Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-06-08
By c. B. RAY

ployed that he took unto himself
another wife-a GAINESVILLE lady.
They purchased property back of
Malta Mrs. Dunlap only lived few
months after coming to Morgan
county. After her death Charley
sold out and went back to Zanes-
Vile We hear reports, but we are
only writing history. Charley was
a stone mason until stone work went
out of style, then. he worked in con-
crete. Our informant tells us
Charley was a good mason. 1t seems
the stone mason swings his PICK
with a slow motion, but Charley
swung his fast.
The Christian Church In Bristol
The old log meeting house on the
Whitehouse farm was the forerun-
ner of the Meigs Christian church.
| The society which met in the log
church afterwards used two story
building that stood in the south
west corner of the Meigs cemetery.
While helping the late G. B. Carnes
dig the Mabel Alcock grave, we took
out some ofthe foundation stone OF
this old building. The building at
| first was two stories, one story be-
/ ing used for church services, and
! the other as hall where pubic
meetings were held. Later the
building was reduced to enc story
by taking the under story out ana
| letting the upper story down on the
/ foundation. Later this building
was burned.
| We are copying from manu-
script we wrote some three or TOUR
years ago At that time we wrote as
/ follows. While no one ever spoke
! the name out loud in our hearing,
of the person thought responsible
! for the fire, it was told it was burn
ed for spite, as there was a dls-
agreement among the church folks.
Since writing the above we nave
heard the name of the accused. AS
j the said accused has long since fold
ed their arms and gone back to dust,
we feel the name should go into the
/ forgotten past also. AS the names
of those who made history in these
organizations are found in the Or
ganization known as the Melgs
/ Christian church, we will not pencil
/ them at this time, but give them
later.
The Christian church is split off
of the Presbyterian church. AS we
stated in the history OF the HACK
ney Catholic church, in the Demo-
crat of May 18, 1888, Alexander
Campbell, the founder of the church
came to America with John O'Neil.
Mr.. Campbell settled at Bethany,
w. Va, where he not only gave TO
the world his idea of the way 10
worship, but also started the Beth
any college which for many years
was a training school for preachers
of that denomination only. AT TINS
time we believe they accept any
student who has the cash to pay
their tuition and other courses.
But back to the Meigs church. We
are unable to give the date of the
burning of the old church. We tind
the present building was erected IN
1855. The building, with the eX-
ception of some changes inside and
roofing, is the same as when built.
Early and perhaps charter members
included the following: Adams,
Parmiter Andrews. Later came the
Whitneys, Matsons, Wilson's, L1ndl-
mores, Bowens. The preachers have
been many and varied, some hlghly
| educated and some not so much so.
In the beginning, the high note In
their preaching was baptism (lm-
mersion). But today, the big
churches of this creed are stresslng
living as an important part OF the
program. No record off preachers
of the Meigs church is in existence,
so far as we can find. We think OF
White. the Moodys, Andrews, Kyle,
! Pierce, Pickens, Black, Van W1nkle,
Kendle, J. A. Goddard, Osgood. We
feel we do not want to close this
section without saying more about
| one of these men, S. Z. Moody, VINO
| preached here in our boyhood ana
can still preach to suit us. or course
he is old fashioned-but true
Christian gentleman; learned to the
| extent he is hard to follow, for those
who do not read and think only
when they go to church. AT the
present time the church is without
preacher. Another man we
should mention-Chas. NORM, who
as we write this is at the point OF
death, at his home in Malta. Char
ley NORM we believe has preached
more funeral sermons than any man
who has ever been resident Of the
county. A lifelong resident of the
county, he could call more people by
their name than any other resident.
In conversing with our friend
Late Lindimore today, he mentioned
many events connected with Bristol
| life of his boyhood and young man
hood, that we hope to make part of
our writing in coming sections.
| Speaking of funerals brings to our
mind that several monuments in the
Meigs cemetery are leaning badly.
This is not a very good advertise
ment for monument dealers who set
the stones and who are still in the
business.
1t is surprising how many people
we inquire of, do not know
about their ancestors. Many of our
young readers who attend the pic
ture shows probably never heard of
the forerunner of the moving pic
tures-the magic lantern show. In
our boyhood, about so often some
one would come along and get the
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