Hueysville Church of Christ (Bosco Christian Church) Register 1890-1965
1890-1965
Submitted by Richard and Susan Salisbury.
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Interview with Maggie Conley Patton (1913-1987)
Patton discusses being a young woman during the Great Depression, including her chores, games she liked to play, her first job, making clothes, and cooking. She describes men walking to the mines, seeing a car for the first time, having the first television in her neighborhood, learning to play the organ, attending church, and shopping.
June 6, 1979
Submitted by Richard and Susan Salisbury.
Interview with Rondal Hayes
Recording 1: Hayes discusses his family history and shares stories from his childhood. He talks about beginning to teach children at church and describes what religion and prayer mean to him. He discusses what he hopes to instill in the young people he teaches.
Recording 2: Hayes talks about the history of the Hueysville Church of Christ. He discusses the donation of land for the church and its construction, which began in 1909. He talks about the church's ideology, and women in the early days of the church. He describes the first records of the church, the use of the upstairs, his hopes for the future of the church and its current purpose. Hayes discusses the presence of the Ku Klux Klan and early preachers of the church. He describes working at his store (F.P. Hayes General Store) alongside his father.
Recording 3: Hayes talks about his family's experience during the Great Depression. He discusses his father's store and personality. He talks about taking positions in the church and his dislike for preaching at funerals. He describes Alice Lloyd College's involvement in his community, his school building burning down, and the teachers he had as a boy.
Recording 4: Hayes talks about his childhood, including games he played and how Christmas was celebrated. He talks about practical jokes played in Hueysville, shares tales from his father's store (F.P. Hayes General Store), and describes members of the community. He talks about the development of his father's store and the construction of the railroad beside the church.
Recording 5: Hayes talks about Garrett Theater and what he did for fun as a boy. He shares several stories about fox hunting.
Recording 6: Hayes talks more about fox hunting. He discusses his grandmother, fear, coal camp houses, and old practices in coal mining.
June 6, 1979
Submitted by Richard and Susan Salisbury.
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First United Methodist Church of Prestonsburg
Picture 1: First United Methodist Church
Picture 2: First Methodist Church has gone through a number of developmental phases. There was a long period before the Civil War when the congregation was not "Churched" and met in open field, court houses, school buildings, private homes and such places as it could. Then in 1883, thanks to a bequest of land from the heirs of Samuel Davidson, the congregation was able to construct Prestonsburg's first permanent Church building on a lot across from Turner Technologies.
Picture 3: In 1916, a great revival swept through the Church, and ground was broken for a new Church which became our present sanctuary.
Picture 4: The First World War, the Spanish Flu Pandemic, and material scarcity prevented the completion of the structure until April of 1919.
In 1952, the Church was overflowing with children; so the education wing was constructed on an industrial design drawn by local architect George Shannon.
Picture 5-6: In 1988, the congregation made a bold move to construct a Family Life Center to provide a venue in which all of family life might take place within the protection of the Church. This was completed in 1991.
Picture 7: In 1937, Josie Davidson approached the minister of the church and suggested that we should dig the box from the cornerstone of the church and open it. Very wisely, the minister said that would not be possible and instead suggested that an alternative box should be built that could be opened periodically. Accordingly, the church's memory box was built from the original church's alter rails (1883--1920 across from Turner Technology) and materials were sealed in the box for the future. In 2008, the box was unsealed for the first time in 50 years in conjunction with the 125th anniversary of the Anniversary of the completion of our first building. The first picture is a group picture of the congregational celebrants.
Picture 8: Minister Mark Waltz, opening the Memory Box in 2008.
Picture 9: Nancy Webb, lifting the lid of the memory box.
Picture 10: New items placed in the memory box to be sealed.
Submitted by Floyd D. Davis/First United Methodist Church of Prestonsburg Archives
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Kathryn Stumbo Frazier (1915-1998)
Picture 1: Kathryn as a young girl on her pony on the Stumbo Farm at McDowell. Circa 1920.
Picture 2: Kathyrn playing the organ at First United Methodist Church of Prestonsburg, something she did for more than fifty years, as well as teach music at the elementary level. She was the leader of David's Patsy Teenagers, and was married to Chalmer Frazier. Picture was taken in late 1980s.
Item 3: A brief biography of Kathryn Stumbo Frazier written by Floyd D. Davis.
Submitted by Floyd D. Davis/First United Methodist Church of Prestonsburg Archives
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon)
Picture 1: This picture of the members of the Martin Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was taken in 1947 by Alma Ruth Salisbury Edwards.
Picture 2: Pictured in front of the church are members Alafair Flanery, Ellen Flanery Salisbury, Paulie Dingus, Blanche Dingus, Unknown, Unknown, Unknown, and Nancy Dingus
Picture 3: Taken in 1940s, when the church was located in the Cumminsville area of Martin.
Picture 4: Taken sometime in the 1940s in front of the Cumminsville building, with Bill Flanery and his mule, Old Bob.
Picture 5: From the 1957 Church Dedication program for the new building
Picture 6: Taken in 1957, when the church was located across from what is now St Joseph Hospital in Martin.
Picture 7: The Relief Society working on a quilt in April 1972. Pictured from right to left are Alafair Flanery, Polly Dingus, Effie Maggard, Grace Flannery, Goldie Spurlock.
Submitted by Richard Salisbury
Hueysville Church of Christ
Hueysville Church of Christ, taken by Payne Studios in Martin. This building burned down in 1981.
Picture 2: Taken in 1978
Submitted by Susan Patton Salisbury
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Pledges for the construction of First United Methodist Church news clipping, 1916
This 1916 news clipping is from the scrapbook of Penny Fields, from the archives of the First United Methodist Church. It is a record of the pledges offered by businessmen toward the building of First United Methodist Church's original Sanctuary.
1908
Submitted by Floyd D. Davis/First United Methodist Church of Prestonsburg Archives
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History of First United Methodist Church of Prestonsburg
Item 1: Stained Glass Windows - When the contracts were let for First Methodist of Prestonsburg (then the Methodist Episcopal Church, South) the pewage and windows were exempted from the contracts. The Church's building committee contracted with a Cincinnati firm to equip the church's original sanctuary with stained-glass windows of extraordinary beauty. To pay for the windows, memorials were given by the members of certain individuals and windows were dedicated to their memory. Over a several year period, Floyd D. Davis tried to research the histories of the members to whom each window was dedicated. Gary Williams provided the photographic talent needed to capture the windows in their best lights.
The building of the sanctuary began in May 1916. Due to war and pandemics, it was not completed until April 1919.
Item 2: In 2008, to commemorate the church's 125th anniversary, this history of the church was compiled by Floyd D. Davis.
Item 3-4: Monographs written by Floyd D. Davis in April 2010 concerning the history of the church.
Submitted by Floyd D. Davis/First United Methodist Church of Prestonsburg Archives
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First United Methodist Church of Prestonsburg Choir
Picture 1: Wesley and Cherub Choirs, 1963 or 1964
Picture 2: Easter 1963 or 1964 - Chancel, Rhythmic and Wesley Choirs.
Back row: Ernest Hopkins, Arthur Haywood, Johnny Spurlock, Chabner Frazier, Bill Fannin, Philip Haywood, Bill Frazier, Bob Burchett, Print Ball.
6th Row: Freida Dorton, ? Roberts, Peggy Spurlock, Dorothy Wells, Phyllis Ranier, Effie Hoppins
5th Row: Anna May Mellon, Geneva Carter, Carlos Haywood
4th Row: Wesleys-Rebecca, Meg, Jeanie, Marilyn, Kathy, Marsha, and Sally
3rd Row: Unknown, Tommie Sue, Betsy Cottrell, Jenny Archer
2nd Row: Diana Burchett, Janey, Nancy, Johnny Lynn Allen, Pam, Mary Lou, Karen Miller, Unknown, Richard Dorton, Bill Roberts, Johnny Hereford
Rhythmics: Betsy Jo Hall Janny
Picture 3: Wesley Choir
Item 4: News clipping from the Floyd County Times concerning a choir trip to the United Kingdom
Item 5: News clipping from the May 19, 1974 Ashland Daily Independent concerning the choir's performance of selections from "Jesus Christ Superstar"
Submitted by Floyd D. Davis/First United Methodist Church of Prestonsburg Archives