Revision as of 07:25, 8 June 2025

Troost Avenue Gospel Hall, Kansas City, MO (OB) 1883-1984

Families

Some of these individuals may not have been at Troost, but part of other KC area assemblies, or visiting itinerants. Help requested identifying these.

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• "Hobo Billy" (North End KC) 1903+

Allsman family

• George R. Allsman

Altergott family

Alice Strayer recalls that Jake’s family was from Russia, he was employed as a tailor, and made the announcements.

• Jake Altergott ‘’’+1949+’’’
  • Alice Altergott Gill. Husband: Forest Gill
  • Marie Altergott Sommerville. Husband: Will Sommerville.

Baker family

• Caleb J. Baker +1904+

Baldwin family

• H.S. Baldwin 1966-1976 corr OPBC

Beard family

• Ron Beard
• Annabelle Beard

Bewick family

• Leonard Bewick, Sr. 1889-1936
• Stephen C. Bewick 1897-1913
• Mrs. Georgia Bewick +1895+

Bobbitt family

• Elizabeth Anna Meschkat Bobbitt +1889-1893

Bohling family

• J.W. Bohling

Bollin family

• Louis Bollin 1926-present
• Oscar Bollin
• Walter Bollin
• Beulah Jane Stubbs Bollin +1925-1932
• Mrs. Irene Bollin 1947-present
• May J. Tietge Bollin 1898-

Buelick family

• Anna Caroline Funk Buelick +1955-1965 Overland Park

Burlison family

• Jeanette Louise Scott Burlison 1906-1939

Carnie family

• H.G. Carnie 1890-1920

Charles family

• Hughina Ross Charles 1880's-1916

Cole family

• C. Donald Cole

Cook family

• Athoyl Cook 1936
• Mrs. Athoyl Cook 1936
• William Cook 1928

Corkill family

@ 12th St. Assembly

• Charles Corkill
• Elaine Engle Corkill

Crescencia family

• Victor Crescencia 1926-1936

Dawber family

• James H. Dawber 1973-1976
• Grace Dawber

Dickson family

Alice Strayer recollected in '25 that in the 1940's, Fred would record the names of attendees in a ledger as they would walk into meetings. It is currently unknown whether this ledger has survived.

• Fred Stanley Arnot Dickson 1917-1974
• Mrs. Annie Dickson ?

Eby family

• Ruth Margaret Hayward Eby 1937-1940+

Findlay family

• John Findlay +1901 KCMO

Fletcher family

• Calvin Fletcher +1965-2000

Francis family

• Frank Francis

Frank family

• Eva Meschkat Frank 1891-1892

Fulton family

• James Fulton - 1904 Correspondent Harrison Street Gospel Hall

Gates family

• Caleb Gates +1952
• Dedra Gates +1952

Gill family

• Forest E. Gill

Glenn family

• Elwood Curtis Glenn +1936-1979 Elder @ Troost +1946+
• Bernice Ruth Ackerman Glenn 1918-1972

Gray family

• George Gray 1936-1946+

Gunn family

• E.S. Gunn

Haas family

• Mrs. Elizabeth Haas 1896-1902 KCKS

Hayward family

• Margaret Sommerville Hayward +1930-1940+
• Ray Hayward
• William Henry Hayward +1930-1949’’’
• William Albert Hayward +1930-1940+

Jamison family

• Joseph Jamison +1889-1893
• Elizabeth Mills Jamison +1889-1893

John family

• C.C. John

Johnson family

• William Johnson - corr KC Gospel Hall, KCMO

Kendrick family

• Leroy Leonard Kendrick 1888-1889+
• Nellie Edna Kendrick 1888-1889+

Littlefield family

Dr. Ralph Littlefield started an optometrist business in the Kansas City metro in 1909, succeeded by his son, grandson and great-grandson. The latter, Dr. David Littlefield, retired in July 2024, mentoring the current owners of Midwest Family Eyecare after forty years in practice.

Dr. Lawrence Littlefield was the first optometrist in the KC metro to start fitting customers with contact lenses in the 1950's, and has patents on contact lens manufacturing machines, as per Yelp.com, mentioned in '25 by Alice Strayer.

• Dr. Ralph E. Littlefield +1946-1952+

Lockwood family

• Dr. Lockwood 1916

McGowan family

• Robert McGowan

McKendrick family

• James M. McKendrick 1968-1973

McNinch family

• J.R. McNinch

McPherson family

• Mr. McPherson 1949 blind and without hands, read Bible with tongue 40 years

Matthews family

Wayne was a co-founder in 1949 of what is now Bible Chapel of Shawnee, KCKS, along with Bill Hayward.

• Wayne Matthews +1946-1949

Meschkat family

• Welhelm Meschkat 1889-1892
• Amalie Therese Greenburg Meschkat 1889-1892
  • Alfred Meschkat 1892

Miller family

• A.B. Miller 1902 KC; 1912 KS Itinerant; 1930 Editor "Milk of the Word" St. Louis
• W.J. Miller 1912-1913

Moffatt family

• Moffatt 1906

Moss family

• C.S. Moss 1902 itinerant KCKS

Page family

• Truman Page

Peterson family

• Mrs. Arthur Peterson +1916+

Rankin family

• John Rankin

Rendall family

• George B. Rendall +1895-1935+

Rockhold family

• Ernie Rockhold
• Lyle Rockhold
• Robert Rockhold

Ross family

• C.W. Ross +1908-1937+
• Donald Ross +1906+

Scott family

• Arthur Warren Scott 1920-1941+
• Dennis Watson Scott Jr. 1915-1930+
• Dennis Watson Scott Sr. +1900-1940+
• Alan Leroy Scott
• Leon Scott
• Robert W. Scott 1917-1935+
• Walter Herman Scott 1910-1930
• Harriette Dorothy Scott Jones-Palmer 1918-1936
• Grace Sale Burton Scott +1900-1968
• Nellie R. Scott 1912-1940+
• Norma Burton Scott 1900-1915+
• Virginia Lavinia Scott 1915-1930+

Secor family

• R.M. Secor +1917+

Shea family

• Vincent Shea +1938
• Grace Shea +1938
• Mrs. Pearl Shea +1938

Sheldrake family

originally commended from Troost

• Leonard John Sheldrake Sr. +1949+
• Pearl Ada Clapp Sheldrake

Simpson family

• Albert Norman Simpson +1899-1947+
• James Alexander Simpson +1889-1920+
• James Simpson Sr. +1889-1931+
• Walter George Simpson +1902-1920+
• William "Will" Rigg Simpson +1890-1920+. Will served as an associate editor of Letters of Interest from June of 1944 thru Dec. 1968. By 1965, he resided in Los Angeles, California.
• Annabell Simpson-Dilday 1893-1930
• Mary Jane Rigg Simpson 1889-1952

Sommerville family

• Duncan Sommerville
• Harry Sommerville
• William Sommerville 1906, 1917, 1948
• William David Sommerville 1928-1960
• Mrs. Jo Ann Sommerville 1960
• Lucille Sommerville

Sorenson family

• Margaret August Sorenson +1897-1947+

Staley family

• Lloyd M. Staley +1949+

Stoltfus family

• Jacob M. Stoltfus 1904-1913 founder Olathe Gospel Hall from Lancaster, PA

Strayer family

Bill Hayward was among the founders of the Bible Chapel of Shawnee in 1949, along with his wife's cousin Wayne Matthews. In 1952, he and his family were transferred by his employment as an industrial engineer at Procter & Gamble to an office in northern California. In 1934, his job was "timekeeper" at P&G. Bill's birthplace was in Sparta, Illinois and there is a high likelihood that he was in fellowship at the Sparta Gospel Hall there as his maternal grandfather, William Charles Sommerville, Sr. (b. 1849 Colliertree, New Monkland (Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scot. - d. 1918 Dallas, TX), was a primary correspondent there in 1904. William's wife was Isabella Livingstone Anderson Sommerville (b. 1855 Cambusnethan, Lanark, Scot. - d. ???).

• William "Bill" Albert Hayward +1930-1949 (b. 1911 Sparta, Randolph, IL - d. 1970 Citrus Heights, Sacramento, CA), son of William Hayward (b. 1873 Horwich, Bolton metro, Greater Manchester, England - d. 1954 Claremont, Los Angeles, CA) & Margaret Sommerville Hayward (b. 1876 Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland - d. 1958 Claremont, L.A., CA).
• Ruth A. Leask Hayward-Kelly 1929-1949 (b. 1910 Waterloo, Black Hawk, IA - d. 2011 CA), daughter of William Leask, Sr. (b. 1855 South Shields, South Tyneside, Tyne & Wear, Eng. - d. 1940 Dunkerton, Black Hawk, IA) & Alice Ramsay Kerr Leask (b. 1877 Edinburgh, Scot.; m. 1908 Philadelphia, PA; d. 1935 Waterloo, IA). Alice's memorial was held at [[Waterloo Gospel Hall, IA|Western Avenue Gospel Hall] in Waterloo, the serviceofficiated by Edgar Greeley Matthews (1869-1960). In 1881, Alice's family resided at 1 East Thomas St. in Edinburgh, possibly where she was born. Her father, John Gordon Kerr (b. 1851 Dalkeith, Lothian, Scot. - d. 1894 Newbattle, Lothian, Scot.), Ruth's maternal grandfather, was employed in 1881 as a house painter, by 1891 as a coal miner, and evidently died in the Lingerwood Coal Pit at the age of 43 after an "explosion of shot", as per Ancestry.com. See Who's Who at Waterloo Gospel Hall, IA for expanded detail on the Leask family, as pertains to Alice's brother William Hewison Leask, Jr. (1882-1972).
  • Alice Margaret Hayward Strayer 1935-1949 (b. 1935 Johnson Co., KS). Her husband was raised at Parkside Gospel Chapel in San Francisco, CA. Alice remained in Kansas City 1952-1953 to finish out her senior year at the original Shawnee Mission High School, while residing with her cousin Wayne Matthews and his family. She attended Kansas Bible Camp which met in the 1940's at a rented location at a YMCA camp near Stafford.

Thomas family

• Larry R. Thomas

Toombs family

• Gary Toombs

Trevolt family

• N. Keith Trevolt 1972
• N. Keith Trevolt II

Wally family

• Mrs. Joseph "Grandma" Wally 1893-1903  

Warden family

• William Warden +1895-1935+

Washington family

• Ernest Fairfield Washington +1937+

Williams family

• John D. Williams
• Ray H. Williams
• Rosie Williams

Wills family

• J.C. Wills

Woodruff family

• Elizabeth Opal Woodruff +1965