Adkins, Grace Evelyn Reese
Grace Evelyn Reese Adkins devoted most of her considerable energy and talents as a teacher, writer, composer, and minister to promoting Christian beliefs espoused by the Restoration Movement, also known as the Stone-Campbell Movement. In her pastoral work, she served as a part-time “community missionary” in Washington County and pioneered Christian summer camps for young people before she founded and led for more than a decade a Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) congregation in southern Fayetteville (Washington County) that embraced the fundamental tenets of her religious beliefs. Grace Reese was born in Mondovi, Wisconsin, on April 23, 1884, to Edwin Frank Reese and Ida Cook Reese, and she moved to Fayetteville with her father and siblings soon after her mother’s …
