Dancyville Methodist Church Homecoming ~ 2003

THIS IS THE DAY WHICH THE LORD HATH
MADE; WE WILL REJOICE AND BE GLAD IN IT.
PSALM 118: 24

PROGRAM WELCOME

We welcome you to our Homecoming and thank you for sharing this day with us.
Since our last Homecoming in 2001, several improvements and restoration projects have been completed .
The exterior of the church was pressure washed, scraped and painted. The 14 window units were scraped, painted and reglazed. Damaged siding over windows and air conditioner units was repaired and replaced. Original outside shutters were restored and painted. The last project, shutter restoration, was possible only through contributions from many of you. Plaques for those whose contribution paid for two shutters have been placed by each window. A large plaque with name plates for those whose gifts paid for one shutter has been placed in the vestibule. Names of all who contributed are recorded in the Book of Remembrance which will be kept on the table in the vestibule. We sincerely appreciate all the help in making completion of this project possible.

We hope you enjoy the day as much as we enjoy having you with us.

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Left to right:

DAVID WILLIAMSON, CONRAD COPPEDGE,
FRANK BREAZEALE and ROBERT NEWSOM

Descendants of the Coppedge family brothers and sister who moved from Dancyville, Tennessee to East Texas in the year 1853. They attended the homecoming at the Dancyville United Methodist Church on Sunday, September 21, 2003, exactly 150 years after their forebears made the move to Texas where they established the Murray League Methodist Episcopal Church, South and the Murray Institute.

Robert Newsom is the great-great grandson of William Lindsey Coppedge; Conrad Coppedge and Frank Breazeale are great grandsons of Charles Clark Coppedge; David Williamson is the great grandson of Martha Rebecca Coppedge Armstrong.

W. L. Coppedge, C. C. Coppedge, and Martha Coppedge were children of John Jackson Coppedge and Isabella Paxton Coppedge of Dancyville, Tennessee.

D.C. and Martha still operate Dancyville's only remaining general store.
D.C. is one of Dancyville's "Grand Old Gentlemen."