For several years the church was without a minister, but from 1915 to 1917, the Rev. William
Latting Merrin served as stated supply pastor. A native of Memphis, where he was born November 7, 1887, Merrin was a graduate of Southwestern and its divinity school, and served pastorates
in Mississippi, Texas, Florida, and Kentucky. His last pastorate was in Bristol, Tenn., where he
died August 21, 1963.1
By 1916, the annual summer communion service had become a revival or protracted meeting.
Quarterly communions had replaced the old sacramental seasons, but the preaching missions continued. It went without saying that these Presbyterian occasions were evangelistic, but the ministers refrained from appeals to raw emotion, characteristic of revivals in other communions. The
flavor of the services is evident in this minute from the elders’ book:
“Session met Sept 20th & 21st 1916. During a revival service at our church, conducted by Rev J. E.
Hobson, D.D., of Water Valley, Miss., Minnie Jane Ross & Ray Stockard Saunders were received
in full communion & fellowship in the Church on profession of their faith in Christ. William Ross
Merrin, infant, was baptized.”
Women were active in the lives of Mississippi churches from their inception, but organized women’s work was often slow in making its appearance. The year 1917 is the first in which the
existence of a Ladies Aid, as the organization later known as the Women of the Church was noted
in the records of Hopewell. The little group claimed seven members, but from its inception was
an engine of fundraising. The ladies, few of whom were employed for remuneration outside the
home, contributed $25 to the Church’s benevolent work. Mrs. J. M. Saunders was president.
When the session met in October 1917, the clerk noted that “Mildred Kimmons, infant, was baptized.” Miss Kimmons, who never married, would be one of the church’s most stalwart members.
A neighbor, she was devoted to the little congregation until the end of its and her own life. A few
years later, the session met during the services of the sanctuary, and received Margaret Grace
McCorkle & Mildred Kimmons “on confession of their faith in the Son of God, Jesus Christ, as
their personal savior.”2 Margaret Grace would be the church’s historian and Mildred its treasurer.
In the summer of 1918, as the country was embroiled in the European theater of what was then
called the Great War, Hopewell Church unanimously called Rev R. H. Latham as Pastor. Robert
Hugh Latham was born in Sullivan County, Tennessee, December 29, 1865, and like the church’s
last several ministers, was educated at Southwestern University, receiving his M.A. and B.D.
degrees there. He served first in Missouri, after which he was Superintendent of Evangelism for
the Synod of Arkansas, coming then to Tunica, Miss., after which he was pastor at Hopewell,
while performing other duties related to Christian Education in the wider work of the Presbyterian
Church throughout the state. He served at Hopewell from 1918 to 1921, after which he assumed
the pastorate of the church at Climax, Ga., later serving at Madison, Fla., where he retired. He
died there September 25, 1948.3
In 1918, when Mr. Latham arrived, the congregation had thirty communicants, with thirty-three
enrolled in the Sunday school. Under his leadership the congregation made modest gains in numbers, defying a downward trend that plagued nearly all small churches as people followed farm to
market roads to Mississippi’s larger towns and cities.
W. W. Kimmons was church treasurer, and in 1919 he reported these expenditures: “Foreign Missions $67. Assembly H. Missions $18. Presbyterial Home Missions $45. Christian Education &
Relief $4. Sunday School Extension $4. Palmer Orphanage $20. Current Expense $200. Pastor’s
Salary $275. Total Benevolent $158. Total for other purposes $200. War Y.M.C.A. & Red Cross
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$200.” The expenditure toward war relief was new to the church’s budget. The size of the contribution speaks for itself. Fortunately World War I had ended and the congregation would turn its
attention to other matters.
In July 1921, the session called a congregational meeting to extend a pastoral call to the third of
its ministerial sons to serve as pastor of the church, the Rev W. N. Lowrance. William Nichols
Lowrance was born at Tupelo, December 10, 1869. His father, the Rev. William Lee Lowrance,
also a ministerial son of Hopewell, had come to Mississippi from Iredell County, N. C. William
Nichols Lowrance was educated at the University of Texas, after which he was a teacher and
businessman, when after sensing a call to the ministry, he studied theology under Drs. R. L. Dabney and R. K. Smoot, who later founded Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. After his
licensure, he served churches in Texas and Arkansas, coming then to Hopewell, where was pastor
until 1934.4
Country people were not in a hurry, and sermons had their attraction in those days. “Session met
1st Sunday in Aug 1921 during the services of the Sanctuary, being the close of an 8 days’ meeting & received the following members into the Church: Ruth Cromwell, Helen Saunders, and
Olivia Black, by confession, and Mr & Mrs Simon Cromwell, Mr & Mrs Lee Still, Leon Latham,
Mrs W. N. Lowrance, Elizabeth Lowrance, William Lowrance, & Frank Lowrance, by letter.”
Southern Presbyterians placed great emphasis upon stewardship, and during the early part of the
twentieth century, placed great stress upon the practice of tithing. The sessional record for March
31, 1927 indicates that “a canvas was conducted for local church support. No canvas was conducted for Benevolences. We have about 10 tithers in our congregation.” On December 4, 1927,
W. L. Kimmons was appointed Treasurer to succeed W. W. Kimmons, resigned.
A new kind of outreach was adopted in 1928 and met with some success. “Session met July 29th
1928 at church. All members present. Rev W. N. Lowrance acted as moderator & opened session
with prayer. The Session highly commended the work of Miss Clara Laidlaw, one of Synod’s
workers, & who conducted a Bible School in our section.” The Session paid her five dollars.
Two years later, in the midst of the Great Depression, the following amounts comprised the
church budget:
Local Church Work
Pastor’s Salary
Building Expense
Miscellaneous
Grand Total All Benev.
Value of Church Property
Value of Manse
163
27
6
259
$2,000
1,500
Canvas was made.
Pastor’s Salary was paid.
William Lowrance, Acting Treasurer
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Woman’s Work
Woman’s Aux. 7 members.—Contributions
Foreign Missions
Assembly’s Home Missions
Christian Ed & Relief
Religious Ed & Pub.
Orphan’s Home
Total Denom. Benevolence
$9
4
6
1
8
28
Local Church Work
Current Expense
Building
White Cross Work
Grand Total all Contributions
9
10
5
$52
In 1931, total membership was twenty-two, with Sunday school enrollment at nineteen.
In this era, it was said that every congregation either had a mission work, or was so weak that it
was a mission work. Hopewell Church therefore conducted a mission at a location called Miller’s
Camp, about three miles from the church. During the years 1928-1931, members held Sunday
school there every week when the weather permitted, and the Rev. W. N. Lowrance conducted a
service of worship once a month.
J. M. Saunders passed away May 2, 1933 and was succeeded as session clerk by W. W. Kimmons. On July 2, additional officers were elected, W. L. Kimmons and E. H. White as elders, and
H. C. McCorkle as Superintendent of the Sunday school, to succeed J. M. Sanders. During the
summer of 1934, the church again sponsored a week-long Bible School, with the session noting
that “we hope great results will come from the school.’
The time had come for Mr. Lowrance to retire. The elders hoped that he would continue to serve
the church in retirement from his home in Oxford, “but Mr. Lowrance did not think it best for the
interest for the Church to try to supply the Church from Oxford. He thought a resident pastor,
being in the manse, would be best for the Church, and would not consent to try to keep up the
work.” “The first Sunday in October,” the elders noted sadly, is “to be the last to have preaching,
the Pastor having moved to Oxford.”5
A period of pastoral vacancy followed. On March 29, 1936 the Session authorized its representative to assure Presbytery of its earnest desire to have the Church’s interest kept in mind in the
organization of any new group of churches that may be found, “to the end that we may have
stated preaching as soon as possible.” Help came in the person of the Rev. Homer M. McLain,
superintendent of home missions for North Mississippi Presbytery, who served the congregation,
along with many others, for the next twelve years and more.
Homer McMillan McLain was born in Acworth, Ga., September 5, 1878, and was educated at
Southwestern, which honored him with an honorary doctorate in 1931. He was ordained by
Arkansas Presbytery and served churches in Arkansas and Louisiana, before becoming superin-
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tendent of home missions for Red River Presbytery. He came in a similar capacity to North Mississippi Presbytery in 1925. The longtime clerk of presbytery, he died in Oxford July 25, 1956.6
J. Raymond Saunders elected elder, Oct 15, 1939, and was appointed Clerk of Session Dec 17,
1939, replacing W. W. Kimmons who retired due to ill health. On January 3, 1940, the session
met in the home of Raymond Saunders and was opened with prayer by H. C. McCorkle. The Rev.
H. M. McLain officiated. It was decided to ask Presbytery for one service each month. With the
many churches Mr. McClain also assisted, this was the best the congregation could do.
photo from The Heritage of Lafayette County, Mississippi
Grace and Raymond Saunders, 1923
That same year the congregation voted to co-operate in full with the newly-formed Ministers’
Annuity Fund, and the Church treasurer, Mr. W. W. Kimmons was named Treasurer of the Fund,
and instructed “to remit quarterly, in advance, a sum equal to 7½ % per annum of the Pastor’s
salary, agreed upon, $40.00, making the quarterly amount to be remitted 75 cents.”7
In the spring of 1941 the congregation reported a membership of fifteen, with sixteen enrolled in
Sunday school. The Women of the Church became the primary agents of work and benevolent
concern—a fact the elders (all men) recognized. They referred repeatedly to the “inspiring reports
of the Woman’s Auxiliary,” and for a tiny church, they were.
The congregation eventually gave up the hope of having a resident minister, and a new roof for
the church was needed. To raise money, a congregational meeting was called in April 1947, to
consider sale of the manse and all other buildings on the church lot, except the church itself. The
motion failed for lack of a second, but other plans were in store, as events would soon reveal.8
Through a yoking arrangement with College Hill and Abbeville Churches, the Rev. Thomas
Mitchell Lemly came as pastor in 1948. A dedicated minister, already at the normal age of retirement, Mr. Lemly was born in Jackson, Miss., September 6, 1878, and was educated as a lawyer at
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Millsaps College. He soon sensed a call to the ministry and attended Union Seminary in Virginia.
After ordination in Hanover Presbytery, he returned to Mississippi, serving churches in the
Lexington group, then at Paris, Tex., after which he came to Columbia and Monticello, Miss.,
followed by service in Louisiana. He died field work for the Minister’s Annuity Fund for a decade, with further pastorates in Mississippi, Texas, and Louisiana, after which he came to Oxford,
retiring there after his service to Hopewell in 1954. His wife Mary was his companion and
helpmate. He died July 11, 1971.9
As noted above Hopewell Church was in need of a mission, and that new purpose emerged in
1948, as North Mississippi Presbytery cast about for a location on which to develop a camp.
Creation of a camp within the bounds of Presbytery was seen as a way of overcoming logistical
problems in which the presbytery had difficulty getting its young people together, supplementing
the district rallies and providing the benefit of popular summer conferences at Jackson’s Belhaven College in a more congenial setting, closer to home.
The presbytery’s camp was conceived, in a technical sense, by the action of North Mississippi
Presbytery, at the Benoit, which on April 8, 1947, ratified the report of its Committee on Religious Education, which said that, “The time is ripe for the next step forward in our work with
young people: The providing of a Conference ground for our young people, and other groups desiring to use it.”10 The presbytery authorized a youth camp for the summer of 1948, using rented
facilities at the Boy Scout Camp, Tallaha, near Charleston. Its success led to the desire to develop
a site under the presbytery’s control.11
The first task was to find a convenient central location within the bounds of the presbytery. At
first the idea of locating the camp at Sand Springs Church southwest of Oxford was considered,
but the location’s isolation was a mitigating factor. Then several in the Hopewell congregation
had an idea. They offered the land and buildings surrounding the old church, as well as some adjacent property given by Miss Kate McFarland with adequate space for a lake to presbytery 12 for
development of a camp. Due to favorable aspects of the site, the presbytery voted on December 7,
1948 to accept Hopewell Church’s offer.
A site with slightly over twenty-one acres owned by the Hopewell Church, as well as the property
given by Miss McFarland was conveyed to the presbytery, with deeds signed and the moderator,
stated clerk and permanent clerk of Presbytery.13
The story of Camp Hopewell is told separately,14 but the relation between camp and church was
mutually beneficial. The much-needed new roof was soon added, and the church was wired for
electricity—the old coal-oil lamps attached to the interior walls still bearing witness to the old
way of lighting the church in previous times. Soon the church was once again hosting meetings of
Presbytery, as it had done in former times, and ministers who served the church supplemented
their duties with work of various kinds on behalf of the camp. The officers of Hopewell Church,
Elders J. R. Saunders, H. C. McCorkle, and Deacon H. L. Kimmons were appointed by Presbytery as temporary caretakers of the Hopewell grounds,15 with Howard McCorkle eventually appointed as property manager for the camp. Several camp structures were named for members of
the Hopewell Church, several of whom aided the camp by selling adjacent parcels of the land to
the camp so that its ministry could be expanded.
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Hopewell Church as the first construction for the camp got under way.
The presbytery’s camp committee added gas heat to the Hopewell Church, and the Oxford
Church furnished communion vessels and hymnals for the use of the congregation and camp.16
Upon the death of Hugh Kimmons a longtime deacon in the Hopewell Church, a new spinet piano
was placed in the church as a memorial to him, for the use of the church congregation as well as
the worship of the Hopewell camps.17
In January 1957, the Rev. J. Millen Looney came as pastor of the Abbeville, College Hill, and
Hopewell Churches. He also served as camp manager, becoming a familiar figure to young and
old alike.18 John Millen Looney was one of Mississippi’s great home mission pastors. He was
born at Sheffield, Alabama, April 23, 1904, and married Mary Scarbrough, of Raleigh, Tenn.,
July 10, 1931. He received his education at Southwestern and Louisville Presbyterian Theological
Seminary. After initial service in Missouri, he came to Nettleton, Miss., also serving Unity
Church at Plantersville, followed by pastorates in Okolona, Miss.; Demopolis, Ala.; Ackerman,
Miss.; Collins, Miss.; as well as Jackson and Denmark, Tenn. After his service at Hopewell, he
was pastor at Biggersville, Corinth, and Baldwin, Miss., returning to Nettleton and Unity for another period, after which he retired, December 31, 1973. He was stated clerk of St. Andrew Presbytery, 1960-1967.19
J. Millen Looney and Howard C. McCorkle
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By 1959, Hopewell Church numbered only nine members, yet its mission remained strong. The
elders regularly attended meetings of the presbytery, and the Women of the Church carried on
their benevolent work. Mrs. W. W. Kimmons, the Church Treasurer, kept careful records, and the
congregation was faithful in its attendance and stewardship of money.
The following statistical report for 1958 was presented and admitted to record:
Members reported last year
No gains
Loss by death
Total Membership at end of year
Elders
Deacons
Families having worship
8
1
7
2
1
2
Assembly’s World Missions
Assembly’s Church Extension
Assembly’s Christian Education
Assembly’s Annuities and Relief
$43.00
20.00
7.00
5.00
General Fund
Assembly’s Interchurch agencies
11.00
1.00
Total budgeted gifts, Assembly’s Causes
Total to Synod’s Causes
Total to Presbytery’s Causes
Total to Budgeted Benevolences
Assembly’s Non-Budgeted Causes
Synod’s Non-Budgeted Causes
Total to Non-Budgeted Benevolences
87.00
65.00
65.00
217.00
47.00
13.00
60.00
Total to All Benevolences
267.00
Current Expenses
446.00
Grand Total-All Contributions
$723.00
The Rev. Clifford L. Rigby, a native of French Camp, was ordained and installed as pastor of
Abbeville, College Hill, and Hopewell Churches, June 23, 1963. He was born, August 21, 1934,
and attended Millsaps College and Columbia Theological Seminary. He served Hopewell until
1966, also performing the duties of camp manager, after which he became pastor at Pontotoc. His
later service was to churches in Georgia.20
The congregation’s next pastor was the Rev. Jack C. Oates III, who came in 1967. He was born at
Sweetwater, Tenn., August 19, 1939, and attended Wheaton College in Illinois and Columbia
Theological Seminary. He undertook additional studies at the University of Mississippi, earning a
Master’s degree, while minister of Abbeville, College Hill and Hopewell. He was called to Clinton, S.C., in the autumn of 1972.21
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The congregation entered a new phase of its ministry in the summer of 1972, following the deaths
of its two elders, who were also its last male members. As a result, women elders were elected to
the session—a point of departure for many Presbyterian Churches in North Mississippi in that
era. The congregational minutes tell the story.
“A Congregational Meeting was held at Hopewell Presbyterian Church on August 20, 1972, immediately following the afternoon service. All members were present; namely, Mrs. Raymond
Saunders, Mrs. Tim Kidd, Mrs. H. C. McCorkle, Mrs. Hugh Kimmons and Mildred Kimmons.
The meeting was opened with prayer by the Pastor, Rev. Jack Oates. The purpose of the meeting
was the selection of Elders since two Elders of this Church have been claimed by death during the
past two years. All members were considered eligible for nomination and the following three
members were chosen by secret ballot: Mrs Raymond Saunders, Mrs. H. C. McCorkle and Mildred Kimmons. There being no further business, the meeting was closed with prayer.”
Hopewell’s last installed pastor was the Rev. Thomas B. Tyndall, who was called also to the
church at College Hill. Coming in the summer of 1973, he resigned from Hopewell the following
December, pleading the press of his responsibilities at College Hill.
The Rev. Stanley Smathers of First Presbyterian Church in Oxford kindly assumed the duties at
Hopewell, conducting services one Sunday afternoon per month. After 1975, the Rev. S. L. McCullouch, executive secretary of the presbytery and the Rev. C. Denton O’Dell, director of Camp
Hopewell, conducted services the Sunday afternoon services. A trust fund for the church cemetery was established, with Mrs. J. R. Saunders, Mildred Kimmons, and C. Nevin Jones, as
trustees.22
Nevin and Margaret Grace Jones
After Mr. McCullouch’s retirement from the presbytery, he continued to conduct services for the
Hopewell Church. Mrs. C. S. Wilkins of the Abbeville Presbyterian Church was pianist. Although
the congregation had only five members, others joined in, and the average attendance was twenty!
As session clerk Mildred Kimmons recorded, “Though we are few in number with God’s help,
we hope to continue to hold services in the old church that means so much to the members.”23
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Time and age took its toll. Mr. McCullouch continued to conduct services, and as many as ten
would attend, but on April 13, 1980, Grace Saunders was dismissed to the church in Oxford, and
Mildred Kimmons died January 1, 1981. Hopewell Church was dissolved as an active congregation, February 3 1981, after 143 years of service, with the historic 1866 church building, with
its quaint oil lamps and Victorian settee behind the pulpit continuing to serve as the camp chapel
and a frequent meeting place for sessions of St. Andrew Presbytery.24 But all around the old
church, spiritual life was flourishing. Camp Hopewell was young and full of activity. The old
church had indeed left a great legacy!
Ministerial Sons of the Hopewell Congregation
A colorful banner consisting of a white cross on a blue field, surrounded by eleven stars, preserved by the Hopewell congregation gave testimony to its pride at having contributed seven ministers to Presbyterianism. Three were pastors of Hopewell Church. In order of ordination, they
were:
John Alexander Kimmons was born in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, April 24, 1824.He and
his brother James McEwen Kimmons both entered the ministry from Hopewell Church. The
family came to Mississippi in the 1830s. He was educated at Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa.,
and Hanover College, Indiana. He then attended New Albany Theological Seminary in Indiana,
and was ordained by Chickasaw Presbytery in October 1859 and served Hebron, Carrollville,
Gaston, New Hope, and Corinth, followed by service to several churches in Florida. He died
there, September 7, 1905.25
Rufus Washington Shive was born at Old Sandy Ridge, N. C., and was educated at the University of Mississippi and Columbia Seminary. Ordained by Chickasaw Presbytery in August 1863,
he was pastor at Pontotoc, Miss., Searcy, Ark., followed by many other churches in Arkansas and
Texas. He died in Texas in 1898 or 1899.26
Daniel K. McFarland was born in the Hopewell neighborhood, March 10, 1848, and was educated at the University of Mississippi and Columbia Seminary. He was ordained in 1873 by
Chickasaw Presbytery, serving Hopewell Church from 1873 to 1875—the first of the congregation’s ministerial sons to become its pastor.27
Samuel Washington Newell was born in Cabarrus County, N. C., August 25, 1845, the son of
William G. and Cresida Laru Black Newell. He married Margaret Scott Kimmons at Hopewell,
September 4, 1877. He received his education for the ministry at the University of Mississippi
and Columbia Seminary, and was ordained by Cherokee Presbytery in Georgia, November 3,
1877. He served churches in Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. He died February 2,
1904.28
Eber Elam Bigger was born at Toccopola, November 15, 1848, the son of Joseph Makemie
Wilson and Martha Robinson Bigger. He married Emma Pomeroy Russell in Memphis, June 7,
1881. He was educated at the University of Mississippi, Union Seminary in Virginia, receiving
his divinity degree from Princeton. He was ordained by North Mississippi Presbytery, April 11,
1879. His ministries included Byhalia, Miss., as well as churches in Tennessee, Virginia, North
Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma, and Florida. He died at Clearwater, Florida, June 26, 1944.29
William Lee Lowrance was born in Iredell County, N. C., July 26, 1836, the son of John L. and
Jane Kirkpatrick Lowrance. He married Cordelia Stewart of Oxford, March 15, 1865. He studied
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at Davidson College before serving in the Confederate army, after which he earned his living as a
planter. He was licensed and ordained in 1882 by Dallas Presbytery in Texas, serving many
pastorates in that state, including the First Church of San Antonio. He died in Texas, at Lewisville, in 1916. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Austin College.30
Levi Hope Kimmons was born in Lafayette County, June 27, 1852, the son of Hugh H. and
Cornelia Jane Hope Kimmons, and was educated at the University of Mississippi and Union
Seminary in Virginia. He was ordained by Chickasaw Presbytery in 1887, and served churches in
Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, Mississippi and Tennessee. He died at Oxford, November 21, 1898.31
James McEwen Kimmons, whose life is traced elsewhere in these pages, who was ordained
April 21, 1888, was the congregation’s second ministerial son to be called as pastor of Hopewell
Church. He spent his ministerial career in the service of Hopewell Church.32
Eugene Stewart Lowrance was born at Tupelo, December 25, 1867, the son of the Rev. William
Lee and Sarah Cordelia Stewart Lowrance. He received his B.A. from Austin College, and
attended Union Seminary in Virginia. He was ordained in Fort Worth Presbytery, May 18, 1896,
serving pastorates at several Texas churches, including Abilene and Wichita Falls. He died in
Dallas, August 28, 1940.33
William Nichols Lowrance, whose life is also traced elsewhere in these pages, was the third
ministerial son of the congregation to be installed as pastor of Hopewell Church. He was ordained
in 1910 in Texas.34
Fred Stewart McCorkle was born November 23, 1890, and received his education at the
University of Mississippi and Union Seminary in Virginia. He was ordained October 12, 1919 by
Montgomery Presbytery in Virginia, and served churches in Radford, Va., Malvern, Ark., Fountain City, Tenn., Stuart, Va., and Poolesville, Md. He was the stated clerk of Knoxville Presbytery
and the Synod of Appalachia, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from King College in Bristol, Tenn. He married Annah Elizabeth Ruckman, of Staunton, Va. He died December 29, 1967.35
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Ministerial Spouses from Hopewell Church
Hopewell Church was also home to the following women who became ministerial spouses. They
were Martha Bright McCorkle, wife of the Rev. J. M. Kimmons; Florence Foster, wife of the
Rev. W. V. Frierson; Cordie Stuart, who married the Rev. Eugene Stewart Lowrance; Margaret
Shives, the wife of the Rev. R. W. Shive; Margaret Scott Kimmons, who married the Rev.
Samuel W. Newell; and Fredonia Shive, who was the spouse of the Rev. Frank Howell.
Endnotes
1
Ministerial Directory (1941): 472; (1967): 380.
Sessional Records of Hopewell Presbyterian Church (July 28, 1928).
3 Ibid. (1941): 393; (1951): 375; (1967): 311.
4 Ibid. (1941): 417-18; (1967): 328.
5 Sessional Records of Hopewell Presbyterian Church (September 2, 1934). Mr. Lowrance died in Oxford, March 10,
1959.
2
12
6
Ministerial Directory (1941): 474; (1951): 452; (1967): 367.
Sessional Records of Hopewell Presbyterian Church (March 17, 1940).
8 Ibid. (March 20, 1947); Minutes of the Congregation, Hopewell Presbyterian Church (April 20, 1947).
9 Ministerial Directory (1951): 381; (1967): 316; (1975): 361.
10 Minutes of North Mississippi Presbytery (April 8, 1947): 23. Additional members of Presbytery’s Religious Education Committee at the time this recommendation was made included the Rev. Messrs L. C. Elmore, L. B. Colquitt Jr.,
Everett H. Phillips, W. Taylor Clarke, and Mrs K. A. Commer.
11 John L. Edwards, Presbyterian Voice 5 (July 1994): 18.
12 J. Millen Looney, unpublished historical notes on Camp Hopewell, c. 1965: 1.
13 Minutes of North Mississippi Presbytery (January 11, 1949): 16-17.
14 See Robert Milton Winter, “A Place Called Hope:” A Sixtieth Anniversary History of Camp Hopewell—1949-2009”
(Oxford, Miss.: St. Andrew Presbytery, 2009).
15 Ibid. (April 19, 1949): 31-32.
16 Sessional Records of the Hopewell Presbyterian Church (April 14, 1957).
17 Women of the Church, Yearly Historical Report, Hopewell Presbyterian Church (1961): 1.
18 Ibid. (January 15, 1957): 3-4.
19 Ministerial Directory (1975): 373.
20 Ibid. (1983): 610.
21 Ibid., 541.
22 Minutes of the Congregation, Hopewell Presbyterian Church (March 9, 1975)
23 Sessional Records of Hopewell Presbyterian Church (December, 1977).
24 Minutes of St. Andrew Presbytery (February 3, 1981): 18.
25 Ministerial Directory (1941): 374.
26 Ibid., 648.
27 Ibid. (1941): 463.
28 Ibid., 536.
29 Ibid., 54.
30 Ibid., 417.
31 Ibid., 374.
32 Ibid.
33 Ibid., 417.
34 Ibid., 417-18.
35 Ministerial Directory (1941): 453; (1975): 404.
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