From the February 11, 1889 Brooklyn Daily Eagle:

“Danville, Ill.–Fannie Mann, Annie Lee, Douglas Cole, Jacob Grimes and wife, Charles Grimes and wife, were baptized by immersion yesterday, a few miles west of this city. The Rev. Mr. Hodge, of Caitlin, and John Lee, of this city, performed the ceremony.

A large hole had been cut in the ice, and the ministers took the thinly clad and shivering converts, one of whom is a chronic invalid and another a young mother, one at a time into the water, which was five feet deep. A blizzard and snowstorm was raging, and it was so cold that the ice formed on top of the pool and stiffened their garments as soon as they came out of the water. On completion of the ceremony they walked in their stocking feet a quarter of a mile through the fields to the nearest residence to change garments.”