Who's Who at Palos Hills Christian Assembly

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  • Palos Hills Christian Assembly, Palos Hills, Cook, Chicagoland, IL (OB) +1879-2025+
    • Southside Gospel Hall +1879-1894; Alberta Hall 1894-1918; 69th & Halstead St. 1918-1923; 66th Place & Normal Blvd. Gospel Hall 1922-1929; Roberts Memorial Gospel Hall and/or 86th Street Assembly 1929-1969

Notable Families

Bernard family

  • George Bernard +1965 (1885-1965)

Boyd family

  • Hugh Boyd 1909-1955 (1888-1955)
  • Margaret Matilda Aicken Boyd 1914-1970? (1890-1970)

Bradshaw family

Carrick family

Thomas Carrick (Sr. or Jr.?) was an elder at PHCA.

  • Thomas Carrick (b. 1888 Dumbarton, Scot. - d. 1942 Chicago, IL)
  • Elizabeth Duff Miller Bitcon Carrick (b. 1891 Dumbarton, Scot. - d. 1989 Grand Rapids, MI).
    • Elizabeth Bitcon Carrick Weitemeyer (b. 1916 Dumbarton, Scotland - d. 2005 Antioch, Davidson, TN). Husband: George Louis Weitemeyer, Jr. (b. 1913 Chicago, IL - d. 1987 Nashville, Davidson, TN)
    • Thomas Carrick (b. 1920 Dumbarton, Scot. - d. 2000 Grand Rapids, MI). Wife: Tillie Hoekstra Carrick (b. 1920 South Holland Twp., Cook, IL - d. 2011 Grand Rapids, MI), daughter of George Hoekstra (b. 1894 Depew, Erie, NY - d. 1964 Sharon Hill, Delaware, PA) & Ida Vanderzee Hoekstra (b. 1897 South Holland Twp., Cook, IL - d. 1968 Chicago, IL).
    • Jane "Jean" Galloway Carrick VanHecke-Linkis (b. 1914 Dumbarton, Scot. - d. 1973 Chicago, IL). 1st husband: Theodore "Ted" VanHecke (b. 1910 Chi., IL - d. 1966 Orange Co., CA), son of Alphonse VanHecke (b. 1874 Wetteren, Belgium) & Maria Philippina DeKoster VanHecke (b. 1876 Belgium - d. 1919 Chi., IL)

Christensen family

  • Mrs. Anna Christensen 1896-1933 (1868-1933)
  • Chris Christensen

Cotton family

  • Andrew J. Cotton 1912-1956+
  • Jane Glass Cotton 1912-1974 (?-1974)

Dobson family

  • Herbert Gladstone Dobson 1942-1981 (1905-1981)
  • Irene Mae Boyd Dobson 1915-1969 (1915-1969)

Dunnett family

  • Ned Dunnett 1907-1973 (1890-1973)

Eadie family

  • Mabel Walker Eadie

Giles family

  • James Giles 1912-1945 (1879-1950); erected Roberts Memorial Gospel Hall in 1929 as a contractor;

Gould family

  • William Gould 1917-1973 (1887-1971)

Glass family

  • Richard K. Glass 1930-1941; 1945-1946 (1903-1946)

Godby family

  • Betty Pollard Godby

Hoekstra family

  • Miss Shirley Hoekstra +1966

Hueston family

  • Mrs. Marie Hueston - Hammond, IN

Johnson family

  • George J. Johnson +1940+ (d. 1949)

Kennedy family

  • James W. Kennedy +1965 (d. 1965)

Marshall family

  • David Forsyth Marshall 1925-1943+ (1925-2014)
  • Edward Forsyth Marshall 1916-1934+ (1916-1979)
  • Janet Forsyth Marshall-Christie 1911-1981? (1887-1981)
  • Robert Ross Marshall 1911-1925 (1890-1925)
  • Robert Forsyth Marshall 1918-1930 (1918-1930)

Nielson family

  • Mrs. Marie Nielson 1897-1920 (1864-1953)

Pollard family

Strance family

  • Jean Ross Marshall Strance 1914-1990's (1914-2006)
  • Joseph Charles Strance 1940-1958+ (1940-2016)
  • Kasmir Charles Strance 1935-1982 (1910-1982)
  • Janet Strance Murray 1940's - Dubuque, IA
  • Robert J/L Strance 1938-1956+ - La Grange, IL

Thomson family

  • Donald Thomson - father was SS supt when he was a boy; saved at 21, moved to what is now Beverly Bible Chapel

Walker family

  • George Walker
  • Margaret Walker
  • Mrs. Nina Walker 1923-1966 (1890-1966)
  • William Walker

Weitemeyer family

George & Margaret met at Emmaus University in 1962, and were married in Alameda Co., CA in 1964. Margaret was saved in 1956 under the ministry of Billy Graham at his Cow Palace crusade, and started attending Fairhaven Bible Chapel in California.

George Weitemeyer is at least the third George in his family. His father, George Louis Weitemeyer, was employed in Chicago as a printer in 1950. His maternal grandparents were Thomas Carrick (b. 1888 Dumbarton, Scot. - d. 1942 Chicago, IL) & Elizabeth Duff Miller Bitcon Carrick (b. 1891 Dumbarton, Scot. - d. 1989 Grand Rapids, MI). Regarding "Duff Miller", there was a silversmith called "Duff & Miller" on 50 Ropework Ln. in Glasgow, Scotland in the late 1880's. See Carrick family.

In 1950, Margaret's father, John Aston (1907-1974) was employed in Oakland in a sheet metal shop. John's father, John Thomas Aston (b. 1878 Indianapolis, IN - d. 1945 Livermore, Alameda, CA), was employed in the same industry in 1910 in East Saint Louis, Illinois, and previously as a butcher. John Sr.'s father was William Aston (b. 1842 Newland, Gloucestershire, England).

Margaret's maternal grandfather, Charles Edward Lewis (b. 1866 Atchison, KS - d. 1925) was a retired carpenter and painter who did business in Kansas City. Charles' father, Charles Sr. (b. 1839 NYC, NY; m. 1863 KC, KS; d. 1873 Helena, AR) served in the Civil War with the 2nd Regt. of the Kansas infantry, and was also a painter. Margaret's grandmother Rosa A. Black Lewis (b. 1871 Hannibal, MO) met her grandfather in Wichita in 1887 where they were married. Rosa's father was Alexander S. Black (b. 1828 Middletown, Dauphin, PA - d. 1891 Wyandotte Co., KS) who was a painter in Kansas City railroad shops in 1880, and there was one by his same name who served as an 2nd Lt. artist in the Civil War.

  • George Thomas Weitemeyer 1961-1964, son of George Louis Weitemeyer, Jr. (b. 1913 Chicago, IL - d. 1987 Nashville, Davidson, TN) & Elizabeth Bitcon Carrick Weitemeyer (b. 1916 Dumbarton, Scotland - d. 2005 Antioch, Davidson, TN).
  • Margaret Ann Aston Weitemeyer 1962-1963 (b. 1940 Oakland, Alameda, CA; m. 1964 Alameda Co., CA; d. 2022 Folsom, CA), daughter of John Wesley Aston (b. 1907 East St. Louis, IL - d. 1974 San Leandro, Alameda, CA) & Melba Dorothy Lewis Aston (b. 1912 Delaware Twp., Wyandotte, Kansas City metro, KS - d. 1968 Alameda, CA).
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