The Reynoldsburg Genizah

The 19th century discoveries in the genizah (storage place, preservation) of a Cairo synagogue expanded research vistas in medieval Jewish studies, including the text and tradition of the Hebrew Bible.  Protocol for the disposal of worn-out scrolls and like documents was burial; until then they were stored in the genizah at the synagogue. A close parallel for Christian [...]

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Preaching on the Titanic Disaster

By late April 1912 the reality of Titanic’s sinking set in and Kromer C. Ice had time to reflect.  He prepared his thoughts and held forth in the Sunday evening service, April 29, at the Christian Church in McMechen, West Virginia.  McMechen is a river town, tucked between a hilly ridge to the east and the Ohio River on the west, [...]

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Merry Christmas from the Ice’s

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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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Merry Christmas from the Ice’s

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Right eye, Captain!

A conversation in the Ice house, October 2009: —– Mac: Ella, please pick up your crayons (or something like this). Ella: [saluting] Right eye, Captain! —– I rarely put family stuff like this on this blog, but this is so cute I can’t resist.  We have no idea where she heard ‘aye, aye, captain’ but [...]

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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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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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