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This picture was made in front of the Radford Lane Camp which had been anchored to the huge oak some
20 years.Birdie Steel, Mrs. Willie Howard, Helen
Lyons, Blanche Tergerson, Gladys Anderson,
and Mrs. Oscar Johnson.
In the early 1930s the Lane's Chapel School
was consolidated with Mosheim Public
School. A school bus carried the children to
Mosheim to school. Tom Sowell bought the
Lane's Chapel School and land. He remod-
eled the schoolhouse into a dwelling which is
now owned by Glen and Mary Alice Craw-
ford.
The church was the other principal part of
Lane's Chapel. The first church was built in
1878. John R. Lane and sons Radford, Elzie,
and Irvin, were good carpenters and proposed
to build the church near the school. Joshua
McCuistion donated the land. There is also
a cemetery nearby. After the church was
completed, the name of the settlement was
changed from Hollis Prairie to Lane's Chapel
in honor of the Lanes.
The first church, a large frame structure
with long pews, burned a few years after being
built. The people immediately built a new
church. In 1909 a tabernacle was built to
replace the brush arbor where services had
been held every summer since the 1870s. This
tabernacle was destroyed by a tornado in
1938. An account of the Lanes Chapel Camp
Meetings has been written by Lourah L.
Hargis and follows this story.
In 1930 a new little white church was built.
Services were held there until 1959 after
which the membership was transferred to
Clifton's Methodist Church. This little
churchhouse still stands today, the building
being used as a community center. Singings
are held there once each month and a
Memorial Reunion is held annually. Lane's
Chapel Historical Marker Dedication and
Annual Homecoming commemorating the
100th anniversary of Land Deed was June 7,
1981.Lane's Chapel Camp Meetings
After a long season of planting, cultivation
of crops, and harvest of grain, Lane's Chapel
Church members held a mid-summer camp
meeting for a period of ten days.
On Saturday before the meeting began,
campers would meet at the church to clear
the area, erect tents, and get set up for light
housekeeping. They brought iron bedsteads,
woodburning cookstoves, a long dining table,
cane bottom chairs, an old-fashioned safe for
dishes. Milk and other perishable foods were
kept in a milk cooler. Water was carried by
bucketsful after being hand drawn from a
well, a quarter of a mile from camp.
Some of the families who camped were
Radford and Naomi Lane, Bill and Nannie
Rice, Carl and Alma Rice, Wiley and Ida
Turner, Philmer and Maude Watson, and
Oscar and Launa Bergman. A corner of the
church was curtained off for the minister and
family.
The cook was up at dawn and soon the
aroma of wood burning, coffee boiling, and
bacon frying had campers astir. Campers met
under the arbor for Scripture reading and
prayer followed by table grace. Campers took
turns feeding the pastor and his family.
Chores included camp cleanup and prepara-
tion of food for the noon meal.
At the morning service, worshipers testi-
fied, admitting their sins and praising God
for His goodness and mercy. On other days
there was Bible study. The afternoon was a
time of rest and visiting with camp neighbors.
Sometimes treks down the hill and a splash
in Hog Creek were enjoyable.
The evening meal was over by sundown.
Men and women met in separate groups, each
with a leader. People began arriving by
sundown for the evening service which waslow.,
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At-Mosheim School
The land around the town of Mosheim was
originally prairie land, owned by the King
heirs of Baltimore, Maryland. It was later
divided, sold, and put into cultivation.
Settlers from various places began coming
into this area and settled in this vicinity.
Among the first settlers were W.T. Poston,
Jerry Odle, Hugh Shafer, W.W. Vickrey, Joe
Mitchell, Bob Lowrance, J.L. Lyons, William
Miles, John Bailey, John Cummings, Jesse
Cummings, and Charles Williamson.
One of the first settlers, Jonathan Dansby,
came to Bosque County in 1850 with his
cattle. He pitched camp four miles northwest
of where present day Mosheim stands and
decided to stay in this area.
In 1886, the first store at Mosheim was
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, ,..well attended. The arbor was lighted by
flares.
Singing was the highlight of each service.
Everyone who could carry a tune as well as
those who couldn't took part. Singing was
accompanied by an old pump organ which
kept the organist's feet and hands busy. Two
organists of long service were Eula Rice and
Viola Lane. Mrs. Nannie Rice was a wonder-
ful song leader. Under her leadership, the
people "made a joyful noise unto the Lord."
Evening services were best attended. On
Sundays, people from miles around came for
the day. It was a time for kinfolk to visit, a
time for family reunions, a time for renewing
old acquaintances and a time for rededication
and acclamation of Christian faith. As the
camp meetings closed, the people assessed
results of the time and decided unanimously,
"It was good to have been there."
by Creola Poston Lane and Lourah
L. Hargis
MOSHEIM
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Mosheim School prior to the addition of the
"Alamo" front and other extensions.iANA
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