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- ; tA Name, What is There in It?About the year 1S40 or earlier,| William Hubbard, William Hendrix, Rev. Snethen, the barefooted preacher, and others of the Christian denomination, called and held meetings at the residences of James Cummins, and Woodson Cummins, father of the late Overton Cummins. A church was organized by those pio-! neer preachers at the residences of the above named Cumminses and meetings were continued to be held in their homes until 1852, when the citizens of the school district joined together and built a school house, which they thought sufficient to hold I meetings in. For the erection of that house James Cummins gave $100, Woodson having died in 1845. By the building of this school house the resident citizens were relieved of the burden of having public meetings in their bed-rooms. In the year 1861 Overton Cummins and others conceived the idea of building a church-i house. This church when organized was named the Fall Creek Christian church. At a later period, some one thought to build a church in Middletown would only be a proper act, jThe church at Middletown when com-j pleted had to be named, and it wasc __called Fall Creek, the name of the old church. The nucleus of the old church we call Bristol, but it is more entitled to the distinction of the ! Cummins church.Isaac H. Gcstin.
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Middletown News
Middletown, Indiana, US
Fri, Oct 14, 1904
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