The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

{ § Feinluse. Proel of Piaieer Pride er {In the Orig inal Windfall Church By MRS. K. KALBFLEISCH WINDFALL--The church has always' been the centre of activi- ities in' this community. 1 | As soon as the pioneers of this district had built = their homes Jana st stumped enough land for till- ! ing, the need for a place to wor- | 'shp was felt. . Money was scarce in thoseidays but the spirit of co-operation was | keen. There was plenty of lumber and a good number of carpenters land laborers willing to give their time. The land for the building and (enough for a burial ground at the | | back was given by Harvey Miller, | who owned and operated a say | mill on the farm near jl church, | | Tris farm was tele fo) years by the Ry was recently EA Murphy. } The church site isa Pedutiful e, (with a maple grove to oe fon the Mackenzie farm. T 'church'is in the centre of Solon Imunity, with the public s | |the opposite side of the road, | Looking south from the « jonie can see Horner's Cree he ng its way. In the spring. whe the creek is in flood, the chu appear§ to be situated on ie {banks of a lake. ty | The first church was a ge azge frame building, One que: fea ature of this early building was [i at there were separate doors {for women and children an@ for: the men. The men never sat on the same side of the church as | the women and ch The bo | {pit oe laced: { congregat {nei Brethren faith. g | S.-R. Correspondent | ~ Ayr--Almost without excep- tion, early nineteenth century stone houses still standing in. Ontario are! praof of the pioneer's pride in appearance. The small, fieldstone farm- house built between 1855 and 1860 near the hamlet of Ayr is a good example of the thought that went into the placing of one stone upon another. A nice «balance has been worked out "in the stacking of the chim- neys and the placing of the 12-pane double-hung windows and the recessed door. The pattern above door and win- dows, the oblong transom above the door and the panel- | 1éd wood trim around the door' are a fair amount of decora- tion for so unpretentious a | house. In 1828, settler George Lan- built a log cabin. This was re- piaced by a frame house, the stone house not going up for at least 27 years. George Landreth's descen- dants left the old farm in 1900 | and the land and = house | In 1899 the old 'church' was| taken down and a new brick build- ing erected on the same spot. A number of families who gave of their time and money to build they new church are still remembered in the community: the Wittrich, | Fry, Sim, Hewitt, Kalbfleisch, Skillings and Pierce families. Several other families who assists | ed have since moved away. | Mr. Kite of Richwood performed | the ceremony of laying the corner |stone for the new church. One lad who watched the sol- | emn procedure wide-eyed recalls {hearing it said that Mr, Kite 'placed a $100 bill under the corner stone and for: some time he be- lieved the bill was still there, _ | Special to The Globe 'and Mai changed ands. n Hany. - until in 1946 it sad Soin | Henry Dobson. 'Although M: Dobson's first plan was 0 BF PES farm | the 1: lan 3 his i interest in early Canadian furniture soon + red into a full-time ~ business, v "f know the farmers and the © countryside well," Mr. | Dobson said, "and wonderful | I! old pieces of. furniture are i still coming out of old barns, and attics." A recent haul,' © restored with help from his Ff wife, includes a solid pine, | dre bought 185 acres and * The Jast of «~~ | | | SITIES CR La Harper, Wilkins, Bannett,'Pruss, > Shields, then pastor, ang PME , oval extension table, a cherry ! corner cupboard, a Pennsyl- |, vania Dutch hutch cupboard and a Dutch wardrobe. 4 The Dobsons, who call their | "old stone house, Hawk Hill, | lease 83 acres to neighbor-| farmers and have reforested | the remaining 100 acres in pine and some hardwoods. became Congregational in faith. 'With the passing of a number "of the pioneers, 'the congregation {grew small and it was possible {only fo have a minister from an- other charge. With the coming of union the church became Unit- tthe ctr Wad Bris. sionary charge, but due to the un- tiring efforts of the Rev. G. T. Shields, the church soon b self supporting.. . i g Of late years, with! the selling of several to tobacco grow- ers and families moving away the is once again Lo The community, howe¥er, looks to kindled and for the new families TA Tew years afer" the church ed and was placed on the Innerkip) charge. the spirit of the pioneers to be re-!| to 'unite with the old to "bring Windfall Church Founded in 1850's f ws is in receipt of a chp-: Ee Na = George Pellow, | Tories found among the pers onal effects of her mother, whose iaiden name was Mary Amn At kins, concerning the origin of the Windfall United Church. "The Windfall Church was found: ed in the 1850s by the United Brethren. Elder Mosier, who came from Pennsylvania, was the or |ganizer. Besides building a ehuren fat Windfall, Elder Mosier Was : ental in having a pu Canning, then k 's Hollow. The site for the Windfall Church! as donated by Harvey Miller. | | erected in 1899 under the pastor: ship of Rev. Darius Dafoe. The corner stone was laid by the late, David Este of Richwood. a