Sixty-nine years ago today, the ground was broken for the beautiful stone Christ Episcopal Church, one of the most attractive in the city…While the ceremonies were going on, the kid on the corner looking on with a dirty face was me…
Churches
Dedication of Kingsley Chapel
At the request of the Trustees of Methodist Episcopal Church, in Grant (formerly Proctorsville), Lawrence County, Ohio, we had the pleasure of dedicating and consecrating the new and elegant church edifice in that place, last Sabbath, the 26th inst.
Rev. William H. Tope
William H. tope, is the son of John H. and Mary Frances (Huron) Tope, and was born near the village of Patriot, Gallia county, O., Feb. 21, 1871. He was reared in the environment of a Christian home and a pioneer country
First Baptist Church in Burlington, Ohio
First Baptist Church Burlington Ohio
Rev. Jacob Young
Jacob Young was born March 19, 1775, and thus began life a little over four months before the United States of America came into existence. The site of
Quakers, Mennonites and Omish History
You may recall, the first real settlement of Quakers in the Northwest and in what is now Ohio, was made at Quaker Bottom, now Proctorville, Ohio.
Quakers in Southern Ohio
As readers of these columns know, we have referred quite often in the past to the early settlement of Friends, commonly known as “Quakers” on the site now occupied by the village of Proctorville, Ohio.
Quaker Bottom History
Some 50 miles up the river, at the most southern part of Ohio, at a place known as Quaker Bottom, a very large and interesting meeting was held
St. Joseph Catholic Church
IR June 2, 1887 The laying of the cornerstone of St. Joseph’s church has been put off until the 26th of June, which date has been agreed upon if it will
Christ Episcopal Church Confirmations
Episcopal Church Records, Ironton, Ohio
Confirmations 1903 -1911
Ironton, Ohio
Christ Episcopal Church Baptisms
Christ Episcopal Church Ironton, Ohio Baptisms 1897 – 1911
St. Mary’s Baptisms 1842-1937
Baptisms 1842 – 1937
St. Mary’s Catholic Church Records of Baptisms –
Pine Grove Furnace
Submitted by Robert Kingrey
Ironton’s Early Churches 1872
The churches are among the most vital and important of the community’s interests. Their influence is widely extended and their benefits like the blessings of light, air, and water, are so common that scarcely any notice is taken of them. We speak from a Second Street Standpoint. Churches are good in themselves. Commerce, Manufacture and Society partake of their advantages and hardly an idle recognition of their sources of how their dissemination is maintained.
Lucinda Baptist Church
The above picture shows a group at the Lucinda Chapel Baptist Church, Lawrence Co., Ohio, ca. in the late 1890s. The lower left, home of John and Lucinda (Webb) Jones on Wolf Creek (built ca.1810)....
Ohio Baptist Church History
One of the oldest churches in Ohio Baptist Church, located at Union Landing. The church was organized on 2 Oct 1804, with the first services held in different homes.