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HICKORY GROVE CHURCH CELEBRATES 50TH ANNIVERSARY SUNDAY |
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HICKORY GROVE CHURCH CELEBRATES 50TH ANNIVERSARY SUNDAY |
The Hickory Grove Methodist Church, two and one-half miles between Bismarck and Irondale, will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary with two special services on Sunday, June 9, at 10:30 a.m., and 2:00 p.m., and immediately following the morning service a basket dinner will be served on the church grounds. All members, former members, their families and friends are urged to be present and bring basket dinners which will be spread and served from a community table.
A. C. Bradley, the Sunday School superintendent, will be in charge of the day's program, and he has issued special invitations to all living former pastors of the church to be present on this occasion.
The church was first organized on November 30, 1884 with 22 charter members, the names of which as shown on the church register were as follows:
| Alexander McDowell Elizabeth I. McDowell Lucy J. Horton Mary E. Wood Mary Mills Sarah C. Smith Martha J. Stapp Mary Wood Mary A. Stapp Stephen Denton Charlotte Denton |
Eliza A. Horton John W. Denton William E. Denton Georgia Henry Denton Alfred T. Denton Delia Smith Eliza E. Stapp Wilkins Profitt Stephen P. Denton James Wood Eliza J. Wallen |
It is of interest to note three of those charter members, Mrs. Eliza Jane Wallen Denton of Bismarck, Mrs. Delia Smith Duncan of Farmington, and Mrs. Sarah Smith of California, are still living. The Sunday School and Church services were held in the Hickory Grove Public School building until 1896 when it was decided to build the church on its present site.
Since the church building was dedicated on Sunday, April 12, 1896, children's day exercises have been held annually on the second Sunday in June, and the celebration this year is in commemoration of the old families and those of the present time who realized the importance of religious influence in the community. Since the founding of the church the aggregate membership numbers more than 250, and the present active membership is 35. R. M. Denton, James I. Grenia, and Harry Shaner are trustees at the present time.
The one-half acre site on which the church stands was donated by John Henry Wallen, and the one-acre adjoining was given by Stephen Denton for the church cemetery.
The church building is no longer in existence, but many of the descendants of those founding parents continue to bury their deceased loved ones in the cemetery. A monument was erected and dedicated on July 18, 1976, to mark the place where the Hickory Grove Methodist Church once stood.
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