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HEBRON METHODIST
CHURCH
Submitted by Belinda (Brown)
Winston
The Methodist of
this community began meeting in the 1860's in the Gravestown School building, which was
located about one mile east of the present location of Hebron Methodist Church. |
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In 1884, Amanda
Urquhart and Mrs. kate Fraser gave land for the church and cmetery. Mrs. Urquart died in
1887, Mrs. Fraser in 1908. No one knows where the name "Hebron" originated. It
is imagined that the founding fathers of the church selected the name from the Bible.
There is no record of the community being called "Hebron" before the
organization of the church. |
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The first Hebron
methodist Church was built in 1884. The original church building bruned in May 1917. While
the church building was being rebuilt, the congregation met in a brush arbor constructed
in front of where the church now stands. |
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After crops were
layed by that summer of 1917, 3 men of the church got up at 3 a.m. and made a trip by
wagon to Warren. Southern Lumber Co. gave them 3 big loads of lumber to rebuild the
church. The men were Fred Childress, Robert Merrill and Evan Marks. During the summer
months, the men of the community met and built the new church, with the ladies bringing
food to serve. The new building was near enough completed by cold weather that fall to
begin having services in it. |
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The first church
had two front doors, with three rows of seats, two isles. The new building has double
front doors with one isle in the center of the church. The present church has had
additions of 3 Sunday School rooms, then a fellowship room with a kitchen and 2 bathrooms.
later a metal building was purchased and put behind the fellowship room for more class
rooms. a concrete porch, with cover has also been added. Siding has been put on the
outside of the church. |
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Inside, paneling
has been added over the beaded ceiling on the walls. A very inspirational tent meeting was
remembers as being held around 1920. A large tent was set up on the grounds of the church,
with a large crowd of people coming on horseback and by wagon. |
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Hebron was
originally part of the New Edinburg Circuit. Later was taken into the Kingsland Circuit. |
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L.C. Gatlin was
pastor of the church when it burned. Some of the other pastors that were remembered were:
Hugh Revely, H.A. F. Ault, John Simpson, W.T. Bone, W.D. Golden, C.R. Andrews, Harold
Scott, Richard Poss, W.C. Almstead, James Beck, Edgar Outlaw, L.C. Wax, Robert Johnson,
Elam Turner, William Paul Woolley. The last two each served 10 years. |
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Some of the
first members of Hebron Methodist Church remembered were: Mrs. Kate Fraser, Mrs. Amanda
Marks Urquhart, Sampson Rogers, John Jones Mitchell, J.L. Mitchell, Frank Owens, Ellen
Jane Mitchell, Will Owens, Helen Rogers, Sarah Graves, J.E. Davis, Anna Lee marks, Amelia
Marks, Melissa Marrill, kathryn Tolfree Marks, William Wolf, John W. Lavillian, Susan
Carson Morgan, Jackson Hamaker, Fannie Marks, H.S. Harris, Arkansas Rogers, S.M. Owens,
Maggie Graves and L.A. Childress. |
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