The Tidwell Chapel Church of Christ

By Virginia Fikes

The building in the photo was moved from Old Clover Hill in the mid 1920’s and served as a meeting place for the school children and for the church. Sarah Jane Tidwell remembers when the move took place. They carried it about a mile over the road in the Tidwell community and which has remained the Tidwell Chapel Church of Christ ever since.

The Clover Hill church and school was located behind the Floyd Dodd house near the Sprinkle Cemetery. Many students in the area attended school there including students such as, Ada McCollum Box, Fred McCaleb and others.

Tidwell Chapel School only went through the sixth grade. Some of the teachers who taught there were Vester Hollingsworth, Ola Hollingsworth, Minnie Caddell Miles and Mr. Raymond Hiten. The school stopped meeting there when the Hubbertville School opened but the Church kept meeting and has met there ever since. The old building was replaced with a newer one in the late 1950’s.

The land where the Tidwell Chapel Church is sitting was donated by Perry Tidwell son of Eden and Louise Tidwell. Perry was a grandson so John Tidwell. John was born May 25, 1811 in Georgia. He married Malinda Armstrong in 1836. They raised a large family that makes up the Tidwell Community today. John died November 1, 1888.

The men in the photo are Harrison Tidwell, Frank Tidwell and Buster Roby. Church is located in Fayette County, Alabama.