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Chapel Hill Methodist
Church
Wording engraved on
monument in front of the church
Originally Reed's Chapel
Church, Honoring Elijah Harrison Reed who came to Choctaw County about 1843.
Some 200 yards north of this spot, Reed taught school in a log cabin which also
housed a Methodist Church and a Masonic Lodge.
A second building across the
road from the original, was constrtucted about 1870 and designated Chapel Hill.
The present building was completed about 1897. Original land donors were Sam
Reed, Alonzo Bright and John Sheedy, later joined by J. P. Sheedy and K. L.
Tennyson.
Humphry Reed, Tom Ruff and
Ben Mosely were major contributors to the construction of 1897.
August 16, 1970
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