Actually that "small" college in Fayette has many extension colleges around the U.S thus has large perimeters now. -----Original Message----- From: Pat & Julie Phillips <pjphillips@socket.net> To: MOHOWARD-L@rootsweb.com <MOHOWARD-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 11:20 PM Subject: Re: [MOHOWARD-L] Help - college in Fayette >Funny you should mention this because these people are my gr-gr-grandparents >!! > >They were married in the Chapel of "Central" College, now known as Central >Methodist College. It's a small (1,000 students) liberal arts college >affiliated with the United Methodist Church. > >Louisa's father was Prof. Francis Xavier Forster and he was an ordained >Methodist Minister and teacher there for several years. You may see his >name listed on a few marriage records in Howard County from the 1870's. >Ironically, I graduated from there in 1990, over a hundred years after he >taught there. Louisa was very active in the early public education in >Fayette and Howard County. She is mentioned in the History of Howard and >Cooper Counties, 1883 as being a school teacher. Of course she gave that up >when she married and began having children. Sadly, she died at the ripe old >age of 36 (in 1885) leaving her husband with 5 small children to raise on >his own. > >That's probably more information than you wanted to know, but that's the >scoop. > >Patrick Phillips >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Carolyn Gibbons" <c.n.gibbons@worldnet.att.net> >To: <MOHOWARD-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 10:23 PM >Subject: [MOHOWARD-L] Help - college in Fayette > > >> While looking at the marriages, I came across something I am having >trouble reading (is that a surprise?) >> >> Marriage on 14 Mar 1872 William J Brooks and Miss Louisa C Foster were >married in the Chapel of ______________ (looks kind of like Cleaton or >Ceatrine) College, Fayette, Howard County MO on this day. By J C Wills?, MG >> >> Can anyone tell me what the name of the college is? >> >> Carolyn >> >