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Michigan Adventist History Self-Guided Tour Michigan Adventist History Self-guided Tour Produced by the Welcome! Allegan County We hope you enjoy your tour of Adventist History sites in Michigan. This self-guided tour pamphlet is organized by counties within Michigan. This will help you plan your trip to visit sites near each other. Google Maps (or another online direction generator) can provide directions to these locations. GPS coordinates are included with many of the locations. How to enter GPS coordinates into Google Maps: The following are sample coordinates: 41 degrees 05.625 minutes North 90 degrees 12.500 minutes West Enter the above sample coordinates Greenville into Google Maps as: Grand Rapids 41 05.625 - 90 12.500 or 41.05625 - 90.12500 Allegan SDA church Monterey Allegan 229 Cutler Street Lansing Allegan, Michigan Grand Ledge N 42° 31’ 46.851” Berrien Springs W 85° 51’ 5.988” 2 Allegan Adventist Church J. N. Andrews reported on the dedication ser- vices held in Allegan on May 29, 1864. Here is what he wrote: Our bretheren at this place have erected a very tasty and commodious yet plain and modest house of worship. The dedication services were a little disturbed by the own- ers of a church which stands within a few feet of ours. For soon after the services in our house were fairly commenced the bell of this church began to ring--though at an hour unusual with them--and was kept up till near the close of the discourse. Our windows being open and the houses Allegan church, Allegan, MI (2013) immediately adjoining each other we had the full benefit of what was doubtless a preconcerted annoyance. In the evening we had a good season in worship at this house of prayer and also the following evening. (RH, vol. 24, 1864, p. 30) Allegan is also the location from which Edson White’s mission boat, Morning Star, was launched. Interior of the Allegan church, Allegan, MI Morning Star 3 Allegan County Joseph and Prudence Bates Joseph Bates retired from a life at sea while in early mid-life with a comfortable sum of over $10,000. He built a home in Fairhaven, Massachusetts for his wife Prudence and became involved in various causes such as temperance, the abolitionist move- ment, and the Christian Connexion church. Most important though was his accepting the Millerite message in the fall of 1839. He used up most of his resources in these causes. After 1844 Bates was instrumental in establishing key theological foundations for the Seventh-day Adventist church, including linking the Sabbath to the end-time min- istry of Jesus in the Most Holy Place of the heav- enly sanctuary. During the 1850s Bates was the premier evangelist of Sabbatarian Adventism. He brought the message to many of the second-gener- ation leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist church. He retired from active labor when he moved to a Site of Monterey SDA church Bates’ Grave little house in Monterey, Michigan. Monterey is Birch Tree Cemetery Near 1013 Tunk Lake Road now a part of Allegan. He purchased the prop- Near 185 Tunk Lake Road erty for his retirement home in 1860 from John S. N 44° 33.306’ Day. Bates remained active for the remainder of N 44° 51.346’ W 068° 06.233’ his life. He passed away on March 19, 1872, at the age of 79. He is buried with his wife in Poplar Hill W 068° 14.548’ Cemetery, in Monterey, Michigan. 4 Joseph Bates Bates home in Monterey, MI (below in 2013) Prudence Bates 5 Allegan County Poplar Hill Cemetery, Monterey At the beginning of May 1868, James and Ellen feelings of his brethren toward him. Had they White came to Monterey. James White spoke on regarded the lesson taught by Christ, they would Luke 15:1-7 and the parable of the lost sheep. It have been willing to yield their dignity and pride, moved the congregation. Visits were made to and go after the wandering ones. They would those who were no longer attending. Especially have wept over them, prayed for them, implored mentioned was George T. Lay who had a long his- them to be faithful to God, and the truth, and tory with the church. He took a “noble stand” after abide with the church. But the feeling of many some members confessed to him and he to them. was: If he wants to go, let him go.” (Ellen G. White, Testimony for the Churches at Allegan But the revival was short-lived. “A state of & Monterey (Battle Creek, MI: Seventh-day backsliding came upon a large portion of Adventist Publishing, 1869). the church.” Ellen White received a specific vision Marker for the Lay family graves about individuals. This tes- timony was published in a tract and distributed in the region. She mentioned George T. Lay who had made a movement to come back to the church. “They stood back in their dignity, and said, ‘We will not go after him; let him come to us.’ It was impossible for him Joseph and Prudence Bates’ graves, Monterey, MI to do this as he viewed the Old grave marker for Joseph and Prudence Bates 6 Berrien County Calhoun County Andrews University Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center Graves of Adventist Pioneers 8975 Old-US 31 (former Battle Creek Sanitarium) Oak Hill Cemetery Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104 74 North Washington Avenue 255 South Avenue Battle Creek, Michigan Battle Creek, Michigan N 41° 57’ 31.186” W 86° 21’ 31.836” N 42° 19’ 35.668” N 42° 18’ 29.003” W 85° 11’ 23.822” W 85° 10’ 46.012” 7 Calhoun County Oak Hill Cemetery When you drive through the cemetery gate and go left past the office you will notice a state his- torical marker about one hundred feet up the street. This marker tells about James and Ellen White and is placed near the White family burial plot. Also buried in the plot are their four sons, daughters-in-law, James’ parents, and a close family friend Clarissa M. Bonfoey. Many others associated with the Seventh-day Adventist church are buried in this cemetery. Among them are the first General Conference President John Byington; longtime Review and White family burial plots Herald editor Uriah Smith; the brothers of cereal company fame William K. Kellogg and John Harvey Kellogg; Ellen White’s nephew Flags like the one and prolific hymn writer Frank Belden; author above have been and professor Arthur W. Spaulding; founding placed near many of the graves of professor of Battle Creek College Goodloe those related to Harper Bell; David Hewitt the first Seventh-day Seventh-day Ad- ventism. Adventist in Battle Creek and many others. Other people of note buried in the cemetery are C. W. Post and Sojourner Truth. Oak Hill Cemetery Battle Creek, MI (2007) Goodloe Harper Bell grave 8 Oak Hill Cemetery EAST AVENUE 255 South Avenue 4 Battle Creek, MI 3 616.964.7321 BUILDINGS A. Office B. Storage Vault C. Nichols Mausoleum D. C. W. Post Mausoleum 4TH STREET 4TH STREET 6TH STREET 7TH STREET 8TH STREET 9TH 3RD STREET 3RD 2ND STREET 2ND E. Chapel STREET 10TH STREET 11TH STREET 12TH STREET 13TH F. Crematory G. Maintenance Building POINTS OF INTEREST 1. Ellen White 2. Sojourner Truth CENTER STREET 3. W. K. Kellogg 4. Dr. J. H. Kellogg LEGION CIRCLE C OAK AVENUE 2 1 D SUMMIT STREET B F A E WEST AVENUE ENTRANCE SOUTH AVENUE G Calhoun County Historic Adventist Village Godsmark House Burlington SDA church 482 Van Buren Street Bedford, Michigan 320 West Main Street Battle Creek, Michigan 49037 Burlington, Michigan 49029 (517) 765-8304 N 42° 19’ 38.358” W 85° 11’ 53.734” N 42° 6’ 18.894” W 85° 4’ 57.138” 10 Cass County Eaton County E. J. Waggoner grave Old Rugged Cross Church Irving Guilford grave Boynton Hill Road 33053 Crystal Springs Street Strange Cemetery Burlington, Michigan Dowagiac, Michigan 8858 Oneida Road Grand Ledge, Michigan N 42° 46.720’ N 41° 55’ 32.463” W 071° 52.272’ W 86° 12’ 16.896” N 42° 41.721 W 084° 46.731’ 11 Eaton County Irving Guilford In 1831 or 1833 Miller promised the Lord that if he received an invitation to speak he would consider it a sign that he should begin a preach- ing career. To his amazement and chagrin, within half an hour, his nephew Irving Guilford arrived from Dresden, New York, with the invi- tation to speak on Sunday. Miller left Irving at the door and went into the maple grove where he wrestled with God until he found peace. His daughter, Lucy, remembered observing the ges- tures of intensity by her father during his time in the grove. Miller was still a farmer and Justice of the Peace in his own thinking when he went into the grove, but he came out a preacher. William Miller Irving Guilford’s grave William Miller’s home in Low Hampton, NY (2016) 12 Genesee County Kalamazoo County Montcalm County Blossom Cemetery Jones and Van Horn graves White Home Corner of Blossom Road Riverview Cemetery 7442 Highway 57 and Ralston Road 1015 Gull Road (Carson City Road) Colon, Michigan, 49040 Kalamazoo, Michigan Greenville, Michigan N 42° 0’ 58.792” N 43° 10’ 14.73” W 85° 16’ 24.782” W 85° 13’ 19.859” 13 Montcalm County White Home in Greenville It was a happy day for the Whites—James, Ellen, In the spring there were fruit trees to be set and Willie, now 12—when on Thursday, May 2, out and gardens to be made.
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