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Urbana Church Centennial Service Remembers Historic Past
Urbana Methodist Church marks its centennial with a Sunday sermon by Bishop James H. Straughn retired, assisted by Rev. Dr. Asbury Smith and others. An 7:36 p m sermon by Rev J Elmer Benson follows, with weeklong programs led by Dr Douglass Chandler Rev G T Loar and more as excerpts from a church history recount the 1833 origins and early efforts to build the first Urbana church Ebenezer and its expansion.
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James H. Straughn
Washington
Urbana Methodist Church
Asbury Smith
William C. Harnold
Jd. W. Briscoe
J. Elmer Benson
Douglass Chandler
Westminster Theological Seminary
G. T. Loar
Harpold
Urbana
Richard Thompson
Wesley Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church
Ebenezer
Buckeystown
Evan Thompson
Z. T. Windsor
Jno. Montgomery
Charles Hendry
Jacob Kesler
Henry Lugenbill
Mary Ryan
Margaret A. Dorsey
Mathilda Cronenburg
Caroline Sucket
Mary Sucket
Faier Sucket
Larch Anderson
Mary C. Windsor
Dir. Langley
L. W. Langley
M. Boyer
W. C. Weeks
W. J. So