Photos from Day 2

June 26, 2009, Scott Harp, Tom Childers, and Wayne Kilpatrick, visited some of the following graves: Celia Stone, second wife of Barton W. Stone, buried in Hannibal, MO, Jeremiah Vardeman who is buried near Center, MO, H. M. Osborne, Joel Headington, Sr. and Jr. who are buried near seven miles east of Jacksonville, IL.

Photos from Day 1

These are some of the places Scott Harp, Wayne Kilpatrick and Tom Childers visited on June 25, 2009. This is a five day trip through Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, and Tennessee.

Christian Training Series
July 12-16, 2009
Freed-Hardeman University
www.fhu.edu/CTS

Wednesday at 9:30 a.m.
J.W. McGarvey: A Man for All Seasons - Ancil Jenkins

Friends of the Restoration at Faulkner University

Friends of the Restoration Lectures
Monday, March 2, 2009
Faulkner University







Great Men of the Restoration Movement in Alabama
2:30 PM
Wayne Kilpatrick
The Influence of John Taylor in North Alabama
HP128/130

3:30 PM
Steve Wolfgang
Hymns of the Restoration Movement
HP128/130

4:30 PM
Panel - Open Forum
HP128/130

5:30 PM
DINNER - FRIENDS OF THE RESTORATION
ROT
Raymond Elliott
The Influence of Rex Turner, Sr. in the Restoration Movement in Alabama

Great Trip To Henderson

Just returned from the 2009 lectureship at Freed-Hardeman University. The FOTR sessions on Monday were outstanding. Many thanks to Terry Gardner, John T. Smithson, Jim Gardner & Richard England for their great contributions. The lectures were very effective and informative. I look forward to Faulkner University's sessions in March.

One morning, I ran out to the snap off a few shots of the graves at the Henderson Cemetery again. I had not been aware of Ernest E. Highers, a gospel preacher and the father of Alan Highers, as having been buried there. So while I was there I got the rest of them again.

Here's a tidbit of info. But did you know that in addition to the many talents of N.B. Hardeman as educator and preacher, he also had strong leanings toward engineering. The city of Henderson asked Hardeman to plan the layout for the Henderson City Cemetery. As a token of their appreciation, they give him the choice of plots for which to be buried. The center and highest point is where he is buried.

When "Miss Jo" Hardeman, or "Josie," as he called her, died in 1940, she was first to be laid in the family plot. This is the reason for the brick column at the northwest entrance of the cemetery that has inscribed, "In Memory of Mrs. N.B. Hardeman."

Essary Springs Church Closes

Another chapter in West Tennessee history closes with the recent death of Zora Berryman, one of the last members of the Essary Springs church of Christ.

Earlier, the building was used by A. G. Freed when he started a school in 1892 in Essary Springs called Southern Tennessee Normal College. Later, Freed left the school and became president of West Tennessee Christian College in Henderson. The school in Essary Springs continued for several years. I. N. Rowland, father of C. P. Roland, taught in the school for several years before joining the staff at Freed-Hardeman.


The church sign says "The Birthplace of Freed-Hardeman University 1892"

Apparently, the building was later remodeled and used as public school. Leon Isom, a member of the New Hope church of Christ, remembers walking about 1 1/2 miles to the Essary Springs school in the early 1940s. He recalls that there was one, big room with four classes meeting in each corner of the room. Sometime later, the building was bought and used by the Essary Springs church of Christ.

Mrs. Berryman is on the front and to the far right in the group picture of members from the Henderson church which toured the building in June 2005.




I have been to Essary Springs building several times. Each time Mrs. Berryman would come and open the building and give a guided tour.

The picture at the bottom was taken around 1940.

Freed-Hardeman University Lectureship

Friends of the Restoration at FHU
Monday, Feb. 2, 2009

8-8:40 a.m. - Ayers Auditorium
"Were Elias Smith and Abner Jones Faithful Christians?" - Jim Gardner, speaker

8:50-9:30 a.m. - Ayers Auditorium
"Austin McGary in Context" - Terry Gardner, speaker

9:40-10:20 a.m. - Ayers Auditorium
"Restoration Chronology" - John T. Smithson, speaker

11:30 a.m. - Friends of the Restoration Movement Luncheon
Brown-Kopel Lobby

"Guy N. Woods" - Richard England, Sr., speaker

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Contact Sam Hester for tickets - 731-989-6625

Some Photos from W. H. Bloomingburg

Wendell Bloomingburg taught for many years at Freed-Hardeman. I had him for Bible Geography in 1966. My class went on a Restoration Tour in 1978 and he was the tour guide. He recently lost his wife, Mary, and has since moved into an assisted living facilty in Henderson. His son recently allowed me to have some of his restoration notes and photos. He had framed a photo of brother and sister Larimore. They are photos I have never seen before. He also had some unmarked photos. They appear to be preachers and they may be associated with A. G. Freed's school at Essary Springs.