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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Christian Normal Institute, January 1920

Sometimes kind serendipity kisses you on the lips.  Some of my neatest finds come while I’m looking for something else.  Here is a serendipitous find from the January 20, 1920 issue of Christian Leader.  It is a short newsy item sent in by R. B. Neal about an infant school, Christian Normal Institute, in the [...]

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Genealogical Workshop

Genealogists in the Nashville area will want to know about this event: Located in the buckle of America’s Bible belt, Nashville, Tennessee is home to several major repositories of religious records.  Denominational archives, publishing boards, and local congregations offer a wide array of research opportunities.  In addition to documenting de­nominational histories, religious archives also preserve [...]

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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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Weekend Genealogy

Returning to Ice family history this weekend, I scanned: –several photographs of Isaac and Elizabeth Ice, Andrew Jackson and Mary Ann Roberts Ice, K. C. and Rosa Birdie Sandidge Ice and McGarvey and Ella May Dudley Ice –some pages from KC Ice’s journals concerning his courses and expenses at Hiram College in 1898-1900 –a few items from Franklin University in Columbus [...]

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I keep these handy

The summer of 2009 has been, without question, the busiest research season in my three years at DCHS.  It’s been terrific: lots of people are working on congregational history, personal family history and genealogy, scholarly articles and presentations, theses and dissertations, plus an array of books. In one sense our stacks are my reference shelf, [...]

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DCHS card catalog back online

http://www.discipleshistory.org/catalog/alex.htm Happy searching!

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Save the Paper

Regular readers of this blog know that one of my research interests is Nashville’s Stone-Campbell heritage.  Judging from the folks who find my blog by searching for old Nashville churches like Foster Street Christian Church or Vine Street Christian Church or South College Street Church of Christ, I see I am not alone in my [...]

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TSLA Workshop Materials Available

Just added to the Spoken Word page are one presentation and three handouts from yesterday’s workshop.  ——- I spent a few in the reading room after the workshop.  I will post sometime this week another installment in the Dorris Research Unanswered Question series. ——- If you have not already heard about it, check out this article at [...]

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