Wayne County NcArchives Church Records.....Rhodes Monthly Meeting
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S. L. Ellen Crow n/a December 9, 2018, 6:48 pm

History of Rhodes Monthly Meeting
Written by S. L. Ellen Crow
Read at Rhodes Monthly Meeting 12-6-1913

About the year 1855 we have the first knowledge of Friends in this community. 
There was a public school house built about this date known as Union-Academy 
where some of the first Friends preached in passing through. William Cox, 
Sylvanus Tolbert and wife, John L[ancaster] Moore and some others among the 
first. There were no Friends living in the community at that time, only 
occaionally Firends dropped in for a service. Years later the second of tenth 
month 1890 there was an appointed meeting here by John S[anders] Moore of 
Woodland Monthly Meeting who has faithfully kept up his appointments once each 
month. Through all kinds of rough weather, he was prompt to be on hand every 
first-first day of each month; hardly a dozen meetings has he missed in the 23 
years of faithful service for us. 

Some years after the first appointed meeting Marshall H. Pipkin and John W. 
McClenny joined Friends Meeting at Woodland about eight miles east of here. 

About the year 1896 the school house was sold and moved away and replaced by a 
new one. Friends continued holding their meetings under a shelter (at B. B. 
Grantham's Ginn) until the community came together and built a Union Churdh (it 
was called Union-Academy). Soon after, quite a number joined Friends. James W. 
McClenny, Sarah E. McClenny and Needham Crow were among the number that joined at 
this time and others coming in later until we felt the need of a Monthly Meeting, 
which was granted us by Contentnea Quarterly Meeting. J[esse] J[ames] Cox, 
William G. Hubbard, James Jinnette, John S[anders] Moore, Ella Perkins, George 
C[urtis] and Julia Fisk Mendenhall Moore were appointed to attend the opening and 
setting up of said meeting and have charge at same for one year which was set up 
day before first-first day.

Rhodes Meeting derived it's name from the family of Ingram Rhodes who lived near 
the school house and kept his doors open to Friends and invited them to come and 
preach in the school house. Though he was not a Friend, yet he enjoyed the 
messages of love that Friends brought and we believed died in the faith. 

Sometime after the church was built several Friends held a series of meetings 
here. Among them were Barney Perkins, Solomon Woodard, Ada Lee, DeWhit Foster, 
Robert Pelt, J. Thomas Chappell,  Robert Parker, Miliner A[ngel] Cox and others. 
Other denominations failed to keep up regular services (it being Union Church) 
but Friends are still holding their own. Surely the hand of God is good upon us.


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