OLD THINGS PASS AWAY -- RECORD OF THE DEED

YOUTSEYS, TROWBRIDGES, ALLEN, LIND, HAYES, SCOTT, DOUGLASS, ROBINSON

Posted By: David (email)
Date: 1/8/2005 at 22:18:33

The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, May 2, 1907

The record of the deed of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church property, at
LaGrange, in the Recorder's Office, has been found. In fact it was not lost
but owing to the time not being known, no one knew where to look. MR. TANDY
ALLEN remembered about it, stating that in 1868 he built his farm house and
at the same time purchased the lumber for the C.P. Church, at Eddyville.
The property was deeded to the trustees, TANDY ALLEN, DOUGLASS ALLEN and W.H
VAN NICE, and the grantors were W.T. MAY and wife. The incorporation
record of the church is faulty but the property belongs to the C.P. Church
at large, some courts holding the "Old School" as its successor. A meeting
will be held there Friday to elect local officers for the newly organized
congregation of Presbyterians. The Lone Tree lot, as spoken of, last week,
is the three acres, including the cemetery and the Christian Church plot.
Both the Christian Church and the C.P. Church are things of the past.
LaGrange was originally the metropolis of Lucas County and is one of the
places where history began, the early seat of Methodism for the eastern part
of the county. Its pristine glory can never be restored. After the
railroad left it high and dry on the divide, it began to decline and its
buildings rotted away and its people are scattered to the four corners of
the earth -- the surviving few.

Linked with its history were the LINDS, HAYES, ALLENS, TROWBRIDGES, YOUTSEYS
SCOTTS, MONYHONS, DOUGLASS, ROBINSONS, and others. In the stage days it
flourished as a green bay tree and the State Road was a highway of commerce.
In the town there were shops, factories and stores galore -- and even the
circus came regularly in the summer time -- but it is now a deserted village
with several well kept farm houses on the corners and scattering evidences,
here and there, of its important past.
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