1951
Name of Church:
S. Toms Prairie (Inactive)
Ewing-McLin Presbytery
- Illinois Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1951, page 192]
1952
Name of Church:
S. Toms Prairie (inac.)
Ewing-McLin Presbytery
- Illinois Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1952, page 174]
1953
Name of Church:
S. Toms Prairie (inac.)
Ewing-McLin Presbytery
- Illinois Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1953, page 202]
1954
Name of Church:
S. Toms Prairie (inac.)
Ewing-McLin Presbytery
- Illinois Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1954, page 214]
1955
Name of Church:
S. Toms Prairie (inac.)
Ewing-McLin Presbytery
- Illinois Synod
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1955, page 194]
1956
Name of Church:
S. Toms Prairie
Minister In Charge: J. G. Whiteside
Clerk of Session and Post Office: Henry B. Borah,
509 S. E. Third, Fairfield
Total No. of Members
on Church Roll: 9
[Source: Minutes
of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1956, page 210]
1957
Name of Church:
S. Toms Prairie
Minister In Charge: none listed
Clerk of Session and Address: Henry B. Borah, 509
S. E. 3rd, Fairfield, Ill.
[Source:
Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, 1957, page 178]
1958
Name of Church:
S. Toms Prairie
Minister In Charge: none listed
Clerk of Session and Address: Henry B. Borah, 509
S. E. 3rd, Fairfield, Ill.
Active Membership: 9
[Source: Minutes of the General
Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1958, pages
20-21]
1959
We, your
Board of Missions and Evangelism, report that we are in process
of making definite efforts toward Revival and re-organization
of Tom's Prairie Church, northeast of Fairfield.
They
now use the names interchangeably: Toms Prairie and South Toms
Prairie.
[Source: Minutes of
the Ewing-McLin Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
March 17, 1959, page 5]
1959
Name of Church:
S. Toms Prairie
Minister In Charge: none listed
Clerk of Session and Address: Henry B. Borah, 509
S. E. 3rd, Fairfield, Ill.
Active Membership: 9
Information used from the 1957 report.
[Source: Minutes of
the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church,
1959, pages 20-21]
1960
Committee
on Board of Missions and Evangelism
We have had
before us Reverend Frank Sanders, who has served as director of
mission work at Tom's Prairie Church. He reports that the
work there was going forward nicely, and with increasing interest
by the people there was James Frueh, a Licentiate of Lincoln-Decatur
Presbytery. However, the Church building there was destroyed
by fire recently. Fortunately all the furniture was saved,
and is stored in a school building near-by.
Reverend Sanders reports that there was no insurance, but that the congregation has something over $500.00 in cash, and with this nucleus, is desirous of replacing their church building; either through purchase and removal of the school house, or erection of a small building. Many people have expressed a desire to contribute toward replacing this historical old church.
Therefore; we recommend that this Presbytery express its approval
of plans to restore this church, and that, in event program of
rehabilitation in untaken, the $100.00 be given them from Mission
Funds of the Presbytery. Further; we recommend that each church
of the Presbytery support this effort with special offering when
progress of plans become definite.
[Source:
Minutes of the Ewing-McLin Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, March 23, 1960, page 8]
1960
Name of Church:
S. Toms Prairie
Minister In Charge: James Frueh
Clerk of Session and Address: Perry Gillison, Fairfield,
Ill.
Active Membership: 2
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1960, pages 22-23]
1961
Name of Church:
S. Toms Prairie
Minister In Charge: none listed
Clerk of Session and Address: none listed
Inactive
Church
This is the last year this congregation
is listed the General Assembly Yearbook.
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1961, pages 22-23]