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By CARL FRANCIS
From time to time I have heard
of the ancient "Ebenezer Chapel"
at Webfoot. When I came upon
what I thought to be it recently,
I felt the thrill of discovery that
Balboa must have felt when he
saw the Pacific Ocean. Here, I
believed, looking down upon the
county road from the Charles
Carr property, in this ruin of age
and poison oak, is this great mon-
ument of missionary effort. The
legends I had received were that
this was the "Ebenezer Chapel."
Not so, I later learned. But
what is there is indeed a monu-
ment to missionary effort, and
regrettably, a forgotten one.
Only because I was preparing
a talk on local history to young-
sters at Champoeg Park this sum-
the Mount of Vision. He also
built the first church in the vi-
cinity of Dayton about 1857,
which was long a regular appoint-
ment of the Yamhill Circuit, and
now merged in the Webfoot
Church. Its name was "Ebenezer
Chapel."
Under a sub-chapter "First
Things at Dayton," the author
writes:
"The first Sunday school in
Dayton was organized in 1859. At
the quarterly conference held
June 4th of that year, the pastor,
Luther T. Woodward, reported:
'Dayton Sunday School consists of
seven teachers and forty scholars.
W. H. Odell is superintendent.
This is the first Sunday School
in Dayton.'
"There were four other Sun-
mer did I again focus my own at-, day schools in the circuit at that
tention to this part of our his- time, namely, Ebenezer Chapel,
tory, finding it, as I searched it, Unionvale, Amity and Hopewell."
one of increasing interest, going The belief that the decaying
back to the primitive Oregon so- building at Webfoot is the old
ciety of a hundred and twenty- church is belied by history, but
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1973
ble, opened it up on top of the
little organ and lit the leaves. In
the morning a heap of ashes was
all that remained of the little
church. The visible results that
had come from the expression of
Christian love and sacrifice in
building a house Of worship in
the beautiful Webfoot grove
seemed to have suffered defeat
at the hands of liquor crazed
youths. But the courage that
prompted the building of that
chapel did not suffer defeat. The
next year during the pastorate of
T. L. Jones, Mrs. Gilkey mounted
a horse and rode from house to
house getting subscriptions for
the erection of a new building on
the site of the one that had
burned. The people rallied nobly.
Before the close of that year, a
new house of worship had been
erected at a cost of one thousand,
one hundred and sixty three dol-
lars and seventy-five cents. The
heaviest givers were Abraham
Coovert, the donor of the land,
and A. L. Aldeman. Each gave
five hundred dollars."
On the ancient premises of
"Ebenezer Chapel" stands a ven-
erable monument to these early
THE DAYTON TRIBUNE, DAYTON. OREGON -- PAGE 5
Hopewell Evening
Home Extension To
Meet October 15
"The Teahouse of the October
Moon" is the theme of the Oct.
15 meeting of the Hopewell Eve-
ning H o m e Extension study
group. The meeting will be at the
Maguren residence, Monday eve-
ning, at 7 p.m.
Officers of the group are Mrs.
Sharyl Michael, chairman; Mrs.
Ruth Ann Shirk, secretary; and
Mrs. Eleanor Maguren, historian.
Special guests will be Mrs. Me-
nine Strode, Yamhill County Ag-
ent, and Mrs. Evelyn DeGordin,
chairman of the County Commit-
tee.
Chopsticks will be in order for
the evening, to sample the re-
sults of the lesson "Chopstick
Cookery." On display will be art,
music, costumes, dishes and oth-
er artifacts from the Orient.
If you are interested in getting
more information, telephone one
of the officers of the Hopewell
Moonlighters Extension S t u d y
group.
five years ago and more, a twink- it is a monument which really
ling of an eye in history, but one should not be forgotten. Again Christian pioneers. In the grave-
which has shown such great lo- referring to "Mileposts in Dayton site beside it many lie. In fur-
cal change. Then this was pioneer Progress from 1866 to 1900" we ther columns of "Sidelites" will
country. But to that country came read: be written other articles about
John Odell, whose early church 'That year (1878) a new Web-such missionaries, sacrifices and
activity was equal to the times, foot church was constructed on historical persons.
"Camp Meetings" and "Circuit the campground. It was supplied
Riders" attempted to serve the with furniture, including a small
area. Our good historian Ruthorgan, the first the church has
Stoller has furnished me with a possessed and one they took
copy of the writings of "Dates much pride in, and a great pulpit
and Deeds of Dayton Circuit"; as Bible. But the building was nev-
early as 1843, camp meetingser completely finished or dedicat-
were had. ed. Just before the Conference,
Here, near Dayton, was "Eb- held in September 1878, the new
enezer Chapel." In the book, "Be- building was totally destroyed by
side the Beautiful Willamette" fire. Rev. Sails had made some
published by the Metropolitan strong statements that incensed
Press, Portland, Oregon (1924), certain young men of the neigh-
copyrighted and written by John borhood. They rode to Dayton
Parsons, he tells: after the evening service and
"John Odell, who settled near after standing about the Saloon
Dayton in 1851 * * * was alive for a time, had imbibed sufficient
"fire water" to make incendiary
motives an easy possibility. They
borrowed saddle horses tied at
the town hitching post and rode
back across the fields to the new
church house. The two intoxicat-
ed young men took the great Bi-
to the awful need of God, and
did what he could to supply it.
He built a church near his home
in Indiana, which was used as a
place of worship for more than
forty years. The name of the
church was "Nebo "Chapel" after
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and three great-grandchildren.
Two children preceded him in
death: a son, Dewey, was killed
in action while serving with the
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ter, Irene, at age 4.
ESTHER RICE CIRCLE HOSTED
BY MRS. JULIA KEFFER
The Esther Rice Circle met last
Thursday at the home of Julia
Keffer of Lafayette. Co-hostess
was Mrs. Verna Hedgecoke. Mrs.
Ida Owens had the lesson on
"When You're Sorrowful," and
Mrs. Shirley Dittmer had the mis-
sionary emphasis. There were 12
members present. Delicious re-
freshments were served during
the social hour.
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