Thursday, March 20, 2008
1908 - 1918
One of the first families to join Ellison Avenue in 1908 was the Myron Proctor family. Mrs. Anna Proctor and her five daughters, Grace, Mabel, Maude, Zelda and Ruth Ann are listed on the orginal charter membership. When Maude was much older, she told how she and Mabel teased their younger sister, Zelda, by telling her that she no longer had a name because it was sealed up in the cornerstone of the church. Mrs. Proctor taught a Sunday School class, and the girls participated in several roles. Because the Proctor's lived next door to the preacher behind the church on Hadden Street, Mabel and Maude would be sent to the church early on winter mornings to bring coal up from the basement and start a fire in the sanctuary stove. The names of Mabel and Grace are listed in a 1911 Christmas booklet listing members of the Keystone League of Christian Endeavor of the Evangelical Church in El Reno, Oklahoma. Other members included Guy Lanman, Augusta Klingbell, Mrs. F. J. Filkins, Mike Leonard, Eunice Dillingham, Peal Carr, Pansy Hunter, Mrs. Keher, Lillabell Bondurant, Bessie Stines, Tina Hunter, Chas. Keher, Lester Stines, Lorene Conlee, Edith Stines, Arthur Powers, Edith York, Fern Carr, Mrs. Proctor, Maude Blakeburn, Anna Bordeaux, and Emma Buss. Although the Proctor moved from El Reno in the 1920's, Mabel Proctor Ashton kept her membership and her memories of Ellison Avenue Evangelical Church. In fact, she shared those memories often with me, her granddaughter, Sharon Ashton Wilbur.
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