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“The story lives on in builders’ descendants”
by Susan Wilson
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The frame rectory was built on the hill just west of the church. The log Sunday school erected to the east was also used as the Orange lodge. Whatham organized a night school there for adults who had not had a chance to get an education. One of the students was Norma McCrea Noble’s father who attended from about the age of 20. The building served as Orange Lodge #1114 until 1909, when the group moved to Wilberforce. The structure gradually deteriorated until it had to be taken down.
Whatham’s circuit included Bear Lake which he was only able to reach because of a trail he himself cut through from Essonville. It is still known as Whatham’s Trail (although the Monmouth Centennial Book and the Land Register for Monmouth in the County Registry Office in Minden both give his name as Whatham, many people pronounce it as Waltham – a possible source of confusion).
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