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From: "brenda gardenhire" <>
Subject: Re: [MAINE] South China (ME) Community Church & Rufus M. Jones
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:37:54 -0500
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check usgenweb for maine they have a list of cementarys
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From: David Reed<mailto:>
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Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 11:23 PM
Subject: [MAINE] South China (ME) Community Church & Rufus M. Jones


All,



I am trying to find the official name of the cemetery in South China, Maine,
which is directly behind the "South China Community Church" If anyone can
help me with that, and with any connections for the five McLaughlin's buried
in it (Josephine E, dau. Of Eurgene & Elizabeth McLaughlin 1862-1863 /
Eugene B. McLaughlin (1837-1905) and Elizabeth C. McLaughlin (1840-1920) /
Thomas W. McLaughlin (d. 1894) and his wife, Susan W, (d. 1890), I'd be most
grateful.



-David

Bangor, Penobscot, Maine



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This church is a National Historic Site, and a bronze plaque in front of the
church proclaims:



"SOUTH CHINA COMMUNITY CHURCH



National Historic Site

And

Home Meeting of Rufus M. Jones"



"About 1827, a local family donated this site to the Baptists who built a
brick church that burned in 1869. The Baptists transferred the site to the
China Monthly Meeting of Friends in 1884 who then built the present main
building. In 1935 the Friends created the South China Community Fellowship
to embrace all faiths. Over the years additions have been made to the
original structure. The property was presented to the Fellowship by the
Friends in their centennial year 1984, and it then became the South China
Baptist Chuch."



(quote by Rufus M. Jones, 1863-1948) "Every local church in Christendom
ought to be a creative center of transforming life and love in the
community."



Rufus M. Jones, 1863-1948


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