magam J A Baker, ia
cob Corbett, w L Searcy, Mr. and Mrs
j G Strang, Miss Maud Birch, y II
Ilainer and wife. John Hale and wife,
Mrs l. B Shapland, VIM Hodges, Mrs
Blanche DUNCAN, Geo Billngsley and
wife Chas Billngsley and others.
First Baptized.
The first person baptized was
Blanche Elizabeth Little, Sept 10,
1870, The second was Mrs Blanche
Greer deceased The sponsors were
Mrs M " Barnes, Mrs Il d Nix, Mrs.
" II Baxter, w NJ Allison, Mrs f B
Lizzie. and Mrs II c Nicholson
The first confirmation was held
Sc t %, 1880. The class included Mrs
A j Spengel, Miss Blanche Little
MS Kate Nicholson, Mrs Emma Hart.
Mrs Annie Walker, w NJ Allison, Mrs
Elizabeth Lillie, Mrs Blanche Greer
and Mis- Maud Richards.
he name Of c VI Barnes is listed
as the first communicate
First Weddings.
The first marriage took place at
Cannons hotel, West Side, Oct 3, 1881
4 I'c7 II = Jefferson, officiating. The
/ rt church marriage took place
/ haater Sunday, 1892, the contracting
| ia ces being Drury T Malone and
! Mss Bartella Bullard, boih of Chnnd =
I loI Notable church weddings were.
| Amy H Paine and Herbert N Leonard
Lee %, 1885; Capt James NJ Wheeler
and Miss Dell Seely, June ., 1896:
John j Hildroth and Ms Lille NJ
Campbell, Aug 23 1896 w Florence
Tucker and Florence IIadley, Aug 2S,
1889 James Stewart Mckay and
Sarah Ella Hutchinson, Nov t. 1900:
g E Billingsley and Iva Zoe Kimball
! June 25, 1901.
The first church funeral was held
in 1891, deceased being Mrs Emma
Beck, living with Mr. aNd Mrs Geo
Ford. Other funerals 1891 to
1894 were, A G Bagg, Ms F R Nc
kennon, Mrs Ruth Ann Hand, Mrs
Annie j Allison, Mrs Mac Hamilton
Coombs, Archibald Grissell. Francis
Ann Smith, Mrs Jessie Adams Speed,
Mrs Mary Strang, Leon Ballard Shap-
land
During all these years. Rector
Nicholas has stood manfully at the
helm His record of marriages, bur
ials and services fill large volume
and those who affiliated with him
were closely identified with the found
ing and growth OF the town; in fact
the record of their lives is, in part,
a history of the city.
Among those who have materially
az sisted in placing the church on a
sound financial footing are II n Agr.
? b Iill,e, Arthur Tyler, DR. C S
Petty, Mrs HaviGyhogst, Mrs Billings
ley and many Others
Rector Nicholas issued the follow
ing today: xi9.s
Next Sunday will be red letter
day in this ord mother Episcopal
church, II has been largely identified
with the growth of Oklahoma. espe-
clally in the period that Guthrie was
| the capital OF course, the Indian
c'apels under the. bishop of Arkansas
and the good work done by the breth
ren OF all christian bodies ha come
up before God. These pioneers turned
Ap the hard sod with thoir gospel
plows. Bishop Brooke next Sunda,
celebrates his twenty fifth anniver-
sary CT Epscc- al work in Oklahoma
and the Indian Territory. And viii
add to this occasion the consecratior