![]() ![]() Early on,Ī group of troublemakers was determined to disrupt services and frighten the congregationįrom ever assembling again, but Lonnie Todd was tipped off about the plans and he and Owned by you all there and protected by the Council."Įstablishment of the Church in Lower Oppelo was not without some controversy. the General Council will not own your property but it will be The General Council, it will stop all future troble, so i will close, Of God, at Springfield Mo.) in making Your Deed in cooperation with Successers, in Cooperation with the General Council of The Assemblies (The trustees of the Assembley of God, at Oppolo, Ark, and there Now, in regard to the form of deed, i will give it as follows, Trusting him, now sister just as soon as i can get a chance i willĬome and spend a few days with you all, give my love to all the dear Meeting, as the mines are shut down here and that makes finianceĪ little short, but thank God he is able, Hallulajah so we are To keep things in readiness for the meeting, you all pray for the To begin a meeting Sunday week, and i want to stay here and try You over sunday but i don't see how i can at presant, as we are glad to here from You,īut sorry to say no to you i sure wish i could come and be with ![]() Beula Todd Dear sister in Christ Greetings (Pentecostal) Church, first opening her home to weekly services for the communityĪnd later helping organize the member donations of lumber and land for theĪ letter to Beulah, dated Novemfrom a leader of the Assemblies of Woman, she was instrumental in the establishment of the Oppelo Assembly of God Her from taking an active part in her church and community. Though the wound gave her some pain for the rest of her life it did not prevent (washtub) full of lye soap and water overturned on her leg when she was young. Mary L (-) before 1920, and they lived near Beulah in Oppelo (they laterīeulah suffered from a non-healing ulcerous wound after a boiling iron pot Interest in the Welch land to Lonnie and Beulah in 1907. ![]() Interest in the Welch land to Beulah and Lonnie in that year. Frank Welch hadĭied by 1905, and Dexter married a woman named Cora E. Welch inheritance, paying the delinnt taxes on the land. Beulah and Lonnie had ten children over the nextīeginning in 1894 Beulah and her husband took over the administration of the In 1889 Mary Beulah Welch married the young man next door, James Elonzo The five younger children turned over to the guardianship of neighbor William Nix, was bornįour years later (1885) Amanda was dead, her two eldest children gone and Welch died very soon after the family got to Oppelo.Īmanda was left with young children to raise and a farm to run, so on theĢ9th of September, 1881, Amanda was married to John T. In 1857), and though the family was in Oppelo by that year they wereĮnumerated in Perry County. Welch purchased 120 acres of land in Lower Oppeloįrom Sarah Birge (John Birge had first acquired the land from the government Second daughter, Mary Beulah Welch, was born. In Woodruff County Arkansas, in 1870 with two very young children, a They were living in the community of Deview, near Augusta ![]() Thompson,īorn June 8th, 1847, in Georgia. Hester Anna Amanda Thompson, daughter of Mary Jane Forehand and James H. That was quite the topic for discussion in the family for some time!. The one she produced was a child's baby doll which she dressed in a layette and presented to everyone as the newest addition! I remember when the older cousins would laugh about her, my mother and aunts would reprimand them and tell them she couldn't help it, that she was quite ill. She remained pregnant for well over a year then 'had' the child. May became very mentally unstable (or was always mentally unstable), believing she was pregnant with 'Uncle Tom's' baby. He then married a woman named May and moved to Lower Oppelo. After 'Uncle Tom' and 'Mary L' divorced, he moved into the cabin on my aunt, Josie Myrtle Nix Wear's property and did farm work for them. ![]()
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