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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1940
Page
6
Chauncey Church of Christ plans Sept 8 festivities marking the centennial with homecoming and the 25th pastor anniversary. An exhibit will display church and class pictures, old records, and the original lease for the Old Brick Church. Descendants of charter members and former attendees will participate throughout the day.
Chauncey Hig gins Nye son of Mr and Mrs Floyd Nye recently graduated from the College of Osteopathy and Surgery at Kirksville Missouri and has been with Dr R B Beyer in Checotah Oklahoma He visits his parents wife Edith and children Diane and Kenneth IJ at the Nye home and plans to move within two weeks to Shelbyville Tennessee with his family.
A group gathers in reserved seats with charter members listed as Lucy Weethee Isaiah Davis Anna Davie Phoebe Davis Judith Nesmith Lydia Nye Elizabeth Fulton Joel Saunders Tamer Rice Joseph Pugsley Olive Pugsley and Julia Ann Pugsley. Alexander Campbell is noted among notable past church servants.
Chauncey District social notes list Mr. and Mrs George Sofranco Jr hosting dinner with Mr. and Mrs John Potts Adrian Michigan and Mr. and Mrs Cecil Perry visiting Mrs Frank Barnhart and family in Salem. Labor Day trips take DeWitt Walker through several states and Cumberland Gap. Other guests include Wilbur Hammond Leonard Hammond and child of Columbus with Lee Dowler. Grover Patton Millfield with Woodrow Patton. Sandra Lu Sanders and family from Millfield. Charles Tracey Columbus visiting Minnie Willis. Ervin Sanders Columbus visiting Clarence Sanders in Millfield.
Velma King and daughter Arlene of Cleveland visited her parents Mr and Mrs William Lanning Murray City and Harley Lanning at Millfield. The Lannings attended Rolland Nutter's funeral in New Lexington. Mazon Council Degree of Pocahontas hosts a Sept birthday potluck after tonight's meeting.
Annual North family reunion gathered in Chauncey at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John McConaha on Labor Day. A basket dinner followed by social time drew many relatives from Chauncey and nearby towns including Marion Amesville Glouster Pataskala and Cambridge with numerous Vanhorn, Waymer, Ball, Tittle, Green, and McConaha family members in attendance.
A Millfield gathering at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chester L. Sanders honored Chauncey Sanders on his 80th birthday Tuesday night. Relatives and friends shared gifts and refreshments of ice cream cake and coffee.
Mr and Mrs Clarence Mullins Mr and Mrs James Mullins Ben Mullins and George Mullins of Chauncey with Adam Brinson Lancaster spent Labor Day weekend in Kentucky visiting their mother’s brothers aged 78 80 and 82. They visited James Egerton Milton George Egerton Bedford and Ben Egerton Taylorsville.
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