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Mrs. Mary A. Grove Page was baptized in 1836 in a meeting held at Panther Creek, Woodford Co., Illinois, by those great pioneers, William Davenport, James Robeson and Jas. A. Lindsey. Her husband, A. N. Page, was baptized by Henry D. Palmer in 1844. Mrs. Page said that her husband was converted by a personal study of the Word, and when the minister came along he was baptized.
Immediately thereafter he began what would now be called cottage prayer-meetings. His neighbors were invited to his home and to the homes of two other families of the community, where they sang, studied the Bible, prayed and observed the Lord's Supper. With this start, Minister Palmer called him to the ministry. In this service he continued fifty years. He did missionary work in Woodford, Mason, Tazewell, Livingston and other counties. He led many people in central Illinois to Christ, and he was there known and loved by many.