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Miriam <I>Acree</I> Brock

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Miriam Acree Brock

Birth
King and Queen County, Virginia, USA
Death
Oct 1969 (aged 86–87)
Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA
Burial
Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sec K, Lot 208
Memorial ID
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daughter of Rev. Dr. Robert Roland & Ruth (Bagby) Acree; wife of W.E. Sr.
Married W.E. Brock in Clarksville, Montgomery Co., TN on 14 Jan 1903.

In the summer of 1921, Mrs. Brock began a project for Black people with a bible study in the basement of Phillip's Memorial Methodist Church. It was opened in October of 1921, at 1215 Grove Street. In 1926 the work was moved to 1401 College St. as a result of the generosity of Mary Caldwell donating a two-story brick home making a memorial to her father, a minister of the Baltimore Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church. The Bethlehem House had clubs for 200 participants from a wide range of age groups learning arts, crafts, recreational activities and providing a place for needed educational assistance. The Urban Renewal Program, highway and industrial additions, on the west side of Chattanooga included the site of the Bethlehem House. A building program for the West 38th Street site began the move of the ministry to the Alton Park Community.
Re: The Bethlehem Center, http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_101624.asp
daughter of Rev. Dr. Robert Roland & Ruth (Bagby) Acree; wife of W.E. Sr.
Married W.E. Brock in Clarksville, Montgomery Co., TN on 14 Jan 1903.

In the summer of 1921, Mrs. Brock began a project for Black people with a bible study in the basement of Phillip's Memorial Methodist Church. It was opened in October of 1921, at 1215 Grove Street. In 1926 the work was moved to 1401 College St. as a result of the generosity of Mary Caldwell donating a two-story brick home making a memorial to her father, a minister of the Baltimore Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church. The Bethlehem House had clubs for 200 participants from a wide range of age groups learning arts, crafts, recreational activities and providing a place for needed educational assistance. The Urban Renewal Program, highway and industrial additions, on the west side of Chattanooga included the site of the Bethlehem House. A building program for the West 38th Street site began the move of the ministry to the Alton Park Community.
Re: The Bethlehem Center, http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_101624.asp


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