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- ItuA Name, What is There in It?About the year lS-tO 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. Achurch was organized by those pioneer preachers at the residences of the above named Cumminses andmeetings were continued to be heldin their homes until 1852, when the citizens of the school district joinedtogether and built a school house,which they thought sufficient to holdmeetings in. For the erection of thathouse James Cummins gave $100, Woodson having died in 1845. By the building of this school house the resident citizens were relieved of theburden of having public meetings in their bed-rooms. In the year 1861 Overton Cummins and others conceived the idea of building a chureh-i house. This church when organized was named the Fall Creek Christianchurch. At a later period, some one thought to build a church in Middletown would only be a proper act. jThe church at Middletown when eom-j pleted had to be named, and it wasccalled 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.iIsaac H. Gcstin.
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Middletown News
Middletown, Indiana, US
Fri, Oct 14, 1904
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