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
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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
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CHURCH INFO
Fairfield, Jackson,
Lauramie, Perry,
Randolph, Shelby,
Tippecanoe, Union,
Wabash, Washington,
Wayne & Wea.
Sheffield township
|
Denomination |
Church name |
Origin date |
Founder |
Buildings |
Significant events / cemeteries |
Address & possible |
|
Presbyterian |
Dayton Presbyterian, |
Rev. James A. Carnahan and others, preached in the 1830s; org. 1834; SE corner Walnut and Ricks |
Rev. James A. Carnahan (Father Carnahan) |
1st building (frame) 1834; 2nd building (frame w steeple) 1852; 3rd and present brick building 1899. (Yost) |
1st church building in township; Carnahan was a missionary who organized numerous churches in the Wabash Valley country |
Memorial Presbyterian Church |
|
Baptist |
|
met in Presbyterian building in Dayton for a time |
|
none |
|
Closed |
|
United Brethren |
Dayton United Brethren |
UB met in 1828 in home of William Baker, with Rev. John Duncan (DeHart) |
William Baker, with Rev. John Duncan |
Building erected about 1850 on Main St in Dayton (DeHart), then moved to. SE corner Main and Conj. (Sesqui; 1878); closed about 1895; torn down 1907 (Sesqui) |
Present house at the last location built by shop class at Dayton High School aft 1907 (Geo Rowe) |
Closed about 1985 |
|
Universalist |
Universalist Church |
in 1828 in schoolhouse in Dayton (DeHart) |
Rev. Hiram Curry |
Frame building erected 1839 under pastorate of Erasmus Manford; NW corner Main and Conj (1878); services held once a month; last service funeral in 1900 (Sesqui). |
Building remodeled into residence |
Closed 1900 |
|
Methodist Episcopal |
Dayton Methodist Episcopal Church |
class org. 1830 |
Rev. W. Wilson? |
ME services in 1830 with Rev. W. Wilson in schoolhouse, in Dayton; 1st building 1843, lots 8 & 11 Beara’s addition (“Real Estate”); 2nd buildingbrick 1866 NW corner Walnut and Pennsylvania, improved in 1908 (DeHart); 3rd bldg S of Dayton about 1975 |
First services in Township were Methodist, home of James Paige, in 1823, near Wyandott; ME Academy in 1860s |
No historical records; several church histories exist; Dayton United Methodist Church |
|
Methodist Episcopal |
about 1840?; Sec 33 (1878) on 775 E |
|
Frame building erected in 1840; By 1909 only used for preaching of funerals (DeHart) |
Salem Cemetery |
absorbed by Stockwell ME |
|
|
United Brethren |
Sec 35 (1878), next to Newcomer School at CR 1000 E and 700 S |
|
Brick building still standing; shows on 1866 and 1878 maps |
Funk/Newcomer cemetery is on the same road to the North. |
Closed about 1933 or 1934 per Fred Reichart; now building is used for farm storage |
|
|
Missionary Baptist |
Lauramie Missionary Baptist |
Sec 36 on N side of Newcastle Rd (1878). Adjoining cemetery (Tippecanoe; Doty), probably on the east?; shows on maps 1866-1900 |
|
(could this be the Baptist group that met in Dayton briefly?) building shows on 1878 map; new building 1888 brick, next to McDole home and adjoining the cemetery (S. McDole bio) |
McDole Cemetery AKA Lauramie Missionary Baptist Cemetery on N side of Newcastle Rd |
Closed by 1917, building gone (P McDole obit) |
|
Campbellite |
Boggs? |
1837? Newcastle Rd between 800 and 900 |
Site of church and tent meetings Boggs Cemetery was a Campbellite church cemetery, Sec. 27, est. 1837. (Tippecanoe) |
Boggs cemetery. Cemetery destroyed by 1940s |
Closed | |
|
Lutheran |
Wyandotte mission |
1852 at Wyandotte (Waltmann) |
Obadiah Brown of “First Church” in Lafayette (Waltmann) |
Probably short lived; not mentioned elsewhere. No bldg. |
Closed |
Bibliography use for Sheffield township 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.
DeHart, Richard P. Past and Present of Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Indianapolis: Bowen, 1909. 2 vols.
Doty, Lorraine. Graveyard Guardians. Tippecanoe Co, IN, Genforum response to my query. 26 Mar. 2009
Great Is Thy Faithfulness: 175 Years of Presbyterian Ministry in Tippecanoe County. Carolyn Moses, ed. 2003.
Hooker, Brainard. The First Century of Public Schools of Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Lafayette, IN: Haywood, 1917.
McDole, Elcy Holden. Obit., d. 24 May 1903. Accessed on www.findagrave.com
—, Pierce. Obit., d. 20 Aug 1917. Accessed on www.findagrave.com
—, Sampson. Bio, BR 607–08
“[Methodists] in Dayton, Indiana.” Unsigned ms. [author may be Rev. Israel Hatton]. Abt. 1939. 6-page ms. Original in DePauw University Archives. Received 27 Jan. 1993.
“Real Estate Transfers.” Lafayette Weekly Courier 11 May 1866.
Reichart, Fred. “Old Newcomer Church.” TIPCOA Newsletter No. 1 (2005): 14.
Rowe, George. Personal Interview. With Dotty Rowe Kinnun and Susan Yost Clawson, 1998.
Sesqui 75. Ed. Ruth Dilden and Bonnie Andrews. Dayton, IN: Sesquicentennial Committee, 1975.
Tippecanoe County Cemeteries data printout. Land Use subcommittee of Area Plan Commission. 2005.
Waltmann, Henry G. “The Struggle to Establish Lutheranism in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, 1826-1950.” Indiana Magazine of History 75.1 (Mar. 1979): 28-52.
Wheeler, Jesse. History of the Dayton United Methodist Church. Ed. and typed by Jessie Ritenour, 1979.
W., J. M. “History of the Dayton Methodist Episcopal Church.” 3-page ms. Abt. 1901. Original in DePauw University Archives. Received 27 Jan. 1993.
Yost, Kenneth E. 150 Years in the Life of Dayton Memorial Presbyterian Church. End ed. Dayton, IN: Dayton Memorial Presbyterian Church, 1999.
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