Susan Eleanor Irvine and Edgar Benson Chenoweth
SUSAN ELEANOR IRVINE, daughter of MARGARET EMMA HUDSON and JAMES HOUSTON IRVINE, was born December 17, 1870 in Fairville, Saline, Missouri,456 and died April 19, 1963 in Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado.456 She is buried in Masonic Cemetery, Trinidad, Las Animas, Colorado.456
She married REV. EDGAR BENSON CHENOWETH on July 15, 1891 in Syracuse, Kiowa, Colorado.8261 He was born December 3, 1869 in Dardenne Prairie, St. Charles, Missouri,456 and died December 23, 1949 in Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado.456 He is buried in Masonic Cemetery, Trinidad, Las Animas, Colorado.456
Children of SUSAN ELEANOR IRVINE and REV. EDGAR BENSON CHENOWETH:
- PAUL DUNCAN CHENOWETH, b. December 23, 1892, Cortez, Montezuma, Colorado;4532 m. ELSIE LAURIE on April 15, 1922 in Trinidad, Las Animas, Colorado8261; d. May 23, 1947, Trinidad, Las Animas, Colorado.456
- MARGARET KATHERINE CHENOWETH, b. September 24, 1897, Oklahoma;456 d. October 9, 1993, Colorado.456
- ELEANOR RUTH CHENOWETH, b. May 26, 1900, Colorado;456 m. JAMES ALBERT CALLAWAY on October 10, 1921 in Trinidad, Las Animas, Colorado8261; d. August 9, 1975.456
- ALLIEN HATTIE CHENOWETH, b. December 25, 1902, Rye, Pueblo, Colorado;4532 m. (1) HAROLD MALCOLM DAVIES on July 4, 1920 in Trinidad, Las Animas, Colorado9409, m. (2) HAROLD MALCOLM DAVIES on January 24, 1927 in Jansen, Las Animas, Colorado9409, m. (3) ALFRED HERBERT MORRIS; d. June 20, 1988.4532
Personal Information
Edgar B. Chenoweth
- graduated from Westminster College, Fulton County, Missouri in 188810962
- was a minister
Marriage Announcements and News
Hamilton County Bulletin, July 17, 189110243
Wedding Bells
On the evening of July 15, at the residence of the bride's parents, Miss Eleanor Irvine was united in marriage to Rev. E. B. Chenowith of Sheridan Lake Colo. Rev. Geo. Needham of Denver pronounced the marriage ceremony in a beautiful and impressive manner. The bride is known here as a highly cultivated young lady, and one in every way worthy to become the wife and life associate of the excellent young man she has wed. The groom is a young divne with bright prospects for advancement in the profession he has chosen. The following friends of the bride and groom were present: Mr. Mrs. Lessenger and daughter Blanche, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Bray, Mrs. Welch, Mrs. Ed Brown, Misses Cora Hurst, Mollie Collier, Helen Rodgers and Susie Worden, Messrs. Geo.. Irwin, J. T. Collier, Edgar Collier, Tommy Collier, Monroe Worden, Ralph Worden, M. A. Lester, Carg Inge, Geo Hurst, Jimmie Pratt, Glen and Willis Gammage. The BULLETIN extends hearty congratulation to Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Chenoweth and hopes that their future may be bright and unclouded.
Newspaper Articles
Tulsa Daily World, June 11, 195010315
Tulsa Boston Avenue Methodist Church Monument to Pioneer Minister's Faith
Stemming from a humble beginning, Tulsa's Boston Avenue Methodist church today stands as a monument to the faith, devotion and energy of a pioneer minister—the Rev. Edgar Benson Chenoweth.
The Tulsa edifice that houses Methodism's seventh largest congregation grew from a simple brush arbor built beside the Frisco tracks in 1893 by the hands of Rev. Chenoweth, who recently died in a Pueblo, Colo., hospital.
Tulsa Indian Territory, was little more than a handful of general stores when Rev. Chenoweth was sent here from Colorado to establish Tulsa's first Methodist Episcopal church, South.
"When i arrived there in November, 1893," the pioneer pastor later wrote Dr. Fred S. Clinton, "there were about 30 or 40 families in or accessible to Tulsa," then just "a staked-out town."
With his wife and infant son, the young minister had traveled in a spring wagon "behind two western ponies" from the southwest corner of Colorado to the Methodist conference at Vinita, then back to Tulsa.
"The only place I could find on arriving that I could move into," he wrote, "was a little 8 by 10 plain box shack one mile north of the depot, on the river bank in the Perryman woods pasture."
The new pastor rented the shack at the river crossing for $1 per month and there he and his small family spent the Winter and most of the first year.
With his family settled, wrote the minister, "I got busy."
"After obtaining the consent of the railroad and section foremen, I cleaned the brush across the new Frisco tracks and in front of the depot on railroad right-of-way.
"There I dug the holes, cut forks for posts and poles for the top, set them, then set the brush cover, there being no lumber.
"The railroad officers permitted me to seat this arbor with railroad ties, new ones, just unloaded."
Across the ties were stretched borrowed planks, and down on the river bank where laborers had camped, the church-builder found a 100-pound coffee box.
"This I used for a pulpit for conducting the service the day of the opening.
There originated Tulsa's first Methodist Episcopal church, South. From that pine box pulpit in that brush-roofed church, grew a congregation of more than 5,000 and a modern gothic church edifice acclaimed as one of America's outstanding works of church architecture. This in less than 40 years.
"Before break of the opening day," wrote Rev. Chenoweth, "trains were coming in loaded with passengers, bedding and baggage. By evening time campfires and people covered the hillside for quite a distance. They were also crowded around the depot in vast numbers.
"There by lantern light that night I preached to a mass of people and continued to do so for several days, also offering church fellowship to those becoming settled and remaining close enough for church fellowship.
"It was under such conditions," the letter concluded, "that Boston Avenue Methodist church had to make its start, and I was happy to be with them."
From that first location north of 1st st. and west of Main st. now buried in the roaring clutter of industrial development, the little church moved eventually across the tracks and by stages to its present location at 13th st. and Boston ave. growing as it went.
Rev. Chenoweth was permitted only a three-year stay in the Tulsa pastorate, according to conference regulations of that time.
But the impression of his pioneer energy and the force of his simple devotion remained an inspiration for the church builders who followed.
"The present membership is well aware," recently wrote Mrs. Beulah Goeppinger, Boston Avenue librarian, "of the heritage of sacrifice that has been made by early ministers and lay members through the progressive states of development up to and including the present structure.
"We can offer no finer tribute than to enshrine their names in the living memory of our living church.
Rev. Chenoweth was born December 3, 1869 on Dardenne Prairie, St. Charles county, Mo., of parents originally from Maryland and Virginia.
The greater part of his ministry was in Texas. Following his Tulsa tenure he went to El Reno and later to other points in Indian Territory. He was transferred to the Northwest Texas conference in 1908 and later was sent to the Waco district where he played a distinguished role in the development of Southwestern university at Georgetown, and of Methodism throughout the Southwest.
Census Records
| Date | Location | Enumerated Names |
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| June 5, 18808957 | Miami, Saline, Missouri | |
| June 16, 190010314 | Huerfano County, Colorado |
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| May 5, 191010312 | Bartlett, Williamson, Texas |
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| May 5, 191010312 | Bartlett, Williamson, Texas |
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| January 13, 192010313 | Trinidad, Las Animas, Colorado |
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| April 4, 195010316 | Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado |
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