Early Churches of Tippecanoe County Indiana
Members of the Tippecanoe
County Area area Genealogy Society are working on this list of early churches of
Tippecanoe County.
We hope to add photographs of each one. If you or someone you
know has a photograph of any Church below we would
love to post it. This database is an effort to help others find
genealogy resources in your search to find family information
and preserve the history. Please remember this information came
mainly from early history books of the past. The beginning
of many churches started in building of other denominations.
The main tables were created from TIPCOA members
Susan Y Clawson and Joyce Watterson. Thanks ladies, we
really appreciate your time and effort on this project.
Please send any additional
information or webpage's I can link to help us all learn the past history.
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CHURCH INFO
Fairfield, Jackson, Lauramie, Perry, Sheffield, Shelby, Tippecanoe, Union, Wabash, Washington, Wayne & Wea..
Randolph township
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Denomination |
Church name |
Origin date |
Founder |
Buildings |
Significant events / cemeteries |
Address & possible |
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Methodist Episcopal |
began in log school house (BR) |
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1830s circuit riders on Crawfordsville Circuit; 1st building 1835 (BR); then 1849 (Hatton); 3rd building 1875, was named House chapel for George House, who gave most of cost of building; remodeled and enlarged in 1918. (Fink; BR; Wood and Martin; Thompson); 1878 map shows the church on High St, about a block west of US 231. |
In the early days the men sat on one side of the central aisle, and the women sat on the other; lighting by tallow candles; (DeHart; Woods and Martin); Romney cemetery in Romney on CR 1150 S. |
Romney United Methodist |
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Presbyterian |
Romney Presbyterian |
1843 (DeHart; Sargent), |
Rev. Briar appt. 1848 (Rev. William W. Brier?) |
First preaching 1843 by Rev. James Carnahan and others; 1st building 1845 or 1846 (BR). 1878 map shows the church on Main St (US 231). 2nd building 1912. (DeHart; Thompson; Woods and Martin). |
Rev. WW Brier and wife, Elizabeth Naylor, left for CA about 1852 as missionaries for Am Home Miss Society. Other ministers: Daniel Cooper, shared with Glen Hall Presbyterian; Edgar L. Buchanan, 1909, shared with Spring Grove Presbyterian. |
Closed; dissolved 22 Mar 1998; records to Presbyterian Historical Society |
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Lutheran |
Romney Lutheran |
??? |
1941 Directory, but not mentioned in Waltmann |
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Bibliography use for Randolph Churches
1878 Atlas of Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
Knightstown, Ind.: Kingman Bros, 1878.
1941 Directory of Churches of
Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Tippecanoe County Public Library. Lafayette,
Indiana.
Biographical Record and Portrait Album of
Tippecanoe County, Indiana. [BR] Chicago: Lewis, 1888.
DeHart, Richard P. Past and Present of Tippecanoe
County, Indiana. Indianapolis: Bowen, 1909. 2 vols.
Fink, Ruby, “History of Romney,
Randolph Township.” 17 Feb. 1921. Transcribed by Diana McMaster. TIPCOA
Newsletter No. 1 (2008): 5-7.
Hatton, Israel. “History of Romney Methodist Episcopal Church.”
1919. Transcribed by Diana McMaster. TIPCOA Newsletter No. 1 (2008): 8-9.
“Romney Presbyterian.” Heritage of Faith. Lafayette Journal
and Courier Sept 1975. Tippecanoe County Public Library vertical file.
Sargent, Gladys B. Presbytery of Wabash Valley. Email correspondence
7 Apr 2009.
Thompson, Annie Clark Thompson, “Early Church History of Tippecanoe
County.” Lafayette, Indiana, Tippecanoe County,
1825-1925, by J. C. Burkle.
Lafayette, IN: The Chapter [DAR?]. 1926.
Woods, Paula, and Fern Martin. Traveling Through Tippecanoe
St. Louis, MO: Bradley, 1992.
Lafayette’s Best: “Lafayette, Indiana Churches.”
Website. http://www.lafayettesbest.com/category/churches.htm
Another area you will find help are the cemeteries that were connected. This list is also by township.
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