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Some Local Htatory—1S19.It was this year that Mc-Kendree Chapel was built, a good hewed log house, with a shingle roof, good plank floor, windows, etc. It was the first substantial and finished meeting house built by us in Missouri by the hands of regular workmen. and was commenced and completed this year with special reference to the first Annual ('on*ferenee ever held on the west side of the Mississippi river. Itstands two miles east of Jackson. and eight miles west of Cape tlirardeau* in a camp ground hallowed by the recollections of happy hundreds, who have there been born again to sing redeeming love’*.Rev, John Seripps, then pastor.The Chapel is still standing, the oldest meeting house in the state, and is an appointment on the Jackson Circuit. The Annual Ciinference hold four sessions there. 1811), 1821, 182*5, 18111.° Wnodurd’s Annuals of Methodism in Missouri.
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Jackson Herald
Jackson, Missouri, US
Thu, Jan 31, 1907
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