Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A History of the Church of the Advent: Published April 20, 1980, the Second Sunday After Easter
In 1887 the Ladies' Guild was formed. According to the minutes, Mrs. Thomas C. Hunter was elected president and Mrs. L. G. Estes, secretary - treasurer. Meetings were set for every Thursday at the home of Mrs. Hunter unless storms The Hunter house stood on the site now occupied by the Enfield Baptist Church and faced Dennis Street. The lot was purchased after Mrs. Hunter's death from her son, the late Clifton Wheat Hunter, about 1915 by the Baptists who moved the dwelling to the back of the lot facing Burnett Avenue where it served as the parsonage. The dwelling was again moved across Burnett Avenue to 308 South Dennis Street on January 23, l979, and will be the home of Mrs. Lucille Bennett. This is the site of the former home of Thomas C. Hunter's brother, William Hunter, M.D., (born 1812) and later of his daughters, the late Misses Janie and Bessie Hunter.
In 1887 the Guild paid for painting the church. There were two weddings in 1888: Walter Pittman to Carolina mclin and Dr. James Fenton Bryant to Maggie Gunter, great - granddaughter of Governor John Branch and sister of the late Mrs. Bessie Boseman. They evidently maintained the lamps, paying for nine gallons of oil and one chimney, an accumulation of six months, and also part of the heat, for we read, Mrs. Curtis paid Dr. Harrison coal for the church.
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