Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1942-04-23

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the lodge out.
The following, which was fur
nished us by Mrs. Justice. while
giving no dates is very interesting,
but let us stop here to tell you
about Mrs. Justice, who will be SO
in July-is a wonderful woman,
whose memory is par excellent.
While charter member of the re-
organized church, which was an
event of ---, she was not resi-
dent of the village until her mar
riage to the late Charles Justice,
whom we will tell you about later.
Here is the article as prepared by
Mrs. Justice:
The Church of Christ, sometimes
known as the Christian church, Is
one of the old land marks of Stock
port. 1t was constructed when
Stockport was called Windsor, and
the grand and great grandparents
of Stockport residents of today
were members. 1t was the first,
and for many years the only church
here, and was built prior to the
Civil war. The second story which
was once owned by the l. 0. o. F.,
is now owned by the church and
serves as a social room where class
es entertain and other social func-
tions are held. The church would
not be taken as one of the Oldest
buildings in the village, as it has
been kept in repair.
BY a letter from Mary A. Evans
638 Sixth street, Marietta, O., we
have a list of the members she re-
members: Elders of the church at
this time are Kenneth w. Barnes
Leonard Rardin, David Van Fossen
and John Rogers; clerk, Mrs. Har
ry Cross. AS to the early preach.
ers, Mrs. Evans gives us the follow
ing that she remembers who served
the church: Elisha White, John
Beard, Rev. Harvey (father) Aurel-
ius Harvey (son), Lewis Thomp.
son, Cyrus Thompson (brothers)
John Moody, Nathan Moody
(brothers), Daniel Sweeny, from
West Virginia, Enoch Dye, McCon
nelsville, and John Vernon, Malta
No doubt when you read this you
will think of others. Somewhere
in Holy Writ, Christ said ION this
rock will l build my church" We
find that in many instances the Of
ficials of the churches have been
very careless in the transaction of
the business of the church. If this
church has deed for the property,
it's whereabouts is not known to the
officials and members here. We
find it is not on record at the re-
corder's office. Doesn't it seem
funny that folks will request and
save receipts for small payments
of their own bills. and then be so
lax in regard to matters of public
interest? Please do not misunder-
stand us, we are not finding fault
with this church, only as it concerns
the present and future, and this is
not the only church where we have
found this condition. In fact in all
our searching of records we have
only found two church organiza
tions with records any way nearly
complete. For the present we will
leave the record Of this church with
the hope that more of it's history
may come to light later.
At this time we want to tell of
the beautiful homes in Stockport.
Many of the homes were built back
in the time where timber was both
plentiful and cheap, then later have
been remodeled and kept nicely
painted. While the mayor has not
appointed a cleanup week, the home
owners and tenants have been busy
raking and burning trash that had
accumulated during the winter. Lat
er we will show you pictures OF
many of these homes. So far we
have only noticed one house that
looked like a fire hazard, and dis
grace to the village. II you have
not been interviewed regarding the
cut of your home before you read
this, see us. If you own property
here and are interested in building
UP the village, write us If there is
any event of the past regarding the
village, or. township, which you
want included in our writing tell
us and we will hunt up the story.
Ito be continued)