
Ford Family - July 1954
Greg, Doug, JoAnn, Dick Ford

Doug and Dick Ford - October, 1954


Dick's first church Lexington, Ind June 1953

Manse Summer 1953

Our first Manse Lexington, Ind. June 1953

Jo and Greg Lexington Manse June 1953

Manse - July 1954

Greg & JoAnn Ford and Freida & Frank Hounshell August 1953

August '53 Lexington

Back of JoAnn with Branham family - August '53

Freida & Frank Hounshell our new cocker Honey with their dog Jack - August '53

Greg Ford with Dale Renschler June 1953

Greg Ford and Leon Robbins

Winter 1954

Greg and new bike - Xmas Day 1953 in Lexington school yard

Christmas 1953 - Greg with Branham's store at left

Lexington church Winter '54

Manse - Winter '54

School house taken in front of Branham's store - Winter '53

Service Band picnic

JoAnn Ford (30 yrs old) holding Doug - Picnic with Service Band elder ladies and Betty Brown

Manse Mortgage burning ceremony in the basement on Labor Day, September 6, 1954
Members identified by numbers:
1. Clarence Robbins
2. Leon Robbins
3. Maude Bridgewater
4. Elizabeth Robinson
5. Tom Jones
6. Gregory Ford
7. Terry Jones
8. Beth Branham
9. Sherry Fouts
10. Branham
11. Corbin Fouts
12. Della Lowry
13. Ruth Lowry
14. Edith Fouts & Ricky Fouts
15. Prudence Robbins
16. Ethel Robbins
17. Blanche Fortune
18. Bill Branham
19. Anna Middleton
20. Helen Hall
21. Ethel Perrine
22. Irving Middleton
23. Jimmy LaMaster
24. Betty Brown
25. June Robinson
26. Cynthia LaMaster


July '54


Branham children Lexington, Ind. April, 1955

August 1955

JoAnn teaching the Bible - August 1955

JoAnn & Dick Greg and Doug - Summer 1955

September 1955


February 1956 - Jennings Farm

May 1956

Sept. '54 Jim, Jane, John, and Marie Huff

Arlene Bright

Arlene, Bobby, and Marlene Bright

Arlene and Marlene Bright

Bobby Bright

Grant Bright

Agnes & Bobby Bright

Bible School Class of '52 - Mary Francis McAlister, Phyllis Robbins, Kenton Robbins, Jaunita Reese, Barbra Moore, Betty Brown, Jim Hall, Jimmie Kleopfer

Church ball team of 1954 - won trophy of Todd-Dickey Parish


Mary Wilson and her class '54


Mary Wilson's S.S. Class '54 Front row: Betty, Barbra, Gwen, Gail, Sue, Juanita. Second row: Terry Barnes, Jimmy, Ronnie, Silas, Dale

Mrs. Erma Hutsell June 1, 1956

Cecil & Bertha Hall

Phyllis & Shirley

Porter & Mary Catherine Wilson

Elsie Sharp

Ruth & Horace F. Sharp taken at their home in Sellersburg, Ind.

Mom & Dad Sharp

Left to right: Toni Dean, Brenda Dean, Sheila Dean, Delores Sharp, Loretta Sharp

Robert Sharp

Loretta & Delores Sharp

Sheila & Toni

Clarence Robbins with grandchildren Karen Elaine and Kenton

Ernest "Mutt", Grace, Margaret, Patricia, and Phyllis Robbins

Ethel Robbins with nieces Patricia and Margaret Robbins

Leon Robbins

Clarence Robbins with grandchildren Leon, Karen Elaine, and Kenton Robbins

Phyllis & Margaret Robbins

Prudence Robbins with grandson Leon Robbins

Margaret Whitlatch and children

Coach Robinson's girls and Greg Ford - Winter 1953

Alice and boys

Keith Whitlatch


Elbridge & Carl Richard

Lowell and Margaret Whitlatch's children: Carol, Keith, and Carl

James, Barbra Dee & Mae Hutsell

Ella and Willie Jennings - 1961

Mae, Helen, Frank, Charles and James Wilson

Ella & Willie Jennings


Johnie & Judy

Ohio River at Hanover College

Mrs. Ethel Perrine

Mary & John

Blanche Fortune and Bess Noakes (sisters)

Robert, Gary, and Jimmie Kleopfer

Willie Fortune & Betty

Harold Brown & Betty

Margaret & Hardy Kimberlin

Blanch & Mitt - our Sunday School Superintendent

Marvin and Barbra Moore

Blanch Fortune

Greg Ford

The home at the top of the hill

Mrs. Florence Miller

Sharon and Betty

Mrs. DeArmand and Stevie

Stevie

Mitt watching a ballgame

Mitt, Bess, Merrill, Henrietta, and girls

Bess and granddaughters

Bess & Mitt Noakes

Bess and Mitt Noaks

Bess and Mitt Noakes - Christmas 1960

Bess and Mitt Noakes with the LaMaster children


Lexington ballgame

Mabel, Larry, and Dale Renschler in Virginia Beach, Virginia in 1953

Marie & Ronnie Renschler

Paula Clapp

Bonnie Renschler and Buddy Clapp with their dog Nero

Patsy Taflinger

Patsy and Phillip

Patsy Taftlinger Berry Rhonda and Tom - 1967

Mr. and Mrs. Charles McNeely

McNeely grandchildren

Ralph and Gladys Robinson and Elizabeth and June






Mrs. Florence Miller

Joann & Dick Ford with Doug after a service

December 1954

December 1954

Louise Branham on left - Evening Circle

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hall, Sr.

Frank and Dorothy Hall with Jimmy and Ronnie

Jim Hall



Mrs. Kate Wilson, Willard Middleton, Walter Middleton, Emma Bansmer, Irving Middleton


Marjorie Middleton

Irving and Estele Middleton - May 8, 1955 (Irving was ordained an Elder in 1920)


Nora Hollenbeck Apartments
This building stood on the southeast corner of Main and Cherry Streets. This is where Joseph H. Shea, United States Ambassador to Chile, was born in 1862. The building was demolished apx. 1980 and is the current site of the Lexington Township Volunteer Fire Department.

Lexington Presbyterian Church
This picture was taken before the Sunday School rooms were added to the west side of the building in 1934.

Dale & Irving Garage

Lexington School
This picture was taken before the gymnasium was added in 1967 and the north wing was added in 1983-84.

Hounshell Home
This home stands north of the current Manse on Mulberry Street. It served as our first Manse from 1868-1952.

Lexington Christian Church
This church is still in service and stands at 2804 South Alexander Street.
On April 26, 1852, the following data was filed in the Scott County Recorder's Office: "This is to certify that notice, being given by posting notices in three places ten days previous, that an election would take place on the 17th of April, 1852 by the Christian Church to elect trustees for said church, it being in contemplation to purchase a lot of erect a meeting house. Accordingly, the said church met in Lexington on the 17th of April, 1852; after appointing J.H. Hardy Clerk, said election proceeded to elect three trustees whereupon Henry Hollenbeck, Albert G. Mace, and Clinton R. Hardy were elected on unanimous vote."
Two lots were purchased from I.N. White for the sum of $40.00. The design of the church was typical of that time. The cost of the building was approximately $2,000.00 which was met by the brethren without help from any other congregation.

Lexington Baptist Church
This church was built in 1898 on the northeast corner of Walnut and Mulberry Streets where the Ponder home is currently located. Columbus and Eliza Shields sold the land to the Lexington Baptist trustees, Martin Hart, Stephen Lowry, and Andrew J. Robbins for $400.00. Services did not last long and membership began to dwindle and members either transferred to Kimberlin Creek Baptist Church 3 1/2 miles west or chose to join the Presbyterian and Christian churches. The building was sold to Thomas Loftus and named the Mary Anderson Theater and showed movies beginning June 9, 1917. It was also used for Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth grade classes during the 1921-1922 school years while the new school building was being built. In 1927, electricity was run to Lexington. A few days after electricity was hooked up to the building, it burned down on the night of May 11, 1927 after the showing of a movie.

Mother of God Catholic Church
This church stood on the northeast corner of Cherry and Walnut Streets where the current Post Office is located. The cornerstone was laid on August 5, 1892 by the Reverend Frank A. Roell, vicar of St. Mary's Church of New Albany. Total cost of the building was $3,000.00 and in February of 1893 the first mass was celebrated with the dedication taking place on Sunday, May 28, 1893. The church closed in 1937 and merged with the American Martyrs Catholic Church in Scottsburg. It was later used as a feed store and then was demolished in October of 1968 for the building of the present Post Office.

Lexington Methodist Church
This church stood on the southwest corner of Alexander and Walnut Streets with the front doors facing Alexander Street. The earliest definite record of Methodist work in Lexington is found in the Recorder's Office in Book J, page 102, where James V. White, Willis L. Traylor, Alfred Amick, Reese Morgan, and James H. Phillips were appointed trustees to hold property for the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1845. Services were held until it was sold in July 1913 when it merged with Pleasant Ridge Methodist Church. The building was later used as a community center for the Odd Fellows before it was demolished in April 1925.

Todd-Dickey Rural Training Parish churches in 1946

Owen Creek, Mt. Lebanon, and Bethlehem Presbyterian Churches of the Todd-Dickey Parish in 1946

Frank's Place and Anna's garage
These buildings stood on the south side of the Square on Main Street.

Clift's Grocery Store and home
This building stood on the south side of the Square on Main Street. It burned down on January 15, 1969.

Ray Robinson's home
This house stood on the northwest corner of Walnut and Mulberry Streets.

Emma Hutsell and Hardy Kimberlin homes
These house still stand today on the north side of the Square on Walnut Street.

Earl Milles' home and barber shop on Walnut Street on the northeast corner of the Square

Businesses on Cherry Street on the east side of the Square

Businesses on Cherry Street on the east side of the Square

Englishton Park

Santiago's grave at Englishton Park
Santiago was a horse owned by Captain William E. English that served him in the Spanish-American War. During a charge on San Juan Hill, it is said that Captain English was riding near Theodore Roosevelt when a cannonball exploded injuring Santiago. Captain English had Santiago sent back to Englishton Park where he lived out the rest of his life where he died in October of 1922 and was buried.

Ella Frances home at Englishton Park

Englishton Mansion

Lily and Goldfish Pond at Englishton Park

Sundial at Englishton Park

Summer Sunday School class

Sunday night group

Service Band

Christmas 1954

Cheri and Doug Ford

Frank Hounshell - August 1955

Christmas 1954

Branham children: Cherie, Jane, Jack, Bill, and Beth

Branham children: Beth, Jan, Cheri, Bill, and Jack





Connie and Sherry Fouts

Rick, Corbin, Sherry, and Connie Fouts

July 1955

July, 1955

July 1955


Lance Hounshell - son of Frank and Freida Hounshell

Paula Clapp

Mrs. Florence Miller

Florence Miller

Dr. Hannah - Moderator in 1956

Dr. Ralph Parvine - Moderator

Dick Ford - 1987
Dick Ford and his son, Doug, returned to visit Lexington in 1987.

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