Dixon Patch Viewfinder: Old Families Celebrate Connections With Each Other and Tremont Church

The Tremont Mite Society, a 148-year-old organization of women, raised most of the money to build the Tremont country church in 1871, which served the spiritual and social needs of pioneer farmers east of Dixon for many years. Even after the church was built, the Mite Society continued to help preserve and take care of the church (even after it was deeded to the Silveyville Cemetery District).

The Society, which is still active, hosts get-togethers every two years for families with connections to the farming area around the church and the church itself. Some of the rural roads in the area reflect their last names: Sikes, Becker, Runge, Maxwell and Bulkley.

These photos were taken on May 1, when both young and old attended a meeting inside the small church, and then stepped outside for cookies and visits to relatives' gravesites.

For more information on the church and the society, check out my in the Dixon Patch archives.  The church is located along Tremont Road not far from where it ends at Mace Blvd./County Road 104.