The Women's Missionary Society

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="0a5d05a3.jpg"> <div> Orange County, New York</div> <div> American History and Genealogy Project</div> <div> The Women's Missionary Society</div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="0a6d2123.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/orange/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/or"><U>Orange County AHGP/ALHN</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/state/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/state/"><U>New York AHGP/ALHN</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://ahgp.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://ahgp.org"><U>AHGP</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://alhn.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://alhn.org"><U>ALHN</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="624" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 976 WIDTH="622"><div>  <A NAME="the_women_s_missionary_society"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Georgia" >     This is probably the most thorough working society of the Church.  In response to an invitation to the ladies of the congregation to remain after the prayer meeting one evening in March 1880, a beginning was made, with earnest thought and prayer, opening a way to organize a Women's Missionary Society.</FONT></div> <div>      Our Hudson Presbyterial Society had its birth, as well as our own, in the basement room of this Church, the mother society preceding our organization by one day, making the way clear to us.</div> <div>      On the 18th of March, 1880, we were regularly organized by Miss Loring, a returned missionary from Syria, with the thirty-seven following names as members:</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="496" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 291 WIDTH="45"><div> Mrs.</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div> Miss</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="208"><div> T. A. Leggett,</div> <div> Lucretia Conklin,</div> <div> Mary A. Wood,</div> <div> Sarah Roe,</div> <div> James M. Bull,</div> <div> George Seely,  </div> <div> William Vail,</div> <div> Ely Conklin</div> <div> D. A. Conklin,</div> <div> G. F. Andrews,</div> <div> Harmon Showers,</div> <div> Harriet Brown,  </div> <div> Lizzie Howell,</div> <div> Mary King,</div> <div> Helen King,</div> <div> Lizzie King,</div> <div> Hattie Kinner,</div> <div> Kate A. “Vankleek,</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="45"><div> Miss</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> <div>   “</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Emily Andrews,</div> <div> Amelia Andrews,</div> <div> Sarah Andrews,</div> <div> Lizzie Board,</div> <div> Bell Clark,</div> <div> Phebe Durland,</div> <div> Mame Durland,</div> <div> Carrie R. Durland,</div> <div> Emma Duryea,</div> <div> Libbie Duryea,</div> <div> Allie Duryea,</div> <div> Cornelia Edmondston,</div> <div> Ruth M. Everts,</div> <div> Francis W. Leggett,</div> <div> Hannah Roe,</div> <div> M. Belle Seely,</div> <div> Mattie A. Seely,</div> <div> Mary Seely,</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> Miss Julia Seely.</div> <div>      Having Mrs. Theodore A. Leggett for President, Miss Mary King, Vice-President; Miss Carrie R. Durland, Secretary; Miss Hannah Roe, Treasurer.</div> <div>      Miss Loring's words of helpful direction counseling to open our meetings with prayer seemed almost beyond our ability.  Does not this spiritual condition make known the need of a missionary society for ourselves?  But our object was to work and pray in connection with other societies in the Presbytery of Hudson, to aid the Women's Home and Foreign Mission Boards of New York in sending out missionaries and sustaining them in their work.</div> <div>      At the end of the first year our membership had grown to the number of fifty, which number we held for several years.  In passing time many of these members have moved away, twelve have been called home by the Master, while others have taken up the work. Our membership at present numbers thirty-eight, having for President, Miss Carrie R. Durland; 1st Vice-President, Mrs. R. H. McCready; 2d Vice-President, Mrs. F. B. Seely; 3d Vice-President, Mrs. Henry M. Roe; Secretary, Miss Belle Seely; Treasurer, Miss Jane T. Durland.</div> <div>      We have given to be used in mission work $3,000, an average of $166 per year.  Only the Master knoweth in what spirit and how near it reaches the measure He has set.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <A NAME="the_king_s_daughters_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>The King's Daughters.</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Georgia" >    </FONT> The Society was organized in 1898.  It is not in any sense denominational, but was brought into existence through the great necessity which the Presbyterian Church felt in relation to the unsystematized charity work of the community.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="392" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 64 ><NOBR><div> Mrs. Helen B. Seely, </div> <div> Mrs. Anna R. Pennoyer, </div> <div> Miss Josie Thompson, </div> <div> Mrs. Theodore Masterson,  </div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="190"><div>       President.</div> <div>   Secretary.</div> <div> Assistant Secretary.</div> <div> Treasurer.</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div>      There are nine committees, each with a separate line of work.  All work is reported at each monthly meeting.</div> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="pg43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Sunday School"><U>Next Page</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="pg1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Table of Contents"><U>Table of Contents</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>