Center Point Christian Church

The community that immediately shaped the faith of my Ice ancestors, and in which at least three generations of Ice’s participated, is Center Point Christian Church in Center Point, Doddridge County, West Virginia.  Their involvement in this congregation in the 1850′s and 1860′s is the earliest I can place them, with certainity, in the Stone-Campbell movement.  The origins of this [...]

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Mathes’ Western Preacher on Google Books

More here. On a personal note, my great-great-grandfather, Andrew Jackson Ice, owned a copy of this title as early as the later 1860′s. He would have been then in his early 20′s. His possession of this book and a few others is among the earliest indications I have of the family’s associations with Campbellites.

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Andrew Jackson Ice

A. J. Ice was, like his father, a farmer in and near Center Point, Doddridge County (West) Virginia.  At age 14 in 1861 he enlisted, with his father Isaac, in the Union Army.  And like his parents, he is buried at Center Point Christian Church Cemetery. Andrew and his wife Mary Ann Roberts had six [...]

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Isaac and Elizabeth Ice

I can trace my Ice roots in the Restoration Movement back to my great-great-great grandparents, Isaac and Elizabeth Ice, residents in and near Center Point, Doddridge County (West) Virginia.  They are buried in the cemetery at Center Point Christian Church.  I know next to nothing about them, except that Isaac was a farmer and he enlisted in [...]

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