Photo from Our Special Heritage
Contributed By: Andrea Long
Bloomingsport Friends Sunday School 1922
Lora Beeson was the teacher. She taught the little ones there at the church all her life including Nina.
Contributed By: Nina Thomas
Bloomingsport Friends Meeting 1930
Contributed By: Nina Thomas
Bloomingsport Friends Meeting 1951
Contributed By: Nina Thomas
Bloomingsport Friends Meeting 2004
Contributed By: Gina Richardson
Bloomingsport Friends Meeting 2004
Contributed By: Nina Thomas
Bloomingsport Friends Meeting
Tucker History Page 153.
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Bloomingsport.--The class was first held at Jeremiah Tharpe's, south of Bloomingsport. A log house was built, perhaps about 1828. The trustees of the society were John Stevens, Nathan Frazier and Thomas Phillips. The present house was built in 1849.
Other members have been Laban Tharpe, William Chamness, William Webb, Caswell Bachelder, Alfred York, Daniel Hiatt, Harbor Pierce.
The class numbers about forty at the present time.
Our Special Heritage
Sesquicentennial History of Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends (Quakers) Page 97
Bloomingsport Friends Meeting
Location: 3 miles west and 2 miles south of Lynn, Washington Twp.,
Randolph County, IN.
Date Organized as a meeting: A preparative meeting was set up in 1882. As a Monthly Meeting: March 13, 1963.
Organized by Authority of: Cherry Grove Monthly Meeting.
Origin of Name: Named after the town of Bloomingsport.
Family Names of Charter or Early Members: KNIGHT, REECE, OZBUN, STANLEY and CHAMNESS.
Present membership: 30.
History of physical Facilities: Meetings were first held in a creamery in the southeast part of Bloomingsport.
On November 16, 1897, the present structure was purchased from the United Brethren Congregation.